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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLASSICAL swine fever has been detected at three locations in Luxembourg and the export of all live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos, as well as the shipment of pigs through the tiny country, has been banned by the European commission.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WHILE BSE and Foot and Mount Disease ravaged Britain, Australia remained disease-free making it an attractive alternative meat source, even for cuts that are traditionally eaten in the Outback as so-called “bush tucker”.

Australian market reports claimed demand from British meat buyers for kangaroo increased by 30 per cent in 2000 and 2001.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised Germany to pay Euro 1 million, (Pounds 610,000), in national aid to beef farmers in North Rhine-Westphalia as compensation for losses arising out of the BSE crisis. Aid will be in the form of subsidised loans worth some Pounds 15 per animal and will cover up to 500 farmers.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Germany with legal action at the European Court of Justice because it claims labour protection laws designed to soften the effect of liberalising the country’s ground-handling services breaks EU legislation. Directive 96/67 orders the gradual introduction of free access to the groundhandling services market at EU airports by December 2003.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the repayment of Euro 7.83 million, (Pounds 4.8 million), of aid from the German textile company Neue Erba Lautex GmbH (NEL) and its parent company, the bankrupt Erba Lautex GmbH following a formal inquiry launched last summer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a special Tonnage Tax in Spain, where the country’s maritime shipping companies pay tax on the capacity of their ships rather than the profit or loss that they generate.

Brussels approved the plan under its EU internal market powers, because it matches policies stated in the 1997 Commission guidelines on state aid to maritime transport and its new transport white paper.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A STRING of cases have been launched by the European Commission against Member States of the European Union to try and force them to comply with EU water legislation; under existing rules, failure to abide by the court’s rulings can see national governments being hit with huge daily recurring fines of up to Euro 100,000.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOLLOWING the publication by the European Commission on February 5th of its proposed far-reaching reforms to the current block exemption scheme for new car sales in the European Union, the continent’s motor industry is in ferment. Nobody can be quite sure whether the reforms will go through as they have been planned – or when.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A BID by a group of district heating companies to overturn massive fines levied by the European Commission, which found they had been participating in an illegal cartel, has been thrown out by the European Court of Justice’ Court of First Instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER States of the European Union have been accused of dragging their feet while implementing 1976 a directive on the discharge of dangerous substances, which includes a comprehensive list of pollutants that should be removed from water sources.…