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GREECE CAR CONFISCATION ROW
BY ALAN OSBORN
Greece may face legal action at the hands of the European Commission unless it ends the practice of confiscating cars for non-payment of taxes and other violations. Outraged Greek motorists have lodged a petition with the European Parliament which has resolved that the confiscations are "contrary to the right of property and freedom of movement" and calls on the Commission to act "without delay."…
BIRD FLU POULTRY PRODUCTION PRICE FALL FEARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.
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MOLDOVA RUSSIA UKRAINE GAS ROW AUSTRIA EU PRESIDENCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The Austrian presidency of the EU is calling for a negotiated solution to the Russia /Moldova natural gas dispute reflecting deepening concern in Brussels about Europe’s increasing dependence on potentially unreliable outside energy sources. Russia supplies a third of the EU’s gas imports (a fifth of all gas used in the EU) with Germany, Italy and France the main buyers, though a number of EU countries are critically dependent on supplies sent by the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom through the Ukrainian pipeline: 100% for Slovakia, for instance, 92% for Greece and between 60 and 75% for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria.…
GREECE EUROPEAN SINGLE SKY IMPLEMENTATION ECJ ACTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Greece with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its alleged failure to establish an independent national supervisory authority to carry out important tasks under the European Union’s (EU) single European sky regulation.…
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.…
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.…
LOCAL AUTHORITY BROADBAND PROMOTION - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROMOTORS of a European Commission-supported research project encouraging municipalities across Europe to establish local broadband services say their four trials have proved a success. The scheme is especially designed to help local authorities seed new comms tech investment in zones deemed too remote by commercial service providers for investing in infrastructure.…
GERMANY DIRTY COAL-FIRED POWER STATION CLAIM - WWF REPORT
KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY – which until recently had a Green-Socialist government – is home to five of the 10 dirtiest electricity plants in the European Union (EU), a report from conservation group WWF claims. Its assessment of carbon-dioxide emissions from power stations found Germany’s lignite Frimmersdorf RWE plant second most polluting, behind Greece’s lignite plant at Agios Dimitrios.…
INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL DIRECTIVE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about delays in the implementation of a major piece of European Union (EU) environmental legislation have sparked a review by the European Commission, and will encourage it to pursue legal action in the courts. The law in question is the 1996 integrated pollution prevention and control directive, which insists large EU industrial and agricultural installations obtain operating permits – issued only if the best available techniques on controlling emissions are in use.…
INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL DIRECTIVE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about delays in the implementation of a major piece of European Union (EU) environmental legislation have sparked a review by the European Commission, and will encourage it to pursue legal action in the courts. The law in question is the 1996 integrated pollution prevention and control directive, which insists large EU industrial and agricultural installations obtain operating permits – issued only if the best available techniques on controlling emissions are in use.…