Search Results for: European Court of Justice

BY ALAN OSBORN
WE know that irresponsible sea-sand dredging can led to coastal erosion, threatening beaches and ecological balance and even the livelihoods of whole sea-side or fishing communities. Yet there is today an unprecedented demand for sand as a building material.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s transport committee has called for amendments to proposed European Union regulations on air safety. MEP’s want to enshrine in law the European Civil Aviation Conference’s Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft procedure, making the monitoring of non-EU aircraft, notably those from developing countries, systematic and transparent within every EU Member State.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on live bivalve molluscs as part of a new package of hygiene measures that are designed to step up food safety. The proposal identifies steps required by national competent health authorities to ensure the safety of these products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is signalling a possible move from its ban on hybrid or inter-specific vines being used in appellation brands by paying for a research project into their quality and disease resistance, “taking into account all the scientific elements in order to provide a basis for decision.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is lending El Salvador US$18.2 million to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and accessibility of its judicial system. The central American country is emerging from a long civil war, which was marked by human rights abuses and a lack of due process.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE ROMANO Prodi-led European Commission has received a mid-term report from senior environmental groups within the European Union and it contains a mixture of bouquets and brickbats. It written by the Green 8, a coalition that includes the European Environmental Bureau, the European Federation for Transport and Environment and Friends of the Earth Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties are likely to be imposed on three Ukrainian steel tube producers when they export product to the European Union, after they told the European Commission that they no longer wanted to be bound by promises to maintain a minimum price level for their products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission because of its failure to scrap a law insisting that labels on foodstuffs imported into France must be written in the French language. Brussels says this breaks EU free trade rules.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US automakers have hit a setback in their attempt to stave off soaring

legal

costs over thousands of asbestos-related lawsuits.

An appeals court in Philadelphia has thrown

out a request by several companies to be named as ‘related parties’

in the bankruptcy of auto-parts maker Federal-Mogul Global Inc.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE VANCOUVER Airport Authority has won an appeal in the British Columbia Court of Appeal in a case involving local residents seeking compensation for effects of aircraft on a new runway, opened in 1996

Larry Berg, CEO of the Vancouver International Airport Authority, said: “The court has recognised the principle in law that all aspects of vital public works for the community at large are deemed authorised by the government that orders them.”…