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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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve an updated list of technology whose export should be tightly restricted because of concerns that in the wrong hands, they could be used to develop military and terrorist weapons. European Commission officials have been reviewing the EU’s list of so-called dual-use goods for more than a year and Brussels now formally proposed its new catalogue of controlled exports.…

Keith Nuthall
TOP officials at the European Union’s Council of Ministers headquarters in Brussels will this month be studying the text of the European Commisson’s proposed regulation of aviation security that was drawn up in the wake of the terrorist tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Union countries will have to ensure that at least two per cent of their transport fuel supplies are in the form of bio-fuels – made from sugar beet, cereals, maize and rape-seed – by 2005, under a European Commission directive to be proposed very shortly, said Franz Fischler, agriculture Commissioner.…

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 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.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONG struggle to agree EU rules on working time is set to be extended well into next year and maybe beyond, with the European Commission proposing the replacement of the existing planned directive, even before it has been agreed by a conciliation committee representing Member States and the European Parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REVIEW of European safety laws designed to prevent industrial explosions – such as that which recently ripped through the Atofina fertiliser plant in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people – is to be launched by a specialist EU committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU environment ministers have backed the European Parliament in rejecting an ‘averaging and banking’ system within a proposed directive limiting emissions from outdoors mobile equipment, such as lawnmowers, which would have allowed manufacturers to sell dirty machines, if they made improvements to other models.…

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.…