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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to pay for a new software system, computers and other information technology equipment to improve the functioning of the judiciary in the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. The EU aid – worth in total Euro 1.9 million – follows a report detailing serious inadequacies in the legal system in Macedonia, including the fact that judges there had to deal with about 800 cases annually compared to a maximum of 300 in the EU itself.…

BY MARK ROWE
ONE of Russia’s leading health and beauty retailers, Pharmacy Chain 36.6, has acquired 73 regional outlets in the southern (Russian Federation) Republic of Bashkortostan. The purchases involve the takeover by 36.6 of the local Leko pharmacy chain in the republic, including 30 stores in the capital city of Ufa and stores in 17 other cities across Bashkortostan.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD WIDE Fund for Nature (WWF) has warned that the eight eastern European countries joining the European Union in May are failing to exploit their potential renewable energy capacity, making it harder for some to comply with the EU’s renewable energy directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEAT consumption in eastern European countries joining the European Union (EU) this May generally fell by 10-20 per cent during the 1990s, falling significantly below per capita consumption in the existing EU, according to a European Commission report.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESERVE anti-dumping duties against two Romanian producers of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel are to be re-imposed, even though they had last year been declared illegal by the European Court of Justice.

Judges had ruled last January that the European Commission made administrative errors when fixing the level of protection required for European Union (EU) producers from exports made by Petrotub SA and Republica SA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) is a step closer to launching its first case, with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni referring the terror wrought by his county’s rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
HOSPITAL consultants began industrial action across the Irish Republic yesterday as part of an escalating protest against the imposition of a new state scheme for insuring medical malpractice. Senior doctors have withdrawn all administrative duties and will stop all other duties, except emergency work, if the dispute over the so-called ‘enterprise liability’ cover is not resolved within three weeks.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GAP Inc has joined a group of American corporations that have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The clothing retailer, which also owns the Banana Republic and Old Navy brands, last month signed on to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders’, a group that now numbers 54.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of exemptions from the European Union’s (EU) new directive imposing minimum rates of energy taxation on coal have been proposed by the European Commission for seven of the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in May.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS have been raised by eastern and central European environmental groups about the possible worsening of drinking water quality that could be caused by the construction of the planned Danube-Oder-Elbe canal. The Czech Republic’s Friends of the Earth branch is leading green groups from Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia in pressing the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to avoid including the project in its priority list for funding from the trans-European transport networks (TENs) scheme.…