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THE EUROPEAN Commission has thrown out an allegation that Irish air authority Aer Rianta abused a dominant position in Ireland’s aviation sector when Fingal County Council rejected an application for the construction of a second terminal at Dublin airport in 1997.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission is to seek authorisation from European Union member governments to negotiate the formal accession of the EU to the International Maritime Organisation. Brussels said that in spite of the EU’s economic strength and the independent political power of its institutions, it carried little weight in the adoption of essential international safety rules in the sea transport sector.…

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A CLINICAL trials programme aimed at uniting EU and developing country research teams in creating medicines to treat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the third world was to be launched this month. The European Commission wants to dedicate Euro 200 million to the European-Developing Countries Clinical Trials Programme in the next Sixth Framework Programme for research.…

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SOCIAL care organisations have been asked to comment on a green paper issued by the European Commission, which calls for guidance over whether common European Union rules regarding the return of illegal immigrants to their home countries should be made binding on EU Member States.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost a legal bid to suppress the payment of state aid by the French government to a cooperative agency that handles small-scale exports of French language books. The European Court of Justice ruled that the Commission had failed to understand that the subsidies did not help the Centre d’Exportation du Livre Français compete in the general book trade.…

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THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (transport) has approved the latest European Commission airport noise directive, accepting European Parliament technical amendments limiting for 10 years an exemption allowing the noisiest aircraft registered in developing countries to continue operating in Europe.…

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SHOE and fashion accessory imports from the United States are to be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to impose 100 per cent retaliatory duties on US exports of ball-point, felt-tipped, fountain and stylograph pens, as well as propelling or sliding pencils, pen-holders, pencil-holders, plus caps and clips. Brussels wants to impose the duties on June 18 in response to the controversial ‘safeguard’ duties erected by Washington to protect its steel industry.…

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THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved the rules governing the operation of the International Jute Study Group 2001. It replaced the work of the old International Jute Agreement, which was wound up last October.…

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IN a groundbreaking legal move, the European Commission has proposed a regulation that would force courts and other judicial authorities across the EU to recognise an uncontested order secured by a creditor, for the recovery of owed money held in another Member State.…