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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment of three national subsidy schemes for the European Union (EU) food sector, using its powers to block or approve state aid schemes to ensure a level EU commercial playing field. It has allowed the payment of GBPounds 2.25 million by the UK government on the Meat Generic Advertising Scheme for Wales, from April 2006 to March 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to force all European Union (EU) member states to have a high standard of policies and programmes to prevent floods, while dealing with damage caused when that is not possible. It has proposed a directive that would order national governments, including Britain, to follow a detailed blueprint for their anti-flood policies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the Irish Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to grant Euro 48.25 million to help Centocor Inc. build a biopharmaceutical production plant on a greenfield site at Ringaskiddy, County Cork, Ireland. Brussels approved this state aid saying it would not distort competition within the European Union (EU).…

BY MARK ROWE

EXPORTS of Lithuanian beer rose by 51.4% in 2005, according to the Lithuanian Breweries Association, to 1.518 million dekalitres – exceeding the combined volumes of the neighbouring Estonian and Latvian beer markets. Domestic consumption was more modest but still saw a healthy growth of 4.5% – though according to a spokesman for brewer Gubernija, the domestic market is loyal, with up to 97% of the domestic market divided between Lithuanian breweries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SPANISH government has failed at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to free itself from some fish stocks conservation rules administered by the European Commission, notably restricting its fishing fleet’s catches in the Irish Box. Spain alleged at the court that these rules amounted to national discrimination, illegal under EU treaties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has demonstrated that there are limits to the authority coastal states may have over its fishing fleets in international access deals by refusing to renew a protocol with Angola. Indeed, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to denounce a 1989 agreement underpinning a series of access deals, after refusing to accept a new Angolan law on ‘biological aquatic resources’.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
IRELAND’S Celtic Tiger economy may have lost a little of its bounce recently, with double-digit annual growth figures no longer predicted. However, the beast is still in fine fettle, as a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) observer report notes: “The economy has bounced back.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for failing over many years to communicate crucial fishing data by computer to the European Commission. Judges said that by delaying until this year the installation of computer data equipment that was supposed to be in place by 1999, Ireland had "failed to fulfil its obligations" under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN has been given a generally positive report on its environmental performance by a detailed and long-term European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Overall, the EEA said that the UK was "fortunate to have implemented a series of structural economic changes in the recent past that have brought environmental improvements".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IRELAND’S Celtic Tiger economy may have lost a little of its bounce recently, with double-digit annual growth figures no longer predicted. However, the beast is still in fine fettle, as a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) observer report notes: “The economy has bounced back.…