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DIESEL MINIMUM EXCISE RATES SHOULD INCREASE SAY MEPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s economics committee has called for the European Union’s (EU) minimum rate of excise duty on diesel to be raised to that for unleaded petrol: from the current Euro 302/1,000 litres to Euro 359/1,000 litres by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016.…
EUROPE INCHES TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GENERATION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
BY MARK ROWE
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the UK government that it intends to build a new generation of nuclear power plants stands out, not just because of the scale of the proposals, but because it is the first such comprehensive initiative in Europe for some years.…
VAT ON CAR TAXATION CHALLENGED BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken another step to prevent the levying of VAT on car registration taxes charged within a package price by automobile dealers, telling Austria, Finland and Malta to stop this double taxation. It has threatened legal action if it is not obeyed.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE WANTS MORE EXCISE DUTY FOR DIESEL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s economics committee wants the European Union’s (EU) minimum rate of excise duty on diesel raised to the level for unleaded petrol: from the current Euro 302/1,000 litres to the petrol level of Euro 359/1,000 litres by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016.…
EU ROUND UP - EU RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE EMISSIONS TRADING AND RENEWABLES PROPOSALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE raft of new legislation designed to force the European Union (EU) into further reducing its greenhouse gas emissions has been tabled by the European Commission. As expected, it has proposed targets that biofuels command 10% of the EU’s liquid fuel consumption by 2020.…
GREENHOUSE GAS TRADING PROPOSALS WILL CREATE DIFFICULTIES AND HEADACHES FOR EU AUTO-MANUFACTURERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILE most informed people now agree it is important that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced across the global economy, the question about which methods to choose for achieving this have generated far less consensus and nowhere is this truer than with the road transport sector.…
EIB FUNDS NEW BOTTLE AROMATICS PLANT IN POLAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND’S Polski Koncern Naftowy (PKN) Orlen SA will construct two new aromatics plants that will produce chemical intermediates for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins used in the packaging industry, following a Euro 300 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB).…
EU MINISTERS AGREE SPIRITS LABELLING LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved a new regulation on labelling spirits drinks. Sweden and Poland opposed the law, because it allows for drinks labelled ‘vodka’ to be made from non-traditional ingredients.
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POLAND FACES ECJ ACTION OVER GAS EXPLORATION RULES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Poland with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its system for awarding prospecting, exploring and producing rights for natural gas within its territory. Brussels claims the Polish system is insufficiently transparent and open to all interested parties as regards standards mandated by European Union directive 94/22/EC.…
RUSSIA PUSHING ENERGY RELATIONS TO BREAKING POINT WITH NEIGHBOURING STATES
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has engaged in a series of political and economic spats with its former Soviet satellites and the European Union (EU) in the first years of the 21st century. And while stand-offs over Belarus sugar and Moldovan wine might raise eyebrows in the West, disputes over the vast energy resources in Russia and its Central Asian neighbours carry an altogether darker shade, mainly because Russia supplies 25% of the EU’s oil and 25% of its gas.…