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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PAYMENT of Euro 197 million (GBPounds 136 million) by the French government to state-owned printer Imprimerie Nationale (IN) has been approved by the European Commission. The money will restructure the business, in commercial trouble because of a general downturn in France’s printing sector since 2001 and losing a contract to produce France Télécom telephone directories; this, said the Commission had “contributed to the severe contraction in its cash flow”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening legal action against France, Poland and Austria for allegedly breaking European Union (EU) freedom of trade laws by impeding the import of cars into their territories. Brussels objects to Austria’s double-checking of European certificates of conformity, which are designed to ease cross-border car registration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has hit France with a massive recurring Euro 57 million fine for continually flouting European Union (EU) fishing controls. In only the second fine issued by the court against an EU member state, judges also ordered Paris to pay a one-off Euro 20 million fine.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SPURRED by the recent OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) report on terrorism risk cover, insurers have begun to wonder about the optimum pattern for cover in this highly unpredictable sector with its potential for catastrophic losses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DENMARK has become the latest European Union (EU) member state to be hauled over the coals by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to properly police EU fishing rules in its waters. As with other cases of this type – for instance against Britain – judges have censured the Danes for a variety of offences against the Common Fishing Policy (CFP), going back many years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Turkey’s Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi Euro 200 million to help fund a joint venture with France’s Peugeot-Citroën and Italy’s Fiat Auto, to develop, produce and sell light vans. The loan would fund half of the project’s projected Euro 400 million cost.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE REMARKABLY quick approval of the European Union’s (EU) Third Money Laundering Directive this summer has delighted the EU’s law enforcement agencies but it may have done little for the composure of lawyers who had hoped, in vain as it turned out, that the measure would tackle what they see as the deficiencies of the 2nd directive approved in 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW group of specialists and academics forged by the European Commission will focus on the cancer risks associated with environmental and nutritional factors, as well as individual susceptibility. This ‘Network of Excellence’ ECNIS (environmental cancer, nutrition and individual susceptibility) is the latest group established to link experts from across the European Union (EU), under the European Research Area policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for the “reinforcement” of European Union (EU) standards for ramp inspections of non-EU aircraft calling at EU airports. The idea, said EASA, was “that the same procedures are applied throughout the EU in a transparent and harmonised manner”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of a fishing agreement that will give 40 European Union (EU) tuna seiners and 17 surface longliners access to the Indian Ocean waters off the Comoros archipelago. Asking EU ministers to approve the deal, Brussels said it would cover an annual catch of 6,000 tonnes of tuna in Comoros waters until December 2010.…