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BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRISH natural gas company Finavera Ltd claims a technical evaluation of its Lough Allen natural gas field, in the northwest Irish Republic and Northern Ireland has revealed 9.4 trillion cubic feet gas reserves.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal a refusal by the European Commission to pay Euro 154,892 interest on the refunded portion of a Euro 8.8 million fine earlier levied against Ireland’s Irish Sugar, now owned by the Greencore Group plc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has said European Union (EU) victims whose property is damaged by a foreign EU nuclear power operator should launch legal actions in their domestic courts. Miguel Poiares Maduro has advised the ECJ to rule that the 1968 Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, effectively allows aggrieved property owners to choose between their home courts and those of a nuclear plant: "Both courts should….claim…

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 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 Court of Justice has declared illegal a refusal by the European Commission to pay Euro 154,892 interest on a refunded fine levied against Irish Sugar, now owned by Ireland’s Greencore.

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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 Court of Justice has declared illegal a refusal by the European Commission to pay Euro 154,892 interest on a refunded fine levied against Irish Sugar, now owned by Greencore.

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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.…