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BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s oncoming wine common market reform would cut wine-growing areas in the European Union (EU) by 400,000 hectares from the present 3.4 million hectares by financing a 5-year grubbing up programme, a Commission official has confirmed.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WITH the approval in May of two key regulations covering respectively nutrition and health claims and the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods the EU has taken an important step forward in setting the legal framework for the food industry in Europe.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

OVER the last five years the Middle East and North Africa region has firmly joined the global effort to fight money laundering and terrorist financing by setting up national financial intelligence units and a regional watchdog, the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA-FATF).…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

WIND power is Europe’s big growth area for electricity generation, according to the latest comparative figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, with capacity growing by 154% between 2000 and 2004. Its report noted wind power "is responsible for more than half of the new generating capacity" in these years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is predicting that it will spend Euro 86.9 million more than the Euro 1.49 billion budgeted for 2006 wine production subsidies. In a report to MEPs and ministers, the Commission claimed that this "over-implementation is temporary" and that "it is mainly due to the payments arising from the crisis distillations…earlier in the budget year."…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is expanding the European Union’s (EU) international trial of hydrogen vehicles beyond the ongoing successful CUTE bus project that has involved London. It has announced two fresh projects: ZERO REGIO running eight fuel-cell passenger cars in Frankfurt and Mantova; and HyCHAIN:MINITRANS operating 158 small transport vehicles (minivans, minibuses, scooters, cargo bicycles and wheel chairs) in France, Germany, Spain and Italy.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WE’RE barely a third of the way through 2006 but it’s already clear that the year is going to be a hugely important one for European Union (EU) legislation affecting both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRAZEN political manoeuvres to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) political leaders have agreed medium-term (2007-13) budgets for crucial spending projects for the energy sector: Trans European Networks (TENs) and the EU seventh framework programme (FP7) for research. On TENs, the European Parliament, Commission, and EU Council of Ministers have agreed a Euro 7.2 billion budget, Euro 500 million above previous drafts, although this will have to be split with TENs transport projects.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

ATTEMPTS to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…