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BY ALAN OSBORN
GREECE has failed to approve legislation implementing the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive and has provided neither an explanation nor a promise of future action to the European Commission, laying itself open to action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Greece with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case over its requirement that companies providing local third-party motor insurance must belonging to the Greek national association of insurance companies. Brussels said this could “risk preventing or discouraging insurance companies from other (EU) member states from entering the Greek market, and thus a risk of restricting competition on prices and on the access of policyholders to a wider selection of companies”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) report has claimed more Britons work excessive hours than other Europeans, with 15.5% of UK citizens working more than 50 hours a week, while in other EU countries the proportion ranges from 1.4% in the Netherlands to 6.2% in Greece and Ireland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has cleared Greece of breaking European Union (EU) excise rules by charging 50% of the duty on its national drink ouzo than on other spirits. The European Commission claimed that in this way, Greece was effectively discriminating against imported spirits, even though EU excise legislation explicitly allows it to charge a reduced duty on ouzo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK government’s alleged failure to implement European Union (EU) rules on solvency margins for life assurance and non-life insurance businesses has landed it in the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The European Commission has launched a case after being dissatisfied with Athens’ response to its final warning letters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced Euro 5 million of spending to help France, Denmark, Greece and Italy promote local food products in the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, China, Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Romania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS European Union (EU) debates reforms to its working time rules designed to make it harder for Britain to opt-out of this EU legislation, an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report has claimed more Britons work excessive hours than other Europeans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The first report of the new European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) which was created earlier this year says that in Europe “a high proportion of industrial pollution is caused by a few single plants.” The report, which initially covers emissions in the 15 EU countries, Norway and Hungary in the year 2001, is soon to be upgraded to a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register which will significantly widen the range of pollutants, industries and emissions, will report every year instead of every third one and will take data from road traffic, aviation, shipping and agriculture as well as industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S performance in reducing heart disease deaths could be much improved compared with many of its European Union (EU) partners, a new World Health Organisation heart disease atlas, has shown.

Dividing a country’s annual deaths from heart disease with its population, saturated fats and beer loving Britain had a comparative factor of 2, based on 120,530 deaths in 2002 amongst a population of 59 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Commissioner for health and consumer affairs has shown signs in a European Parliament questionnaire that he could be as feisty as his predecessor, Ireland’s David Byrne, calling for an EU-wide ban on smoking in public.…