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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has admitted that support for a comprehensive unbundling of EU energy suppliers and producers is weak within the EU Council of Ministers, signalling that he may have to water down tough draft proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has been condemned by European Court of Justice again over shellfish waters, finding Ireland illegally excluded many shellfish beds from the pollution controls required by the directive European Union directive 79/923/EEC. Ireland had also failed to set compulsory pollution limits for organohalogenated substances and metals for controlled zones it had actually established.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has been condemned by European Court of Justice again for failing to keep its shellfish waters sufficiently free from pollution, as required by European Union directive 79/923/EEC. This time the court has found Ireland illegally excluded many shellfish beds from the pollution controls required by the directive, beyond its 14 officially designated shellfish zones.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has admitted that support for a comprehensive unbundling of EU energy suppliers and producers is weak within the EU Council of Ministers, signalling that he may have to water down planned tough draft proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has admitted that support for a comprehensive unbundling of EU energy suppliers and producers is weak within the EU Council of Ministers, signalling that he may have to water down planned tough draft proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRELAND has been condemned by European Court of Justice again over shellfish waters, finding Ireland illegally excluded many shellfish beds from the pollution controls required by the directive European Union directive 79/923/EEC. Ireland had also failed to set compulsory pollution limits for organohalogenated substances and metals for controlled zones it had actually established.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has accepting Xenohaliotis californiensis is “endemic in existing H. tuberculata [abalone] farms in Ireland.”

This follows four outbreaks last year affecting 344,000 abalone in counties Cork, Galway and Kerry and a new infestation at a National University of Ireland, Galway, marine institute.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has received the latest in a long string of censures from the European Court of Justice for failing to comply with European Union (EU) environmental legislation. In this instance Dublin was condemned for not implementing directive 2003/4/EC guaranteeing public access to environmental information, which was supposed to have been written onto its statute book by February 2005.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FRENCH tobacco market is astir and it’s quite possible that such iconic brands as Gitanes and Gauloise, part of the Franco-Spanish Altardis group with some 30% of the French cigarette market, will no longer be independently owned by the year-end.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A LENGTHY row over European Union (EU) energy policy is shaping up following the publication in April of a detailed independent study sponsored by the European Commission of the electricity markets in six EU countries.

The study – Structure and Performance of Six European Wholesale Electricity Markets in 2003, 2004 and 2005 – was drawn up by the consultants London Economics in association with Global Energy Decisions and focuses on the electricity wholesale markets in Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the UK excluding Northern Ireland.…