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ITALY FINES
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has declared illegal on grounds of national discrimination the imposition of tougher penalties by the Italian authorities on erring foreign drivers than on Italians. Local drivers may appeal against a penalty within 60 days, but foreigners must appeal immediately and then post security of twice the minimum fine to avoid the immediate confiscation of their licence or vehicle.…
INSURANCE MEDIATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Council of Ministers has unanimously agreed the proposed directive on insurance mediation, a decision that almost guarantees its passage into EU law. The proposal will now receive a second reading by the European Parliament; if it does not make many changes, final approval could come before Brussels’ political summer recess.…
FRANCE AND PORTUGAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved an application from France to extend for another seven years its right to reduce by up to half the rate of excise duty applied in mainland France to traditional rum from the French Caribbean and Indian Ocean departments of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion and Guyane.…
CHEMICAL BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PUBLIC sale of printing inks containing dangerous chemicals named on a new European Commission blacklist could be banned from April 2003. Brussels wants ministers to amend a directive restricting chemicals deemed carcinogenic, or harmful to genes and reproduction, by adding 43 more ingredients, some used in ink.…
DOUBLE CHECKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (general affairs) has extended the double-checking system on certain steel exports to the EU from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic until this December 31. The regime is designed to detect any abuses of the trade preferences enjoyed by these countries under association agreements with the EU.…
KOSOVO SUNFLOWERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KOSOVO sunflower oil factory, in Ferizaj/Urosevac, has re-established itself utilising a Euro 1.2 million loan from the European Agency for Reconstruction to buy 3,600 tonnes of seeds from local farmers.…
ECJ CASES
KEITH NUTHALL
A STRING of cases have been launched by the European Commission against Member States of the European Union to try and force them to comply with EU water legislation; under existing rules, failure to abide by the court’s rulings can see national governments being hit with huge daily recurring fines of up to Euro 100,000.…
SOLVENCY MARGINS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved a new ‘solvency margin’ directive that boosts by 50 per cent the minimum financial reserves that must be retained by EU-registered insurance companies writing aviation industry policies, which Brussels deems “a particularly volatile risk.”…
CHINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has attacked a ban by the EU on certain Chinese food imports on health grounds as ‘unacceptable’ and warned it could seriously affect bilateral trade. The European Commission voted to ban honey, poultry and rabbit meat, plus shrimps and prawns, following the discovery of “serious deficiencies” in China’s medical residue control system and “problems related to the use of banned substances in the veterinary field.”…
EU STATE AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it intends to apply the same strict state aid rules for the European Union steel industry that have applied in the past under the regulations of the European Coal and Steel Community, which expires on July 23.…