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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced another 28 protected food products that can only be marketed in the European Union with their traditional name, if they are produced in their home region using time-honoured production methods. Newly protected products include Corsican olive oil; Flemish almond cake Geraardsbergse mattentaart; Irish Connemara ‘hill lamb’; and others: see http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/newsroom/en/252.htm…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEPs have attacked widespread confiscations at European Union (EU) airports of duty-free alcohol from transit passengers over new anti-terrorist rules. Regulations imposed after the UK bomb plot last year mean intra-EU flight passengers can only carry onboard liquids up to 100 millilitres, in sealed transparent plastic bags.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WRITERS IN the Republic of Ireland are celebrating a victory at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that will ensure that Irish libraries pay them when their books are borrowed.

Ireland, the ECJ ruled on January 11, went too far from the spirit of the 1992 European directive on lending rights when, in its Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000, it exempted all public libraries from the need to pay public lending rights.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE IRISH government has been formally threatened with European Court of Justice (ECJ) action by the European Commission, over Ireland’s fixing of minimum and maximum prices of cigarettes. Brussels claims that such systems have already been declared illegal in previous similar cases by the court, which has found them breaching European Union treaty commitments protecting competition.…

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 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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRISH food health officials have been fighting the first ever outbreak of Xenohaliotis Californiensis in the Republic of Ireland, which has been detected in four abalone growing sites in the country’s south-west. Tests confirmed the presence of the pathogen from this summer at Bere Island and Cape Clear – County Cork; Claddaghduff – Galway; and Castlegregory – Kerry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved Irish government plans to spend Euro 65.5 million on capital investments in six small regional airports in Ireland. The money will be spent 2006-10 on expanding facilities and improving safety standards at Donegal, Sligo, Knock, Galway, Kerry and Waterford.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The Dutch are Europe’s top recyclers of household rubbish, recycling 65% of their total waste according to a new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Next come the Austrians at 59% and the Germans at 58% says the report though it notes that in parts of Germany some local areas charge per kilo of waste not recycled and the regional collection of recyclable materials goes up to more than 65 per cent.…