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BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s much-heralded financial reforms will not be fully realised for at least another five years, possibly later, according to Jules Muis, the Commission’s former chief internal auditor.

“Although progress has been made, the Commission has a long way to go before it can present an image of being a world class administrative machine,” he told Accountancy Age during a brief return to the Belgian capital.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen has detailed the recent series of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases within a manifesto, issued to promote his campaign for election to the European Parliament on June 10. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen’s manifesto is actually a German and Dutch language book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PAN-EUROPEAN fleet managers and road transport companies will have to closely monitor disqualification histories of their drivers, because of their newly confirmed legal right to secure licences in other European Union (EU) countries after being banned in their home state.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH government should be censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for excessively restricting hazardous waste exports from the Netherlands when it is earmarked for energy generation in another country via incineration, an ECJ advocate general has advised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXEMPTIONS from mineral levies paid on phosphate and nitrogen fertilisers in the Netherlands for garden centres or glasshouses have been confirmed as breaking the European Union (EU) nitrates directive by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The Netherlands’ MINAS system is based on the assumption that glasshouse flowers and crops take up 460 kg phosphates and 800 kg nitrogen per hectare per year, “considerably higher than for outdoor crops”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPANY and private car drivers moving from one European Union (EU) Member State to another should not be required to pay fresh registration taxes when they change their country of residence, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MARATHON by name and nature, the European Commission has closed a gas network access case involving the Norwegian subsidiary of American gas producer Marathon, after negotiations stretching from the 1990’s. The deal, involving French and German gas companies Gaz de France (GdF) and Ruhrgas, allows the Commission to close a competition file that has also sparked pipeline access deals with German companies BEB and Thyssengas, plus Dutch company Gasunie.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has prioritised measures within an EU action plan improving developing countries’ commodities trade, especially cotton. The first steps taken by the European Commission and member states should include developing trade flows through regional deals such as EU-ACP (African, Caribbean, Pacific) agreements, and promoting commodity-based public-private partnerships.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and 16 Caribbean countries have launched negotiations to strike a 2008 trade deal, that should boost rum exports into Europe. The spirit is already the eastern Caribbean’s largest export to the EU, (11 per cent of sales – worth around Euro 320 million in 2003), with import quota restrictions removed from 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown down the gauntlet over the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities, voting to challenge the deal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…