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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment of Euro 50 million in grants over six years to help the South African government strengthen its primary health care, in particular in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The first Euro 25 million for the 2002-2004 will be allocated to the South Africa’s Department of Health, the remainder will be paid in 2004, subject to positive external review.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXPERT commission established by the Council of Europe has made detailed recommendations about how to fight money laundering in three east European countries where criminals have exploited weak state structures to hide their illicit profits: Albania, Georgia and Moldova.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European Union directive has been proposed that would harmonise technical standards for the manufacture of forestry tractors and trailers, establishing a type approval procedure enabling these vehicles to be sold anywhere in the EU. Ministers have also been asked by the European Commission to extend similar technical harmonisation regulations to components.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHAT could be more straightforward or fairer, you might think, than the European Union’s veterinary and phytosanitary agreements with non-member countries?

The idea is that each party pledges that the food it exports to the other – be it derived from animals or plants – meets the requirements of its own food safety legislation and that this is then taken on trust by the receiving country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NORWEIGAN government is to conduct a three-year review of its subsidised shipping service providing a lifeline for 34 ports from Bergen to Kirkenes, in the far north, near the Russian border. The move follows an agreement struck with the surveillance authority of the European Free Trade Area, (EFTA), which polices the European Economic Area rules by which Norway must abide.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s ambitious Galileo satellite navigation project has been given a vote of approval by the European Parliament but the assembly also crucially said that there should be no intimate private sector involvement in the Pounds 2.5 billion programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a significant legal obstacle preventing the French government going ahead with plans to spend national state aid on subsidising start-up short sea shipping runs.

Brussels has ordered that such grants would be legal under European Union state aid regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ABILITY of the European Commission to effectively monitor the European Union insurance sector has been called into question by MEP’s, who have admitted being “astonished” after receiving official complaints about irregularities at Lloyd’s of London dating back 20 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING and textile designs are to receive uniform legal protection across the European Union in the future because of the agreement by the EU Council of Ministers of a new Regulation on the subject; it accords designers legal protection from the theft of their ideas, short of patent or copyright protection, but significant enough to deter plagiarists.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has suspended anti-dumping duties on imports of cotton-type bed linen from Egypt, ahead of the February 28 date when they were due to lapse, signalling it is unlikely to press for their renewal.…