Search Results for: Irish
10 results out of 424 results found for 'Irish'.
INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its failure to properly implement the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive. Brussels says there is no guarantee Irish industries and farms will follow the legislation’s environmental rules.…
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Ireland with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to abide by the EU environmental impact assessment directive regarding fish farms. Brussels says that Irish legislation does not allow assessments to take sufficient account of environmentally sensitive sites or of the cumulative effects of smaller individual projects.…
POTATO BLIGHT
BY PHILIP FINE
US biotechnologists have discovered a gene that protects potatoes against late blight, the disease that caused the Irish potato famine and a member of the family of pathogens to which all varieties of commercial potato are still susceptible.…
FISCHLER - IRELAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REDUCTIONS in support to Europe’s sometimes bloated dairy production industry should be handled efficiently in Ireland. EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler told an Irish farmers conference that Ireland already was “the lowest cost milk producer in Europe,” adding he was “confident (it) can diversify into fresh and value-added dairy products.”…
FISCHLER - IRELAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REDUCTIONS in support to Europe’s dairy production industry should be handled efficiently in Ireland via the development of “fresh and value-added dairy products” EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler told an Irish farming conference in Dublin. Speaking on reductions to Common Agricultural Organisation dairy subsidies, he said Ireland already was “the lowest cost milk producer in Europe.”…
FISCHLER - IRELAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REDUCTIONS in support to Europe’s sometimes bloated dairy production industry should be handled efficiently in Ireland. EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler told an Irish farmers conference that Ireland already was “the lowest cost milk producer in Europe,” adding he was “confident (it) can diversify into fresh and value-added dairy products.”…
BAGGAGE HANDLING LOANS
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is planning to help Irish and Italian airports comply with new European baggage inspection regulations. It plans to lend up to Euro 150 million to Italian civil aviation authority ENAC to install security inspection equipment and modify baggage-handling systems at 37 Italian airports.…
LIBERALISATION SURVEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH architects are among the most lightly regulated in the European Union (EU), with their Danish, Irish, Dutch and Swedish colleagues enjoying a similarly light regulatory burden, according to a European Commission-funded survey, promoting liberalisation in Europe’s professions.…
IRISH CIGARETTE BAN
BY MONICA DOBIE
IRELAND will ban smoking in all public places including pubs and restaurants from January 2004 onwards. The announcement came as Ireland’s Office of Tobacco Control released a study which found that people who work in smoky environments are up to 30 per cent more likely to develop heart disease and cancer because of passive smoking.…
TAX REGIMES - EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) Competition Commissioner Mario Monti is to ask his colleagues on the European Commission to ban two special tax regimes – in Netherlands and Belgium – while allowing a threatened taxation system in Ireland to continue.…