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PORTUGAL WIND FARM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has decided to lend Portugal’s Parques Eólicos Grupo Generg group around Euro 230 million to help it construct and operate 11 grid-connected wind farms, with a total generation capacity of 443 MW. The plants would be sited across Portugal and would cost the company around Euro 460 million in total to set up.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER a long period of consultation, a comprehensive directive protecting the European Union’s (EU) groundwater reserves has been proposed by the European Commission, which would force Member States to establish and police locally sensitive pollution limits. The legislation would insist that national governments carefully monitor groundwater quality and take steps to reverse its pollution, where it has exceeded these self-imposed thresholds.…
BRUSSELS DEMONSTRATION
BY ALAN OSBORN
AGRICULTURE ministers of five European Union (EU) countries have pledged to reject the European Commission’s proposals for ending tobacco-growing subsidies and say they will draw up an alternative scheme aimed at continuing production. A letter signed by the agriculture ministers of Greece, Spain, Italy, France and Portugal warned the Commission of the “very serious” social and employment impact of its plan, which they say will lead to widespread job losses with “grave” social consequences.…
ITU RANKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…
ITU RANKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…
PORTUGAL ECJ CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PORTUGUESE government is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission over its failure to properly police European Union (EU) legislation imposing maximum driving hours on hauliers. Brussels says it may take Lisbon to the European Court of Justice unless it shows within two months how it will increase the number of checks it makes on lorry drivers’ work records.…
HOPS REFORM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLANNED reform of the European Union’s (EU) Euro 12.5 million-per-year hop subsidy regime could push hop producers towards promoting speciality varieties, of interest to brewers seeking an edge in flavour and bitterness, a National Hop Association of England spokesman has said.…
MARINE EQUIPMENT DIRECTIVE
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Italy, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, Greece and Finland with legal action at the European Court of Justice for failing to implement European Union (EU) legislation on marine equipment. The 2002 directive ‘laying down quality requirements and testing standards for equipment to be placed on board an EU ship’ aims to enhance sea safety and prevent marine pollution through a harmonised enforcement of international rules regarding onboard equipment.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of a deal struck with the Ivory Coast that will allow European Union (EU) fishing boats access to its rich tropical fish reserves this year and next. It has asked EU ministers to approve a deal allowing 600 GRT of Spanish demersal vessels to fish of the west African country, along with 18 tuna seiners from France and 21 from Spain; five Portuguese and 15 Spanish surface longliners and seven pole-and-line tuna vessels from France and five from Spain.…
MARINE EQUIPMENT DIRECTIVE
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Italy, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, Greece and Finland with legal action at the European Court of Justice for failing to implement European Union (EU) legislation on marine equipment. The 2002 directive ‘laying down quality requirements and testing standards for equipment to be placed on board an EU ship’ aims to enhance sea safety and prevent marine pollution through a harmonised enforcement of international rules regarding onboard equipment.…