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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is exploring alternative conservation methods to protect EU cod after the independent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea recommended closing some EU cod fisheries to prevent stocks collapsing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PORT of Durrës, in Albania – one of Europe’s poorest countries – is to receive a much needed financial shot in the arm of Euro 17 million from the European Investment Bank, which will pay for the rehabilitation and upgrading of cargo handling facilities and quays.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accepted a Greek government request that local small dealers in recyclable waste such as glass, paper, board, scrap iron and steel and suppliers of any size in non-ferrous metals, should be exempted from paying VAT in Greece, because of tax evasion concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the rulebook of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming all but written, the European Commission has been considering innovative ways regarding waste management in which it can help reduce the EU’s production of greenhouse gases.

A new paper written for the Commission’s directorate general by consultants AEA Technology proposes the segregation of municipal waste, so that materials such as paper, metals, textiles and plastics can be recycled, and decomposable refuse be composted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FLEXIBILITY is required in the regime setting the European Union’s minimum excise duty rates for tobacco, says the European Parliament, which has voted for changes to a proposed duty floor of 57 per cent of the retail sale price and Euro 70 for 1000 cigarettes tabled by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accepted a request by the Greek government that local small scrap and waste iron and steel dealers and all Greece-based suppliers of non-ferrous metals, should be exempted from paying VAT, because of concerns that they are abusing the tax system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will make Euro 11 million, (Pounds 6.73 million), available for five regional programmes of innovative actions in Britain, funds that can be tapped by local authorities. The benefiting regions are the east Midlands (Euro 2.33 million), eastern England (Euro 2.27 million), north-east England (Euro 1.1 million), Wales, (2.83 million) and Yorkshire & Humberside, (Euro 2.75 million).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a new Euro 149.2 million financing scheme under its Interreg programme, which can help local and regional authorities deal with problems in border areas. In this case, the Commission has identified the North Sea as a frontier zone, with money being made available until 2006 for transnational co-operation between coastal areas in Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW report from the European Environment Agency has tried to explain why there is indeed a wide gulf between Member States’ performance on renewables; for instance, Britain has more wind than Germany, but significantly less wind power electricity generation and Greece has failed to develop solar panels as quickly as fellow southern Mediterranean EU Member State Spain.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN textile producers have warned that their industry faces thousands of job losses as smuggled used garments flood the Indonesian market. The past few months have seen a rise in smuggled goods from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States and some European countries.…