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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal investigation into state aid provided by the Spanish government for the restructuring of copper, gold and silver mining company Minas de Rio Tinto SAL, in Huelva.

In 2000, Madrid guaranteed loans of ESP 1,500 million, (Euro 9 million), which were linked to a restructuring plan to turn the company around.…

Keith Nuthall
A REARGUARD action is being fought by the European Commission to save its ambitious proposals to impose a deadline of 2005 on the complete liberalisation of the EU electricity market. Following pressure from the French government, EU governments have agreed to rule the idea out, preferring a looser deadline, although this has yet to be formally agreed at the Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN competition commissioner Mario Monti has complained that his hands are being tied by the weakness of European liberalisation legislation, a lack of will at Member State level to force through reforms and also the appetite of big players to press ahead with acquisitions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal investigation into state aid provided by the Spanish government for the restructuring of copper, gold and silver mining company Minas de Rio Tinto SAL, in Huelva.

In 2000, Madrid guaranteed loans of ESP 1,500 million, (Euro 9 million), which were linked to a restructuring plan to turn the company around.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has tried to make up for its failure to strike fishing access deal with Morocco by forging an improved agreement with its north African neighbour Mauritania which Brussels claims its “the most important with a third country” that it has made.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating whether Brazil has failed to stick to a promise to scrap a minumum-price regime on certain textile products, which had restricted the amount of EU exports that could enter its market.

World Trade Organisation disputes proceedings had been launched by Brussels because of the problem, which especially affected ‘home textiles,’ such as mattress ticking, carpets and rugs, with Belgian and Spanish producers being the hardest hit.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the European Court of Justice to fine the Spanish government Euro 45,600-a-day, until it complies with an earlier ECJ ruling that it should implement the directive regarding its inland bathing waters. The fine would be levied until Madrid convinced the court that it had raised water quality levels to a sufficient level, as required under the bathing water directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned Glaxo Wellcome’s dual pricing system in Spain, where the company requires Spanish wholesalers to pay a higher price for pharmaceuticals, which they export to other Member States, than when reselling the same products locally.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Morocco have failed to strike an agreement which would allow Spanish and Portuguese fishing boats to take catches in Moroccan waters, bringing to an unsuccessful end six months of detailed discussions. The result is that the previous agreement, which expired in 1999, and which allowed 500 European boats to exploit catches including tuna and shrimp, is not expected to be renewed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of Spanish shipping lines have failed in their legal bid to overturn conditions imposed by their national government, for the right to ply routes from the mainland to island destinations. The European Court of Justice has ruled that Madrid acted legally by refusing to allow a market free-for-all in Spanish waters.…