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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH, French and Spanish governments have come under increased political pressure to improve their conservation of fishing stocks and monitoring of illicit catches through rulings from the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

Judges backed claims from the European Commission that Spain had failed to stage inspections of fishing vessels as mandated by European Union (EU) legislation, had not prevented fishing after quotas had been exhausted, and not taken “penal or administrative measures against anyone for breaking these limits”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has come under increased political pressure to improve its conservation of fishing stocks and monitoring of illicit catches through a ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

Judges backed claims from the European Commission that Dublin had been breaking European Union (EU) laws by:

*Failing to agree detailed guidelines on exploiting its allocated fishing quotas;

*Not adequately monitoring fishing boats, inspecting landings and recording catches;

*Allowing fishing boats to continue working when their quotas are exhausted; and

*Not launching administrative or criminal proceedings against vessel masters breaking fishing regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) may have created a new opportunity to market health insurance to European Union (EU) immigrants, underlining the value of commercial policies in preventing deportation. Judges ruled that a neither children possessing citizenship of one EU country, or their parents, can be forced from a different EU state, if the child has “sickness insurance covering all risks in the host country” as well as resources ensuring they do not “burden the (local) social assistance scheme”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW president of the European Commission, the former Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, has made clear that for the next five years at least there will be a reform-minded team at work in Brussels driven by a powerful desire to eliminate accounting fraud, inefficiency and the protection of special interests.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE and Cyprus are taking over the key European Commission jobs in the environmental health world, in the new team unveiled by incoming Brussels president José Durão Barroso. Taking over from Sweden’s Margot Wallström as environment commissioner will be Greek Stavros Dimas, who has served as stand in employment commissioner since his compatriot Anna Diamontopoulou returned to national politics in March.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN the age of the Euro-sceptic politician, no one can deny that European Union (EU) institutions have a lot of power, and that their authority is felt in every economic sector, including the insurance business. With European rules currently being debated that will shape the future of car insurance, for instance, it is futile to deny the industry follows EU politics as closely as it does national public affairs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the summer holiday season in full swing, hold those calls to Stockholm: the Swedes have more time off than other Europeans, Germany’s IW economic institute has claimed. In an international survey of holidays taken by workers in 2003 in 14 western European countries, the Cologne-based think tank said Sweden was closely followed by the Netherlands (31 days) and Denmark (30 days).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is being threatened with the levying of large daily recurring fines from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) if it continues to ignore a ruling telling it to cease overgrazing by sheep in protected bog areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is being formally threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over refusing to scrap its excise stamp system, where tobacco manufacturers pay duty by ‘buying’ stamps from tax authorities. The European Commission says this illegally prevents traders moving Irish-stamped tobacco around the European Union, where different excise rates may apply.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is being formally threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its refusal to scrap an excise stamp system, where tobacco traders pay duty on their products by ‘buying’ stamps from tax authorities.…