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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Austria and Finland to the European Court of Justice for failing to adopt an older (and looser) directive on GM food. This includes rules on post-marketing monitoring, public information, plus labelling and traceability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Austria, Belgium, Greece and Italy to the European Court of Justice over their alleged failure to implement a 1999 directive on minimum welfare standards for laying hens.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE deal over third party access to gas pipelines has been agreed between German joint venture BEB and the European Commission, leading to Brussels closing its competition investigation into the company’s refusal to allow Norway’s Marathon to pump gas into its infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REFORM of the European Union’s common agricultural policy regarding sugar production is a priority of the EU’s June-December Italian presidency. Italian agriculture minister Giovanni Alemanno said Italy would push reform based on “in-depth studies.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked by the European Commission to pay Italy Euro 47.6 million emergency aid from the European Union Solidarity Fund (for large disasters). Euro 30.8 million would finance urgent measures such as temporary accommodation following earthquakes in Molise and Apulia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN men first flew into space, they were moved by the deep blue of Earth’s oceans; maybe they would be horrified at this satellite picture of a dying sea and the white desert replacing its retreating shores. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea has split into two and its larger portion has been judged doomed by many environmentalists who warn it may dry out completely by 2020.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW Italian presidency of the European Union has announced that its top key energy priorities – until it leaves office in December – will include the passage into law of the proposed directives on co-generation, (alongside legislation on oil and gas stocks).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to stage an environmental impact assessment into the establishment of an intensive pig breeding farm at Perd’e Cuaddu, Sardinia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW Italian presidency of the European Union has announced that a key policy priority, (until it leaves office in December), will be the systematic knitting of EU energy policies with environmental considerations. It has already staged a meeting of European energy and environment ministers on this issue, including a debate on whether energy liberalisation has harmed or helped the environment.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE REFORM of the European Union’s common agricultural policy regarding cotton growing is a priority of the EU’s Italian presidency until (December), said Italy’s agriculture minister Giovanni Alemanno. He told the EU Council of Ministers that Italy would push reform “on the basis of in-depth studies of the impact of the planned measures on the markets concerned.”…