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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE BRITISH government is confident that it will avoid legal action from the European Commission at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has formally warned the UK and five other European Union (EU) about not implementing a key accounting directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSURANCE industry is being asked to comment on European Commission plans to table a European Union (EU) ‘floods directive’ telling member states to limit the potential risks posed by floods and plan for dealing with any that arise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIUM has joined the growing list of European Union (EU) member states censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to properly police EU fishing rules in its waters. And again, as with France, Ireland, Denmark and others, the Belgians have been found breaking the Common Fishing Policy (CFP) in a number of ways over the years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE BELGIUM-BASED leading international brewer Interbrew has expressed satisfaction at a ruling by the Court of First Instance (CFI) of the European Court of Justice to uphold fines imposed on three Luxembourg breweries for anti-competitive behaviour during the 1990s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BELGIAN government has lost an attempt to charge tobacco manufacturers and shippers VAT on cigarettes stolen before they can be shipped from a warehouse to a distributor or retailer. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that under the European Union’s (EU) sixth VAT directive, EU member states cannot charge VAT on stolen tobacco goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the abolition of registration taxes that it says impede the transfer of vehicles to the 16 European Union (EU) member states that impose them. Britain is not among the countries concerned, but they include Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria and Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHARITY may begin at home for many people, but as far as diagnosing exotic foreign diseases is concerned, it is far better begun abroad. The growth in diseases spread round the world by mass air travel, such as viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) and SARS, led in 1998 to the creation of a European Network for Diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases (ENIVD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European Commission report has raised concerns that while efforts are being made by European Union (EU) institutions, not enough done to raise people in work out of poverty. It says that while “low pay is obviously an important risk factor…being low-skilled and remaining in unstable and often part-time employment, can also lead to poverty”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S coming up to 18 months since the French tobacco industry was hit by the last of a triple whammy of excise tax increases over a single year and it seems a reasonable moment to take stock. The three tax increases – 10% in January 2003, 20% in November 2003 and 10% in January 2004 – were part of a health drive by Jacques Chirac’s government, worried by the continued popularity of smoking among young people among other things.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 26.1 million on 26 programmes promoting the sale within the EU of organic food products, olive oil, milk and cheese, ham, fruit and vegetables, plus some drinks products. There will be matching funding from participating countries Britain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus.…