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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN, France, Belgium and Sweden have been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement European Union (EU) directive 2001/17/EC on the reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings. The UK government admitted that it had failed to comply with the directive as regards the Lloyd’s market and Gibraltar, and the court confirmed that it had “failed to fulfil its obligations” and ordered it to pay the case costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of clinical trials centres is being created, which will provide services to public and private clients wanting to test new medicines and medical techniques. ECRIN, (the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network), will also promote the harmonised implementation within EU member states of European directives dealing with clinical research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECSTASY has become Britain’s number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIX year fishing agreement struck between the European Commission and the Seychelles has reduced access for European Union (EU) tuna boats to answer criticism that similar past deals have been emptying developing world waters of fish. The new agreement with the Seychelles – lasting from January 2005 to 2011 – cuts fishing opportunities for tuna long-liners by 15% by 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS a truly global criminal problem, it is only right that fighting money laundering is a key priority of the United Nations (UN). Its general assembly and key committees have made declarations and approved conventions on the subject, and its specialist agencies have also devoted time, money, specialist staff and energy to fighting the problem.…

Keith Nuthall
AIR tickets for young, old and poor passengers, plus family groups, flying between France’s Caribbean islands Guadeloupe and Saint Martin and the French mainland will be subsidised Euro 100-300 per person by the national government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has come under increased political pressure to improve its conservation of fishing stocks and monitoring of illicit catches through a ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

Judges backed claims from the European Commission that Dublin had been breaking European Union (EU) laws by:

*Failing to agree detailed guidelines on exploiting its allocated fishing quotas;

*Not adequately monitoring fishing boats, inspecting landings and recording catches;

*Allowing fishing boats to continue working when their quotas are exhausted; and

*Not launching administrative or criminal proceedings against vessel masters breaking fishing regulations.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the French government to subsidise airline Air Caraïbes’ equipping of two Airbus A 330-200’s to fly between its Caribbean departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique and mainland France. Air Caraïbes would enter the trans-Atlantic market as a result.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) conference on improving the balance between work and life has concluded that “we will probably need to work longer in the future”. A communiqué released by the Foundation Forum, staged in Dublin, however, added that “we also need to work smarter”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has increased the money it spends on fighting livestock diseases in the European Union (EU) to Euro 188 million in 2005, an increase of Euro 41 million. Brussels is to concentrate these funds on TSE’s, with BSE monitoring getting the lion’s share: Euro 98 million and Euro 32 million being spent on scrapie eradication.…