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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided to bring an action against Greece in the European Court of Justice over its interpretation of the EU’s maritime cabotage regulation of 1992 and its application to the number of crew on board cruise and other vessels engaged in services between the Greek islands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL regulatory authorities have the power to block waste shipments from leaving EU ports or crossing their territories via road, rail or inland waterways, whether they represent the country sending a cargo, receiving it or being used for transshipment, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

Keith Nuthall
THE BRITISH government is facing a possible order to pay massive recurring fines of maybe Euro 100,000-a-day, because it has not notified the European Commission about how it has implemented a court order to pay VAT on privately operated road and bridge tolls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has accused the European Commission of putting the cart before the horse by attempting to begin a phasing out of tobacco growing subsidies, before a long term review on whether they should survive has taken place.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DEAL has been struck between the European Commission and the German publishing industry which will lift the threat of legal action by Brussels to fight collective embargoes imposed on book sales from foreign websites.

Indeed, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice because of its alleged failure to adopt anti-pollution programmes designed to prevent pollution in marine areas yielding shellfish. Brussels claims that under the shellfish directive, programmes should prevent pollution in the first place, while Irish legislation only covers clean-ups after problems have arisen.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has lent Euro 190 million to Danish electricity supplier and distributor Eltra, money that will be especially targeted on boosting renewable energy production and consumption in this environment-friendly country.

Eltra is a non-profit co-operative society wholly owned by 47 municipal and consumer-owned electricity distribution companies in Denmark.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE SOUTH African Department of Minerals and Energy and Shell South Africa have announced the signing of a letter of intent to develop a natural gas industry in the country’s southern Cape provinces. The two parties are to jointly evaluate the prospects of introducing natural gas from the Kudu fields in neighbouring Namibia; this assessment will include the transmission of gas, including the possible construction of a pipeline.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has adopted a new strategy for health and safety at work for 2002-2006, which would cover new types of workplace risk, such as bullying and violence at work and stress-related illnesses. The plan also seeks to develop office and factory risk prevention programmes.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
DAVID Whitehead, the South African textile company, has announced that it will not axe any jobs in its factories provided output was increased. The company is currently negotiating with the South African Clothing and Textile Worker’s Union (SACTWU) over wages and conditions of employment in a bid to prevent redundancies.…