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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is pushing for Britain and Ireland to adopt the same rabies protection measures in place for other European Union (EU) member states – other than Finland and Sweden, which also have tougher controls. In a review of the EU’s current pet movement health checks mandated by EU regulation EC/998/2003, Brussels has concluded that "provided that protective immunity has been established and maintained by administration of an authorised vaccine…a valid vaccination should be the sole requirement for pets to travel to all member states".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TACOGRAPH spotchecks by British highways officials and police have revealed continental van and lorry drivers are far more likely to break European Union (EU) working time rules on UK roads than Britons. Looking at newest available EU-wide comparative data 27,418 of offenders detected in 2004-4 on British highways were UK citizens, while 11,565 were from the much smaller pool of drivers from other EU member states.…

BY MARK ROWE

WEATHER-resistant and anti-corrosion coatings and sealants are being developed with the aid of nanotechnology that will significantly enhance the lifetime operation of buildings and property across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Most of the developments are expected to be particularly welcome in the Asia-Pacific region, where the hot and humid climate imposes a more onerous regime on paints and coatings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has sent final legal warnings to 10 European Union (EU) member governments, telling them to abide by minimum standards for the training of professional drivers working in their countries. EU directive 2003/59 imposes requirements for initial qualification and continuing training: compulsory basic training of 280 hours, and periodic training of 35 hours every five years to update knowledge and skills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FINLAND’S alleged failure to crack-down sufficiently hard on the sale of oral tobacco in its autonomous Åland Islands region has prompted the formal warning of potential further legal action by the European Commission. It is threatening a request that Helsinki receive daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s until the islands comply with European Union (EU) directive 2001/37/EC, which bans oral tobacco from the EU.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

FOOD prices in the UK and Ireland have reached Scandinavian levels according to the European Union’s (EU) statistics agency, Eurostat.
In 2006, Ireland-sold milk, cheese and eggs, for instance, cost 126% of the EU average, and they were 115% in the UK, compared with 104% in Sweden and 110% in Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIFFERENTIALS in car prices between the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) persist, the latest showroom survey by the European Commission reveals. While prices in the UK fell by 0.3% from January to July this year, fleet managers looking for bargains would still do well to look abroad, as British prices are often well above the EU average.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CONCERNS that non-British bus and coach drivers from 10 European Union (EU) member states could have weak professional driving training and be a public transport safety risk are being addressed by the European Commission. It is threatening action at the European Court of Justice against these countries for not complying with an EU directive on professional drivers training that insists upon 280 hours compulsory basic training and 35 hours further training every five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and CHRISTOPHER JONES

WHEN the idea of creating a European Institute of Technology (EIT) was tabled by the European Commission last year, it provoked intense criticism amongst the European academic community. But now, 18 months after the first formal proposals were released, the EIT looks likely to be established anyway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission will plead at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a ruling telling Finland to guarantee that temporary visitors to the country are exempt from paying its car registration tax. Brussels claims the Finnish system breaks European Union (EU) taxation rights enshrined in EU directive 83/182/EEC.…