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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has loosened the proposed emissions directive on outdoors mobile equipment, exempting chainsaws and granting more generous emission limits and longer compliance deadlines to manufacturers of generators, pumps and the engines for snow-throwers. MEP’s however accepted the rest of the package, which aims to cut pollution caused by machines such as lawnmowers and hedge trimmers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST cracks are appearing in what has so far been a remarkably solid public front over the European Union project to send global positioning satellites into orbit, with the European Parliament expressing concern about its financial viability.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SOME thirty years after the idea was first proposed, the creation of a European Company has become a reality. This new corporate entity will be authorised to operate throughout the 15 European Union countries under a single set of management, reporting and legal rules which will be binding throughout the EU.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE THREE important central European tobacco-growing countries of Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary will be able to claim production subsidies from Brussels when they join the European Union on the same basis as existing EU producers, European Commission officials have confirmed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government is to be taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its refusal to allow medical laboratories established in another Member State, to open a branch or agency in France.

Brussels is also asking judges to tell Paris to scrap regulations contained within its national law, (Decree No.…

Keith Nuthall
DETAILS of the European Commission’s plans to reduce the contrasts between tax regimes in EU Member States have been released, with Brussels publishing its policy paper “Towards an Internal Market without Tax Obstacles.”

As predicted in Accountancy Age, the Commission is aiming in the long term for the creation of a consolidated tax base for businesses operating across the EU, with the report highlighting the 30 per cent variations in national company tax rates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has told France that it should amend its mining code, or face possible legal action at the European Court of Justice, as it does not allow companies from other EU Member States to secure French licences.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH American Tobacco has won a legal battle to secure documents from the European Commission, on the EU Committee on Excise Duties decision that expanded tobacco should attract duty. The Commission fought BAT’s application, claiming that EU committee papers were confidential under EU regulations, because publication would inhibit members from being frank.…

Keith Nuthall
Ministers also struck a compromise over the controversial question of the location of tribunals or courts resolving any dispute, whether they should be in the country of the consumer or of the company. Abandoning Commission proposals that it should be that of the company, ministers agreed that the consumer should decide, much to the irritation of FEDMA, the European Direct Marketing Association.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given the go ahead for the British government to grant Euro 10 million, (Pounds 6.4 million), in state aid to two coal mines, operating losses for 2000 and 2001. The money will go to Longannet Mine of Mining (Scotland) Ltd, (Pounds 5.4 million), and Aberpergwm Colliery of Anthracite Mining Ltd, Wales, (Pounds 1 million).…