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BY ALAN OSBORN
IT is probably true, as some anti-tobacco campaigners claim, that if the European Union (EU) had had the statutory authority to act in the public health area in recent years, then the legal crackdown on smokers would have been far tougher than it has been.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN IRISH company’s plan to help 1,600 meat and dairy producers in Latin America adopt technology capturing and disposing of methane has been supported by a US$10 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). AgCert International plc actually wants to spend US$150 million on rolling out these systems over the next three years, especially in Brazil and Mexico.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN IRISH company’s plan to help 1,600 meat and dairy producers in Latin America adopt technology capturing and disposing of methane, creating saleable carbon credits, has been supported by a US$10 million International Finance Corporation loan. AgCert International plc wants to spend US$150 million on rolling out these systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) internal market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has indicated a willingness to compromise with opponents of a proposed EU directive that would force listed companies to appoint in-house audit committee. Speaking to a conference on European corporate governance, in Luxembourg City, McCreevy recognised the critics, whom he said had “woken up somewhat late in the day”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is facing yet more rounds of legal action from the European Commission over its failure to abide by European Union (EU) environmental legislation. In one instance, Ireland has been given a final warning of a likely request it be heavily fined by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for ignoring an earlier ECJ order to better protect the ozone layer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH and Swedish governments are being targeted for legal action over alleged insurance legislation infringements in European Commission’s regular summer round of litigation. It is formally threatening Ireland with a referral to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over national rules preventing the payment of any compensation, whatever the circumstances, from the Irish Insurance Bureau to drivers in an accident where all vehicles involved are uninsured.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT Irish study has found that whilst nurses responded to a hospital campaign to increase hand-washing, almost half of affected doctors still failed to take this basic cleanliness precaution. According to the Oxford-based Journal of Advanced Nursing, only 51% of Ireland hospital staff surveyed followed hand-washing guidelines before a hygiene campaign was launched.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is facing yet another round of legal action from the European Commission over its failure to abide by European Union (EU) environmental legislation affecting fish farming. The Commission has now decided to take Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to stage sufficiently rigorous environmental impact assessments on fish farms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has thrown out a bid by Italy’s Canal SpA to block the European Union (EU)-wide registration by the New York-based Canal Jean Co Inc of its trademark ‘Canal Jean Co’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DRUG officials in the European Union (EU) have confessed to being such cultural dinosaurs, it was five years after reports about ecstasy emerged in youth, music and lifestyle magazines before they started collecting and reporting data on the drug.…