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BY ALAN OSBORN

Big European food retailers have been delighted with a new ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) slapping down regulations imposed by the Spanish government to restrict the location and operations of hypermarkets in Catalonia. The court, whose decisions are legal precedents throughout every country and region in the European Union (EU), said Spain had failed to fulfill obligations imposed by the "freedom of establishment" provision of the EU treaties.…

BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

HUNGARY’S strategic location in central Europe, a cash-based economy, and a well-developed financial services industry, makes it important to both pan-European anti-money laundering enforcement, and indeed, to criminals themselves.

Generally, the nature of money laundering that goes on in Hungary can be serious but stops short of funnelling funds to terrorist organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Hungary with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), arguing it is failing to provide fair access to groundhandling contracts at Budapest Airport. Brussels has said in a communiqué that the Hungarian government is breaching the EU groundhandling directive (96/67/EC) by unfairly limiting the number of potential groundhandling service providers at Budapest, and "failing to organise appropriate selection procedures".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its gas infrastructure investment priorities for the next 20 years. They are pipeline and other transit projects delivering gas directly from the Caspian Sea to Europe; integrating the Baltic gas market, connecting it to central and southeast Europe; and boosting north-south infrastructure in western Europe to remove internal bottlenecks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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INTELLIGENCE advice teams are to be posted at international airports in seven west African countries, to boost the number and effectiveness of illicit drugs seizures at their terminals. This ‘Aircop’ initiative has been organised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and Interpol.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS sector has long been the focus of some the most direct market intervention by the European Union (EU), and it would seem that the EU still has an appetite for such initiatives, consulting on new guidance on third party access to fixed networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has today released its long-awaited proposed nuclear waste directive, which would tell European Union (EU) member states to develop plans to store radioactive waste in safe repositories. The proposal however dodges the issue of whether to force governments to use deep underground repositories, even though it is clearly Brussels’ favoured option.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COMPREHENSIVE action across the European Union (EU) is needed to fight bee diseases that are threatening food supplies through lack of pollination, the European Parliament’s agriculture committee has said. In a report approved today (Thursday), MEPs warned rising bee mortality could devastate EU food production, as an estimated 76% of food production in Europe depends on bee pollination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to combine forces with the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the coming year to examine offshore oil and gas safety in the light of the Gulf of Mexico spill.

At an ‘Energy Dialogue’ meeting in Brussels, senior OPEC and EU officials agreed to organise an international roundtable on minimising offshore safety risks early 2011, which could spark new regulations.…

BY ERIC LYMAN and KEITH NUTHALL

THE EXECUTIVE secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Yvo de Boer will switch his attentions to the private sector after standing down from his job on July 1. He will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as global adviser on climate and sustainability and working with a number of universities.…