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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and Morocco have failed to strike an agreement which would allow Spanish and Portuguese fishing boats to take catches in Moroccan waters, bringing to an unsuccessful end six months of detailed discussions. The result is that the previous agreement, which expired in 1999, and which allowed 500 European boats to exploit catches including tuna and shrimp, is not expected to be renewed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEMBER States of the European Union reduced their emissions of the six key greenhouse gases by four per cent between 1990 and 1999, according to a report from the European Environment Agency. This takes the EU half way towards achieving its Kyoto target of reducing emissions of these gases to 8 per cent below their 1990 level by the years 2008-2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Euro 2.5 billion Galileo programme to set up a global positioning system by 2008 is firmly back on track in spite of concerns expressed by Britain, Germany and others about the cost.

Telecom ministers of the 15 EU countries have now pledged finance of up to Euro 100 million, (Pounds 60 million), for 2001 and have agreed to take a decision on a further Euro 450 million, (Pounds 270 million) at the end of the year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH supermarket giant Tesco is likely to win a European Court of Justice case over the parallel trading of Levis Jeans.

The preliminary ruling from the Advocate General of the ECJ ruled that the trademark holder should not have the power to dictate where retailers purchase their goods.…

BY MONICA DOBIE AND KEITH NUTHALL
DAIMLER Chrysler Canada and Ford Canada have been trying to persuade the Canadian federal government to replace the now defunct 1965 Canada/United States auto pact with a system of assistance that would not be so open to a challenge at the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHARTERED Institution of Water and Environmental Management has welcomed the European Commission’s white paper proposing that an environmental liability regime is set up within the EU, where polluters are held financially responsible for damage to eco-systems that they cause.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has appealed for information technology research teams to become involved in a project to identify common content characteristics of the most internationally popular European Union-designed websites.

Its directorate general for Information Society said that it wanted to “benchmark availability and usage of European digital content,” focusing on sites receiving the most hits in the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland and the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DIRECTIVE to improve energy efficiency in new and renovated buildings, (above 1,500 square metres), by up to 22 per cent in the year 2010, has been proposed by the European Commission. It would order national integrated minimum energy performance standards for each building type, covering insulation, heating, ventilation, lighting, orientation, heat recovery, and renewable energy sources.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is be investigating trends in Syrian cotton exports which have been booming since 1996, when sales went from almost nil in 1996 to 10 per cent of the EU’s total cotton yarn imports in 2000.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH supermarket giants Tesco and Costco are likely to win a European Court of Justice case over the parallel trading of Levis Jeans.

The preliminary ruling from the Advocate General of the ECJ ruled that the trademark holder should not have the power to dictate where retailers purchase their goods.…