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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Portugal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) alleging illegally excess red tape regarding the export of excisable goods – notably alcoholic drinks. Lisbon insists an administrative document is sent to foreign European Union (EU) customs officials six working hours before their released by exporting Portuguese warehouses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Portugal to the European Court of Justice alleging illegally excess red tape regarding the export of excisable goods – including perfumes. Lisbon insists that an administrative document is sent to foreign European Union customs officials administering imports of these goods six working hours before their released by exporting Portuguese warehouses.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in South Africa

SOUTH Africa is in a race against time to ensure the country’s

burgeoning economy is not crippled by fuel shortages, forcing its oil and gas companies to innovate to ensure security of supply, notably from neighbouring countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has added to its protected traditional designations list Portuguese ‘Transmontano’ pork products; Hungarian salami from Szeged; Italian Pecorino di Filiano cheese, Spain’s Cereza del Jerte cherries, Lenteja Pardina de Tierra de Campos lentils and Garbanzo de Fuentesaúco chickpeas; Cyprus’ Loukoumi Geroskipou confectionary; and Slovakia’s Skalický trdelník patisserie products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to protect eight traditionally made European food products from being copied by food manufacturers based outside the regions where they have historically been made. Brussels has added Portuguese ‘Transmontano’ pork products; Hungarian salami from Szeged; Italian Pecorino di Filiano cheese, and others to its list of protected designations list.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LETS Hope Galileo really makes a difference to European Union (EU) global positioning and navigation telecommunication services. Because, now the additional spending to guarantee its deployment has got the formal go ahead from the EU Council of Ministers, it is going to cost EU taxpayers dear.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has blocked European Commission proposals that flat rate road taxes be scrapped across Europe in favour of levies varied according to vehicle CO2 emissions. Whilst ministers this week (Tues) agreed on the need for "fiscal measures in passenger car taxation for the purpose of discouraging environmentally damaging behaviour," they did not agree an EU directive was necessary to order this in all 27 member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PORTUGUESE presidency of the European Union (EU) has called for compromise proposals on the European Commission’s energy unbundling plans, under discussion at a Council of Ministers meeting on Monday (Dec 3). A paper released by Lisbon clarified the split between member states: supporting the proposal are Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Romania and Sweden; opposing are France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg and Slovakia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee wants European Union (EU) rules to insist that biofuel production is environmentally sustainable, even an increase in this growing fuel sector reduces CO2 emissions. The call was made in amendments tabled to European Commission proposed reforms to the EU fuel quality directive to reduce CO2 production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FUTURE of the European Union’s (EU) global positioning satellite project Galileo has been all but secured with the EU Council of Ministers agreeing to raise an additional Euro 2.4 billion to launch the system into the sky.…