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Keith Nuthall
INSURANCE companies will be able to reduce their exposure to natural and technological disasters within the European Union and eastern Europe in the future, assuming EU ministers agree plans to establish a central contingency emergency aid fund commanding between Euro 500,000 and Euro 1 billion; it would be raided by Member States and eastern European countries wanting to join the EU that fall victim to such disasters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has given himself a tough job; trying to persuade dairy farmers it is time to expose themselves to unfettered world markets when prices are at rock bottom, while facing hostility to further CAP reform from some European Union governments, notably France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOUGH restrictions applied by the Austrian and Swedish governments on the use of cadmium in their territories are likely to be scrapped, after the European Court of Justice ruled that amendments to EU legislation permitting them to retain these rules were actually illegal.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has ordered Germany to stop blocking the

sale of the Austrian drink Original Schwedenbitter by claiming it to be a

medicinal product which requires special authorisation.

Original Schwedenbitter is sold in Austria without restriction as a

herb-based alcoholic beverage but is traditionally bought in Germany as a

cure for several illnesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a European Union book-pricing directive protecting existing national systems from being undermined by cross-border sales from Member States which have no such controls.

In a formal motion, it has called upon the European Commission to propose this law, although the EU bureaucracy can ignore the appeal if it chooses; under EU treaties, the parliament cannot itself table legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL regulatory authorities have the power to refuse to allow waste shipments to leave EU ports or cross their territories via inland waterways, whether they represent the country sending a cargo, receiving it or being used for transshipment, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL regulatory authorities in the European Union have the power to decide whether the cross-border transport of waste to infill a disused mine is, in effect, underground landfilling, and so should be subject to tight EU rules regulating such shipments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL regulatory authorities have the power to block waste shipments from leaving EU ports or crossing their territories via road, rail or inland waterways, whether they represent the country sending a cargo, receiving it or being used for transshipment, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DEAL has been struck between the European Commission and the German publishing industry which will lift the threat of legal action by Brussels to fight collective embargoes imposed on book sales from foreign websites.

Indeed, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESIDENCY qualification for directors of companies established in the Alpine Principality of Liechtenstein, set up to help its authorities fight abuse of its liberal business laws, including money laundering, has been declared illegal.

The European Free Trade Area Court has ruled that the regulation discriminates against citizens of other EFTA countries, (Switzerland, Iceland and Norway), breaching fair trade treaty commitments made by Liechtenstein on joining the association.…