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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GRANTS totalling Euro 5 million from the European Commission, Eurocontrol and the Joint Aviation Authorities have been approved for the strengthening Balkans atc services. Funnelled through the EU Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (CARDS) programme, the funds will support civil aviation authorities and air traffic services in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Macedonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded Euro 2.2 million database is being developed in Macedonia to identify and track beef, veal, lamb and goat livestock, monitoring their health status and preventing sick beasts being exported into the EU. The project is being managed by the European Agency for Reconstruction, which recently helped stage a seminar on the system involving EU experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded Euro 2.2 million database is being developed in Macedonia to identify and track beef, pork, veal, lamb and goat livestock, monitoring their health status and preventing sick beasts being exported into the European Union (EU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) funded project has been launched, which will support the restructuring of Macedonia’s steel sector. This Euro 500,000 technical assistance project is being managed by the EU’s European Agency for Reconstruction, which is helping to rebuild the war-damaged economy of the southern Balkans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER privatisation has certainly had its critics, but it has a new supporter in the shape of the European Commission. It has publicly backed the growing privatisation of Europe’s water utilities, with its internal market commissioner praising British government moves to inject competition into its national sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
OPPORTUNITIES for British and other European Union (EU) electricity power companies to participate in the reconstruction and development of war-damaged electricity systems in the Balkans have been opened up by the signing of an agreement to bring the systems into the EU’s regulatory orbit.…

KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION is important in the provision of water services, whether that be to prevent the contamination of supplies by a return of this summer’s floods, or to source drinking water for arid areas where ground reserves are running dry.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken an important step towards giving EU water legislation more teeth, by moving against Belgium’s system of “tacit approvals” of pollution. Belgian law allows companies to assume that they have a right to pollute if they make an application to regulators and then receive no reply.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (general affairs) has approved an intensive double-checking system regarding the trade in steel products between Macedonia and the European Union. Its aim is to boost openness and transparency in the export of Macedonian steel, under the trade agreement Skopje has signed with Brussels, preventing the system being abused.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTENSIVE double-checking system focusing on the trade in steel products between Macedonia and the European Union has been proposed by the European Commission. Its aim is to boost openness and transparency in the export of Macedonian steel, under the trade agreement Skopje signed with Brussels.…