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ECJ JUDGES CENSURE IRELAND OVER DIRTY WATER EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for breaking the urban waste water directive by discharging dirty sewage in the communities of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo, and Tramore. Judges agreed with the European Commission that the Irish government should have subjected this waste water to secondary treatment.…
Europe:Young European scientists promise a bright future
By Alan Osborn
Three young researchers, from Poland, Slovakia and Britain, were awarded the top prizes in the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Copenhagen on September 25th against competition from national scientific prize-winners from 39 European countries plus Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.…
UNIVERSITIES OFFER ELITE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ADVICE TO ORGANISATIONS COMPLYING WITH AML LAWS
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE WORLD is not over-full of specialist academic experts at universities and colleges teaching anti-money laundering methods. This is partly because the subject is often subsumed into financial crime generally and partly because genuine AML skills can command a useful premium to banks and other major financial institutions better able to support lavish salaries and back-up systems.…
IRISH MEAT DEAL ILLEGAL UNDER COMPETITION LAW SAYS ECJ JUDGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ADVOCATE general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that an Irish initiative designed to reduce over-capacity in Ireland’s beef processing sector breaks European Union (EU) competition law.
In a formal opinion, Verica Trstenjak found illegal the operation of Ireland’s Beef Industry Development Society Ltd (BIDS), which was formed in 2002 to unite most of the country’s processors – accounting for 93% of beef sold in the country.…
ECJ JUDGES CENSURE IRELAND OVER DIRTY WATER EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for breaking the urban waste water directive by discharging dirty sewage in the communities of Bray, Howth, Letterkenny, Shanganagh, Sligo, and Tramore. Judges agreed with the European Commission that the Irish government should have subjected this waste water to secondary treatment.…
BRUSSELS PROPOSES MAJOR INCREASE IN MINIMUM RATES FOR TOBACCO DUTY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed increasing the minimum rate of excise duty payable on cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) from the current Euro 64/1,000 cigarettes to Euro 90 by 2014. Brussels thinks the measure will reduce smoking by 10% in most member states over the next five years.…
EU ENERGY DEPENDENCE INCREASES SAYS EUROSTAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCREASING dependence of the European Union (EU) on energy imports has been made crystal clear in the latest Eurostat report on the subject. The EU’s statistical agency said net imports into the EU increased by 2.4% in 2006, with overall energy dependence from non-EU sources rising to 54% from 53% in 2005.…
EUROPE: European education good but more needed
By Alan Osborn
The 27 EU member states will have to speed up their educational progress if they are to meet a range of self-imposed targets deemed necessary if the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs is to be successful by 2010.…
BRITAIN AND IRELAND SIGN FUNCTIONAL AIRSPACE BLOCK DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and Ireland have become the first European countries to sign an agreement creating a cross-border functional airspace block. The deal allows airlines to liaise with one set of air-traffic controllers when crossing Irish and British airspace, with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) working with Britain’s Air Traffic Control Service (NATS).…
BRITAIN FACES ECJ ACTION OVER ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission for allegedly failing to comply with the European Union’s environmental liability directive. The UK is one of nine member states – also including Ireland – accused of not writing the law’s principles on polluters paying for damages caused by their actions into their national statute books.…