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KEITH NUTHALL
A FRENCH fishing company has opened the way for fellow fishermen from across the European Union to launch direct legal challenges to EU fishing regulations.

Until now, under European case law, fishing and other companies were not allowed to ask judges at the European Court of Justice to strike down irksome EU rules, where they apply equally to a number of competitors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European directive reducing pollutant emissions from new motorcycles by between 65-70 per cent within four years has been approved by a conciliation committee linking the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers. Reductions in carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions would be made in two steps; in 2003 and 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL agreement has been secured on an updated European Union directive on employees’ safety from exposure to mechanical vibrations, with the deadline companies have to introduce technical changes reducing exposure being cut from 2011 to 2010. This was agreed by a European Parliament- EU Council of Ministers conciliation committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has passed the proposed directive on food supplements, clearing the way for the final adoption of the new EU-wide rules which harmonise the national rules on the sale of pills and capsules, Including labeling) and safety rules for supplements containing vitamins and minerals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEP’s are trying to water down a strongly centralised European Union “Community Patent” system, that would grant jurisdiction over disputes to a new EU intellectual property court; instead, the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee is calling for national courts to be given the job.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL gas exploration companies working in the inhospitable Snøhvit field, off the far north coast of Norway, should be granted tax privileges, following acceptance of a scheme by the Surveillance Authority of the European Free Trade Area. Gas will be landed onshore via pipeline, cooled, then liquefied for ship transportation to international markets.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SIGNIFICANT changes in the international art market, with possibly adverse consequences for European museums, galleries and other art buyers, could follow from a case being brought by the European Commission against the world’s two leading fine art auction houses, Christie’s International plc in London and Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc of New York.…

Keith Nuthall
A PETITION opposing plans to expand Madrid’s Baraja airport has been presented to the European Parliament by 12 mayors from Spain’s capital district. They claim that the project’s diversion of the River Jarama would have serious consequences for water management and the environment and an expansion would create more air noise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to European Union law that would force all Member States to adopt programmes to fight the food poisoning and food-born diseases will be made tougher still, if amendments proposed by a key European Parliament committee become law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has tightened a proposed reform of the European Union rules protecting construction workers from asbestos, cutting maximum exposure levels, especially during demolition, removal, repair and maintenance work, (except for asbestos cement work). Here, workers would be exposed to a maximum average of 0.05 fibres per cm2 over eight hours, rather than 0.1.…