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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a proposed European Union (EU) regulation which would allow police and other law enforcement officials within the EU’s Schengen open border area to inspect registration documentation held in all countries of this zone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally told Greece and Cyprus they must ensure new lorries using their roads are fitted with digital tachographs. This became compulsory under European Union (EU) law for new goods vehicles in the EU from May, but Brussels claims Greece and Cyprus have not issued the necessary tachograph cards to drivers, companies, workshops and control officers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INNOVATIVE recycling projects are to prosper from European Union (EU) grants under the Euro 66 million EU LIFE-Environment programme this coming year, the European Commission has announced. Although they are not based in the UK, these recycling projects will develop new technology and systems that can be applied freely in Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FISHING access deal allowing European Union (EU) fishermen to exploit Guinea-Bissau’s Atlantic fish stocks until June next year has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. The agreement was negotiated to run from this June, and includes fishing rights for:

*Shrimps: Italy boats of up to 1,776 gross registered tonnes (GRT), Spain to 1,421 GRT, Portugal 1,066 GRT, and Greece 137 GRT;

*Finfish and cephalopods: Spain 3,143 GRT, Italy 786 GRT, and Greece 471 GRT;

*Tuna seiners: Spain 20, France 19, and Italy 1; and

*Surface longliners and pole-and-line vessels: Spain 21, France 5, and Portugal 4.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE COST to Britain’s exchequer of refusing to participate in the European Union’s legal agreement with Philip Morris over illicit cigarette trades has become clearer with the European Commission dividing up the spoils. PMI has promised to pay US$1 billion over 12 years to the European Commission and 10 European Union (EU) member states who have participated in the deal, with the cigarette giant already handing over US$325 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH fishermen have been allocated one of the smaller national envelopes of money from the incoming European Fisheries Fund (EFF), whose money has now been split amongst European Union (EU) member states by the European Commission. Out of the Euro 3.8 billion available from 2007 to 2013, only Euro 122 million has been allocated to the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 450 million on upgrading European Union (EU) vineyard production during 2006-7, helping EU wine producers fend off New World competitors. The money will go on varietal conversion, relocating vineyards and improving vineyard management, although not routine replanting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) funded research project has developed a system for integrating tiny stainless-steel wires within fabrics, which are designed to ferry information about the wearer’s vital signs to electronic monitors. The aim of the Euro 4 million WEALTHY project has been to create a "groundbreaking woven sensing interface to be worn without any discomfort" that can be plugged into monitors at home or work, downloading important medical data to doctors at remote locations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal changes to the European Union’s (EU) cotton subsidy system, which effectively decoupled aid from actual production. The ECJ has ruled that by ignoring the effect of reducing aid on ginning businesses and also failing to take labour costs into account when framing the new system, the European Commission breached the key EU principle of acting "proportionately" when faced with a problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDITERRANEAN countries face raising duties on fortified wines such as port and sherry under proposals to increase minimum European Union excise duties by 31%. Fortified wine tax would increase by 9 Euro cents in Greece and Cyprus on 70cl bottles; 8 cents in Malta; 3 cents in Portugal.…