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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has referred to the Belgian competition authorities six merger cases involving the sale by Flanders local authorities of gas and electricity supply services to the country’s energy giant Electrabel. The councils have been forced to offload the services to comply with Belgium’s electricity and gas liberalisation legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is investing Euro 7 million of new equity into in Dalkia Termika, the Polish subsidiary of France-based Dalkia International, which will make a further investment as a result. Its Polish business will develop energy installations in Poland, especially district heating projects, making them more efficient.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is putting itself in a position to reap the economic rewards of developing renewable energy technologies ahead of the United States, an American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting has been told. “Europe has made a major commitment to renewable energy and is leading the United States in deploying it,” said Allan Hoffman, a renewables specialist and senior advisor to Winrock International’s Clean Energy Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRIVATE financing of Euro 235.9 million will be combined with loans of Euro 112.2 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to help rehabilitate and improve the environmental performance of Bulgaria’s privately owned lignite-fired 840 MW power plant Maritza East III.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HEARING of the European Parliament’s fisheries committee on conservation catch restrictions tabled by the European Commission has agreed that fishing businesses should be more involved in framing and managing such measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAWYERS are being asked to comment on whether the European Union should agree a set of common safeguards for the treatment of defendants or suspects facing court proceedings in any Member State. The idea has been flagged up by the European Commission, which has published a new Green Paper on procedural safeguards for suspects in criminal proceedings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend international private equity group Advent International Euro 10 million, to help it, and an associated consortium, buy 65 per cent of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), which is being privatised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has adopted a resolution that “deplores” the American refusal to strike a deal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on licensing generic drugs in developing countries facing health crises. MEP’s criticised the USA for “favouring a unilateral solution and a narrow list of medicines for which WTO intellectual property rules would be waived.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AÉROPORTS de Paris has lost its last ditch bid to win a legal battle over its fees for ground-handling services, with the European Court of Justice rejecting an appeal brought by the company against a ruling from its sister Court of First Instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL agreement has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over a new legal aid directive, which would ease access to justice for litigants in cross-border civil and commercial disputes. Member States, (barring Denmark, which has opted out), will be bound to provide financial support to citizens who cannot afford legal advice for such cases held within the EU, unless governments deem that such actions are “manifestly unfounded.”…