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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) internal market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has indicated a willingness to compromise with opponents of a proposed EU directive that would force listed companies to appoint in-house audit committee. Speaking to a conference on European corporate governance, in Luxembourg City, McCreevy recognised the critics, whom he said had “woken up somewhat late in the day”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is facing yet another round of legal action from the European Commission over its failure to abide by European Union (EU) environmental legislation affecting fish farming. The Commission has now decided to take Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to stage sufficiently rigorous environmental impact assessments on fish farms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has been censured again by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over lax pollution controls of its lakes, rivers and sea inlets, many exploited by fish farms. The ECJ said Ireland had failed to comply with a 1976 European Union directive on ‘discharging dangerous substances into the aquatic environment’, by not controlling enough pollutants or protecting enough lakes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DRUG officials in the European Union (EU) have confessed to being such cultural dinosaurs, it was five years after reports about ecstasy emerged in youth, music and lifestyle magazines before they started collecting and reporting data on the drug.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has called on the European Commission to frame an action plan on simplifying red tape for the fishing industry, “reducing their bureaucratic workload and the restrictions that bear down on fishermen”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is being taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its failure to order environmental impact assessments of pig rearing units before they are set up. The result of this, said the European Commission, which has launched the action is that “the public and the environment may suffer nuisance and harm”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has released plans to lend Denmark’s DONG up to Pounds 60 million to help fund the construction of a 90MW offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, off Barrow-in-Furness. The planned power station should produce 305GWh annually, equalling the power consumption of more than 65,000 households.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured the Irish government for committing what it calls “general and persistent breaches of the (European Union) waste directive”. Judges said Dublin’s failure to introduce an effective permit system for waste handlers had sparked uncontrolled dumping, to which it sometimes turned a blind eye.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWAY has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the WTO, where it is protesting against the imposition of temporary safeguard tariff quotas, minimum import prices and demanding of securities by the EU to protect the Scottish and Irish salmon industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRISH Sugar owner Greencore’s legal bid to force the European Commission to pay Euro 154,892 interest on a refunded fine has an additional lease of life, with the European Court of Justice rejecting a claim by the European Commission of inadmissibility.…