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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROACTIVE competition inquiry has been launched into the European Union’s (EU) natural gas sector, with the aim of rooting out anti-competitive practices. If the European Commission discovers instances of gas companies breaking existing EU competition law, legal action could follow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIUM has joined the growing list of European Union (EU) member states censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to properly police EU fishing rules in its waters. And again, as with France, Ireland, Denmark and others, the Belgians have been found breaking the Common Fishing Policy (CFP) in a number of ways over the years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the abolition of registration taxes that it says impede the transfer of vehicles to the 16 European Union (EU) member states that impose them. Britain is not among the countries concerned, but they include Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria and Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 26.1 million on 26 programmes promoting the sale within the EU of organic food products, olive oil, milk and cheese, ham, fruit and vegetables, plus some drinks products. There will be matching funding from participating countries Britain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European Commission report has raised concerns that while efforts are being made by European Union (EU) institutions, not enough done to raise people in work out of poverty. It says that while “low pay is obviously an important risk factor…being low-skilled and remaining in unstable and often part-time employment, can also lead to poverty”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND customs officers have blocked an unauthorised shipment of the banned GM maize Bt10, the first discovery of a contaminated consignment arriving in the EU since Brussels approved measures to prevent such illicit imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to press the European Commission to provide a written response to its question on whether it had been satisfied that Lloyd’s of London had been “properly and effectively regulated” between 1978 and 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has found Ireland to still be in breach of the 1976 European Union (EU) directive 76/464/EEC on discharging dangerous substances into the aquatic environment. The ECJ said Ireland’s failures included not controlling all polluting substances listed in the legislation and only protecting 65% of its lakes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTRIES that are members of the European Union’s (EU) Schengen open borders system will be able to access each other’s driving licence data in future, the EU Council of Ministers has decided. The decision is aimed at preventing the re-registering in different EU member states of stolen vehicles, allowing checks to be made following re-registration applications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has been censured again by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over lax pollution controls of its lakes, rivers and sea inlets, many exploited by fish farms. The ECJ said Ireland had failed to comply with a 1976 European Union directive on ‘discharging dangerous substances into the aquatic environment’, by not controlling enough pollutants or protecting enough lakes.…