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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union (EU) countries to further liberalise their professions, including legal specialists, although a Communication’ policy paper praises Britain for its reforms. The UK “is making good progress” across the board in fighting restrictive practices regarding profession entry, fees and advertising, along with Denmark and the Netherlands, said Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union (EU) countries to further liberalise their professions, including accountancy, although a detailed report praises Britain for its reforms. The UK “is making good progress” across the board in fighting restrictive practices regarding profession entry, fees and advertising, along with Denmark and the Netherlands, said Brussels.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE METEROLOGICAL Office, the UK’s national weather service, the Met Office, has launched a new version of its satellite-distribution weather advice service. The new upgraded SADIS2G (second generation) is being rolled out to air traffic control units (ATCs) and will gradually supersede the existing SADIS system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured the Belgian government for failing to abide by European Union (EU) legislation requiring it to protect its national water supplies from farm pollution. In a comprehensive ruling, the ECJ said Belgium had clearly breached directive 91/676/EEC on the protection of water against nitrates from agricultural sources.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
A FEW recent days on the edge of the Saronic Sea, due West of Athens, is all that was needed to renew the conviction Greece is the European Union’s most sumptuous cliché.

In this, the country is abundant.…

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 EUROPEAN Commission’s directorate general (DG) for enterprise and industry is asking accounting and audit firms to tender for Euro 5 million’s worth of business in Brussels. The Commission wants to finance independent audits of contractors benefiting from DG enterprise and industry funding.…

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
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
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.…