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KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the difficulty that the British haulage industry has in recruiting new drivers, the last thing that it needs – some might say – would be to make it harder for would-be haulers to get behind the steering wheel and drive.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has formally approved reforms to the European aid system for Greek cotton production. Ministers sanctioned an increase by two per cent to a planned 50 per cent reduction to the guide price affecting subsidies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SHORTAGE in veterinary medicines for meat and dairy livestock should be tackled by a pan-European licensing system, enabling animal pharmaceuticals to move more freely between Member States, the European Parliament has claimed. In a resolution on the problem, MEP’s backed short term plans from the European Commission to make more drugs available, after EU legislation capping residues of veterinary medicines in meat and dairy products led to the number of medicines being produced falling more steeply than had been expected.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will review the European Cosmetics Directive, with a view to making it simpler to understand and operate. Officials are to identify provisions that are “burdensome and costly for users,” which can be scrapped without compromising the overall objectives of the law.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating whether Brazil has failed to stick to a promise to scrap a minumum-price regime on certain textile products, which had restricted the amount of EU exports that could enter its market.

World Trade Organisation disputes proceedings had been launched by Brussels because of the problem, which especially affected ‘home textiles,’ such as mattress ticking, carpets and rugs, with Belgian and Spanish producers being the hardest hit.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EU Council of Ministers has agreed to impose definitive countervailing duties on imports of synthetic polyester fibres from Australia and Indonesia, which will prevent European producers facing unfair competition because of subsidies paid to their rivals in these Asia-Pacific countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has established a Clean Air for Europe programme, which includes a commitment to create an integrated anti-air pollution strategy by 2004. It will promote the collection of detailed information on the problem, which will be the basis for decisions supposedly based on sound science.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is to fund a Euro 120,000 research project examining ways of further reducing carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles, (category N1). Brussels has called on companies and think tanks to bid for the contract to carry out the studies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has demanded the immediate introduction of

a uniform driving “attestation” for drivers from non-EU countries using roads in the EU. MEP’s said that this should certify that the driver met the employment conditions of the country where he or she was operating.…

KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL governments within the EU will come under political pressure from the European Commission later this year, in a bid to persuade them to harmonise their vehicle excise duty rates.

Brussels is to publish a Communication, (a formal discussion paper), on the subject, which it says will “examine the very different levels of vehicle tax in Member States and the problems which these differences can create for the free movement of goods in the (EU) Internal Market.”…