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EU PLANS DRIVING LICENCE DATA SWAP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a proposed European Union (EU) regulation which would allow police and other law enforcement officials within the EU’s Schengen open border area to inspect registration documentation held in all countries of this zone.…
CARIBBEAN FOOD MANUFACTURERS PUSH TO DIVERSIFY
BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain
TIME-WAS that food production in the Caribbean was dominated by commodities, with sugar and bananas being king and queen of island economies. Protected from the rigours of world markets by age-old ties to current or former colonial markets, these cash crop supplies remained largely unchanged for centuries.…
GOVERNMENTS STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN CAROUSEL FRAUD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) VAT laws can be mightily complex, and offer plenty of opportunities for fraudsters revelling in regulations lacking in clarity and simplicity. Add high technology to the mix and carousel fraud was born. It’s a problem that has sparked tough police action and regulatory reform.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROPOSES RETROFITTING BLIND SPOT MIRRORS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LORRIES already on the road in the European Union (EU) will be forced to retrofit blind-spot mirrors or other devices under new legislation proposed by the European Commission. It wants heavy goods vehicles of 3.5 tonnes or more, registered after 2004, retrofitted one year after entry into force of this proposed directive; HGVs registered after 2001, two years afterwards; and lorries registered after 1998, three years afterwards.…
EU ENERGY COMMISSIONER ANDRIS PIEBALGS INTERVIEW
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL
1. One of the EU’s difficulties is that few new power stations are being built. How might a common energy policy meet this deficiency as regards renewable energy and CHP, given that national governments seem reluctant to ensure more capacity?…
EU DIVIDES UP PHILIP MORRIS MONEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COST to Britain’s exchequer of refusing to participate in the European Union’s legal agreement with Philip Morris over illicit cigarette trades has become clearer with the European Commission dividing up the spoils. PMI has promised to pay US$1 billion over 12 years to the European Commission and 10 European Union (EU) member states who have participated in the deal, with the cigarette giant already handing over US$325 million.…
EU LAUNCHES DETAILED RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE DETAILED guts and sinews of the European Research Area have been revealed in the shape of 35 large-scale research projects that will involve the swapping and analysing of data on a major scale.…
EU ACTS AGAINST BLUETONGUE'S NORTHWARD MARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the cattle and sheep disease Bluetongue spreading north in Europe from its usual southern European base, the European Commission and other specialist agencies are investigating why the pathogen has marched northwards. The European Union’s (EU) reference laboratory, at Pirbright, Surrey, has confirmed this strain of Bluetongue hitting livestock in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, was previously unknown in Europe.…
NETHERLANDS PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN
By many measures, the Dutch are the world leaders in paint and coatings which is not quite the same as saying they’re the largest suppliers or that Dutch paints are the best known though they do come at or near the top in both categories.…
DUTCH BITUMEN CARTEL COMPANIES FINED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL cartel, inflating bitumen prices for road projects in the Netherlands, has been punished and broken by the European Commission. It fined 14 companies Euro 266,717 – among them British bitumen suppliers BP and Shell- for participating in a cartel setting the price of this crucial construction material.…