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KYOTO/EMISSIONS TRADING
KEITH NUTHALL
On the basis of existing policies and measures alone, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and the United Kingdom should reach their individual targets. The Netherlands and Luxembourg will achieve their targets with the help of credits from the project-based mechanisms.…
CHEMICAL CARTEL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined three chemical companies Euro 216.91 million for operating a cartel in monochloroacetic acid production; it makes detergents and thickens cosmetics. The companies concerned included Akzo Nobel, of the Netherlands (Euro 84.38 million); Atofina – now Arkema – of France (Euro 58.5 million); and Hoechst, of Germany (Euro 74.03 million).…
GOVERNMENT DEBTS
Keith Nuthall
THE LATEST government debt figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat shows that Italy and Greece have a long way to go before breathing easy over their governments’ indebtedness. Under the Growth and Stability Pact underpinning the value of the Euro, any country using the currency with debt exceeding 60% of GDP must ensure they are steadily moving towards the black.…
EU TAXATION REPORT
Keith Nuthall
BRITISH taxation inched up from 2002 to 2003, but according to the latest comparative European Union (EU)-wide figures, the UK still has one of the lowest European tax burdens. As a proportion of GDP, Britain’s total taxes were 37.1% in 2003, compared with 37% in 2002, up from 36.7% in 1995, before the accession to power of the Labour government.…
EUROVIGNETTE/LICENCES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SECURING agreement on important European Union (EU) legislation creating a continent-wide tolling system for all lorries exceeding 3.5 tonnes will be the top transport priority of the EU’s new Luxembourg presidency. The grand duchy’s transport minister Lucien Lux has already discussed the railway aspects of the proposed widened Eurovignette regime with the EU railway federation the CER and has publicly promised to push for agreement.…
WTO SUMMIT HONG KONG - INDUSTRIAL GOODS SERVICES LIBERALISATION DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUTO manufacturing firms will be closely monitoring next week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong for signs that the WTO’s long-running Doha Development Round talks are about to crack open national automobile markets. Key auto industry countries – the US, the European Union, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India and Brazil – have been making steady progress this year in identifying non-tariff barriers to trade they would like to remove, such as burdensome customs procedures, technical engineering rules and licences.…
EUROPOL - ORGANISED CRIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL professionals such as accountants are becoming increasingly important to European organised crime groups, European Union (EU) police agency Europol has warned.
Calling for a “risk analysis of this phenomenon at an EU level…to identify appropriate countermeasures”, Europol’s latest annual report on organised crime suggests that corrupt professionals are freelancing for criminals as a career choice.…
ECJ SPAIN RIGHTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government is likely to lose a European Court of Justice (ECJ) battle with the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to secure additional fishing rights in coastal waters around the Atlantic frontier between Spain and France.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILE discussions continue over how to ensure the security of energy supplies to the European Union (EU), Brussels institutions are sinking money into one sure bet, eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), for instance, is lending US$170 million to SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, to fund two Caspian gas projects.…
GABON EU FISHING DEAL - EU NORWAY DEAL - ESA PATAGONIAN TOOTHFISH - ECJ SPAIN FRANCE GREECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and Norway have divided up common stocks within the North Sea for 2006, overcoming difficult conservation problems, especially regarding cod. Brussels and Oslo have agreed on a long-term management plan for cod, to come into effect when the stock has returned to safe biological levels.…