Search Results for: Irish

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has called on the European Commission to frame an action plan on simplifying red tape for the fishing industry, “reducing their bureaucratic workload and the restrictions that bear down on fishermen”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has released plans to lend Denmark’s DONG up to Pounds 60 million to help fund the construction of a 90MW offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, off Barrow-in-Furness. The planned power station should produce 305GWh annually, equalling the power consumption of more than 65,000 households.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured the Irish government for committing what it calls “general and persistent breaches of the (European Union) waste directive”. Judges said Dublin’s failure to introduce an effective permit system for waste handlers had sparked uncontrolled dumping, to which it sometimes turned a blind eye.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is being taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its failure to order environmental impact assessments of pig rearing units before they are set up. The result of this, said the European Commission, which has launched the action is that “the public and the environment may suffer nuisance and harm”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWAY has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the WTO, where it is protesting against the imposition of temporary safeguard tariff quotas, minimum import prices and demanding of securities by the EU to protect the Scottish and Irish salmon industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRISH Sugar owner Greencore’s legal bid to force the European Commission to pay Euro 154,892 interest on a refunded fine has an additional lease of life, with the European Court of Justice rejecting a claim by the European Commission of inadmissibility.…

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 LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas

THERE is another side to the loss of life and devastation wreaked in the USA by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis last year, a market reaction that has brought unsought benefits to the US paint and coatings industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SECURING agreement on important European Union (EU) legislation creating a continent-wide tolling system for all lorries exceeding 3.5 tonnes will be the top transport priority of the EU’s new Luxembourg presidency. The grand duchy’s transport minister Lucien Lux has already discussed the railway aspects of the proposed widened Eurovignette regime with the EU railway federation the CER and has publicly promised to push for agreement.…