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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNCIL of the European Economic Area has noted pressure from European Free Trade Area members, (Iceland, Norway and Leichtenstein), that they should be freed from any affects of the European Union’s steel safeguard duty regime, launched as a response to the duties imposed by the Bush administration in the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PUBLIC Power Corporation (PPC) of Greece will be able to honour a long term contract with Aluminium of Greece to supply it with cheap electricity at a loss, even after the part-privatised generating company faces full competition in the European Union (EU) energy market under EU liberalisation directives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL restrictions should be imposed on companies, businessmen, ministers and soldiers charged with involvement in the shameless plundering of the mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations (UN) committee established to investigate the problem has concluded.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BELGIUM has failed to comply with the universal service and interoperability provisions of the 1997 EU directive on telecommunications interconnection directive, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It has found in favour of the European Commission which brought a case against the Belgian government, charging that it had failed to introduce rules to monitor and verify compliance by telecommunication operators with mandatory cost accounting systems, as required by the directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has taken a significant step towards the creation of a European Union (EU) greenhouse gas emissions trading system, as signatory governments of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Convention gathered to meet in New Delhi this week, (October 23 to November 1).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union (EU) emission limits for non-road mobile machinery have been agreed by the EU Council of Ministers, following nearly two years of debates. Handheld machines, such as handheld chainsaws, hedge trimmers, brush cutters, and power-cutters, will have to comply with tough new emission limits within four-and-a-half years, with larger mobile lawn mowers having to comply within 18 months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend US$3 million to the Armenian Copper Programme to help this joint stock company improve its production processes and boost profitability, with the final aim of making environmental improvements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CONCEPT of nation building is not new. Powerful governments have for centuries sought to create pliant political administrations which would do their bidding, without being directly under their control. It is, after all, in noone’s interest for a territory to descent into chaos.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EU environment ministers have broadened the scope of new legislation amending the present Seveso Two directive which imposes duties on industrial plants to protect against and prepare for accidents. Changes made by the EU’s Council of Environment Ministers will highlight the importance of ensuring “appropriate safety distances between industrial establishments and major transport routes,” the European Commission said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s legal affairs committee has proposed amendments to the European Commission’s latest proposed tobacco advertising directive, liberalising its effect. MEPs want to limit the directive to cases with ‘significant trans-border effects’ and to permit advertising indirectly related to tobacco.…