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GERMANY ECJ
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Germany with legal action at the European Court of Justice because it claims labour protection laws designed to soften the effect of liberalising the country’s ground-handling services breaks EU legislation. Directive 96/67 orders the gradual introduction of free access to the groundhandling services market at EU airports by December 2003.…
WATER POLLUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER States of the European Union have been accused of dragging their feet while implementing 1976 a directive on the discharge of dangerous substances, which includes a comprehensive list of pollutants that should be removed from water sources.…
CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING
KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN consumers still lack the confidence to buy in countries other than their own, in spite of all the efforts made to open up the internal market, the European Commission reports. A special survey by the Commission shows that only 31 per cent of consumers think their rights are well protected when they shop cross-border in the EU, against 56 per cent who feel well protected in their own country.…
EU ADMIN
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to update its administrative systems for monitoring its trade in textiles and clothing with the limited number of countries with whom it does not have trade agreements covering the sector, which include Taiwan.
In particular, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to update rules on surveillance and the use of electronic documentation.…
CHILDREN'S MEDICINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCENTIVES designed to encourage European pharmaceutical manufacturers to develop specialist children’s medicines have been proposed by the European Commission; its consultation paper also suggests ways of increasing the testing of existing general medicines for their effectiveness and safety regarding young patients.…
HORMONE TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REQUIREMENT that 20 per cent of fresh beef meat and offal imported into the European Union from the USA should be tested for the presence of banned hormones is to be lifted, after EU vets approved a proposal from the European Commission.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
“SERIOUS concern” has been expressed by the European Commission over the failure of a number of Member States to set up telecommunications and IT networks to establish a New Computerised Transit System, which should seal an administrative loophole bleeding millions of Euro’s in defrauded revenue.…
NORWAY EFTA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area Court has ordered Norway to scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where mostly domestically-produced brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv, can be sold outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, while other largely imported pre-packaged alcoholic drinks, with the same strength, must be sold through the government system.…
CHINA - WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has “expressed concern” and “disappointment” over China’s failure to met a January 1 deadline to establish low duty tariff quotas for imports of sugar, palm oil and some other commodities under the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation.…
AIDS/TB/HIV
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL proposals have been released by the European Commission for a programme to help spread medicines fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries. The plans include budget lines of Euro 26.1 million, covering aid from January 2003 to December 2006.…