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EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROACTIVE competition inquiry has been launched into the European Union’s (EU) natural gas sector, with the aim of rooting out anti-competitive practices. If the European Commission discovers instances of gas companies breaking existing EU competition law, legal action could follow.…
CONTAMINATION ASSESSMENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project has developed technology that enabling local authorities to assess contaminants on brownfield sites, without having to drill boreholes and take physical samples. The HYGEIA consortium has developed a high-precision positioning system for ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, which is necessary for collecting high-resolution 3-D data.…
REGISTRATION TAXES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the abolition of registration taxes that it says impede the transfer of vehicles to the 16 European Union (EU) member states that impose them. Britain is not among the countries concerned, but they include Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria and Poland.…
KARST GROUNDWATER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED studies from a series of collaborative projects on improving the groundwater aquifers of ‘Karst’ limestone coastal areas have been released by a group of scientists coordinated by Europe’s COST initiative (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical research).…
ITALY DISTILLATION
Keith Nuthall
ITALY has become the fourth European Union (EU) country this year to press the European Commission to allow crisis distillation to deal with a major wine grape surplus. Speaking at this week’s EU Council of Ministers, agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel “acknowledged the serious situation of the sector”, but would not yet agree, saying the “request was still under thorough examination”.…
GREEK DISTILLATION
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a plan by Greece to put 340,000 hectolitres of table wine and 40,000 hectolitres of quality wine into crisis distillation following a collapse in prices. Brussels said there had been a “worrying rise in stocks” and in order to remedy the difficult market situation, “stocks of Greek wine should be reduced to a level that can be regarded as normal in terms of covering market requirements.”…
GM REFUSAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has blocked a European Commission bid to lift national bans imposed by Austria, France, Germany, Greece and Luxembourg on eight GM maize and oil seed rape corn products. This was despite their already being authorised by the Commission and the European Food Safety Authority.…
FOOD PROMOTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 26.1 million on 26 programmes promoting the sale within the EU of organic food products, olive oil, milk and cheese, ham, fruit and vegetables, plus some drinks products. There will be matching funding from participating countries Britain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus.…
EMISSIONS TRADING EXPANSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEITHER transport nor any other new sectors will be added to the European Union’s (EU) carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme before 2013, the European Commission has promised. Issuing this promise, (as Greece became the final member state to secure acceptance of its national allocation emissions), the Commission nonetheless started a review of the system, which will consider the scheme’s future expansion to cover transport.…
CAP FRAUD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is demanding the recovery of Euro 277.25 million in illegally paid European Union farm subsidies. Notably, Brussels demanded Spain order the repayment of Euro 134.48 paid to flax and hemp growers from 1996 to 2000, following “major shortcomings in the control system and general fraud”.…