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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a proposed European Union (EU) regulation which would allow police and other law enforcement officials within the EU’s Schengen open border area to inspect registration documentation held in all countries of this zone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

JEANS company Diesel has lost a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) where it was trying to block Polish company Montex from exporting Diesel-branded jeans from Poland to Ireland, where it has no trademark protection. Diesel argued it had the right to stop consignments crossing Germany, even though they were destined for Ireland, because it did control German trademark rights to the brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has refused to block Polish company Montex from exporting Diesel-branded jeans from Poland to Ireland, where it has no trademark protection. Diesel argued it had the right to stop consignments crossing Germany, even though they were destined for Ireland, because it did control German trademark rights to the brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed claims from the European Commission that fees demanded by the Irish government for participation in environmental impact assessments (EIA) are illegal. The court has ruled that because the fees are low (Pounds 20 for local authority and Euro 45 for Planning Appeals Board inquiries), they are not an illegal "obstacle to the exercise of the rights of participation" under the EU’s EIA directives 85/337/EEC and 97/11/EC.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

CONTRARY to expectations earlier this year, the drinks industry has been let off relatively lightly in the long-awaited ‘communication’ (policy paper) from the European Commission on alcohol. The paper sets out five policy priorities, emphasising the protection of young people and children and on the reduction of alcohol-related traffic accidents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH fishermen have been allocated one of the smaller national envelopes of money from the incoming European Fisheries Fund (EFF), whose money has now been split amongst European Union (EU) member states by the European Commission. Out of the Euro 3.8 billion available from 2007 to 2013, only Euro 122 million has been allocated to the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving towards supporting environment-friendly road transport, rather than dedicating resources to promoting public transport, a European Parliament debate organised by the Automobile and Society Forum, has heard. The European Commission is currently reviewing its 2001 transport white paper and its working papers have noted "disappointment" over the results of the EU’s pro-public transport policies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRELAND has installed pollution reduction programmes designed to protect key shellfish waters, says the European Commission. This follows a 2003 European Court of Justice censure saying 14 shellfish waters had been left at risk, breaking the European Union shellfish water directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) internal market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has warned the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) its oncoming small and medium-sized business (SME) standards had better be user-friendly, or Brussels will ignore them. He told a meeting of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Ireland, in Dublin, that the European Commission would actively engage in a public consultation following its issuing a of draft SME accounting standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRELAND has at last put in place pollution reduction programmes designed to protect key shellfish waters, following intense legal pressure from the European Commission. It secured in 2003 from the European Court of Justice a censure of Irish inaction in this regards, with judges saying 14 shellfish waters had been left at risk, breaking the European Union shellfish water directive.…