Search Results for: European Parliament

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government of the European Union taken unprecedented steps to crackdown on the financing of terrorist groups, following the attacks in the United States that have sparked the worldwide ongoing emergency military and financial response.

Notably, the public pressure resulting from the disasters have helped to break the political logjam stalling the agreement of long-debated reforms to the European money laundering directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has until February 28 next year to implement a World Trade Organisation ruling that it should dismantle tanning industry controls on the export of raw and semi-tanned bovine hides, an WTO arbitrator has ruled.

The European Union – which brought the case in the first place – had called for arbitration after failing to reach agreement with Buenos Aires over the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEVELOPMENT of sophisticated electronic devices embedded within every-day objects would be a priority of the oncoming Sixth Framework Programme of EU research, under detailed plans being drawn up by the European Commission. Speaking at an IST information day in Brussels, information society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen said that the studies would assist a “radical shift from the current PC based systems and from the keyboard, mouse and screen towards almost invisible technology of natural and effortless use.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE SPANISH provinces of Valencia, Cuenca and Teruel have been freed from restrictions on the export of live pigs and porcine semen arising out of classical swine fever, the European Commission has decided. Live pig exports will only be permitted over the next 30 days if they come from CSF-free holdings however.…

BY KATE REW
AN ESTIMATED 700,000 farmed salmon in Maine have been killed since March this year in a bid to control the spread of a deadly fish virus, infectious salmon anaemia (ISA). It is the first time that the disease has been discovered in US salmon farms although it has already affected both the European and Canadian fisheries.…

Keith Nuthall
TIGHTER security measures are to be introduced in airports across the European Union in the wake of the terrorist destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre. The reforms were ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers for transport, sitting in emergency session, and will inevitably lead to some inconvenience and additional delays for business travellers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LARGEST meat processing company in Poland could receive a Euro 12.5 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Its board has been asked to approve plans to lend money to finance the transfer of best practice know-how to Sokolow SA, to expand its poultry business and promote exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed takeover of SSM Coal BV, of the Netherlands, by Germany’s Rheinbraun Brennstoff GmbH, concluding after an inquiry that the deal would not create competition problems in the EU petcoke market.

Rheinbraun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German RWE Group, distributes coal and other solid fuels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL mining companies are to find it easier to work in China, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT of the cost of European Commission plans to introduce legislation to control the emission of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons has been released by Brussels. The study examines the benefits to human health of reducing concentrations of PAH’s in the air to meet different possible limit values, and theh economic costs involved in meeting them.…