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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Portuguese electricity utility EDP (Energias de Portugal) up to Euro 180 million to retrofit three coal-fired power stations in Spain and Portugal. The plan is to research, design, build and install clean coal technology, namely flue gas abatement systems, removing SO2, NOx and particulates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EU winemakers have attacked European Commission proposals to reform the EU wine market with plans to grub up more vineyards.The Commission wants to grub up 400,000 hectares of EU vineyards due to over-production and poor sales. Participants at a European Parliament hearing late last week agreed the EU wine market needed change but claimed the EU should act to increase demand, not slash production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PORTUGAL has been ordered by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to reform its copyright law, so that the country’s public libraries have a duty to pay authors when they lend books. By not writing such a commitment into its national law, the Portuguese government has been censured by the court for breaching European Union directive 92/100/EEC on rental right, lending right and copyright.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Portuguese utility EDP (Energias de Portugal) up to Euro 180 million to retrofit three coal-fired power stations, one in southern Portugal (4 units 314 MWe each); and two in Spain’s Asturias region (350 MWe and 556 MWe).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PORTUGAL is facing possible European Court of Justice (ECJ) action after it exploited a concession over wastewater treatment to conduct blatant pollution of the Atlantic Ocean, alleges the European Commission. Lisbon was given permission in 2001 to follow lower standards in pumping wastewater from the 720,000-people Estoril region than are usually required under the European Union (EU) urban wastewater treatment directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERE is a large and growing list of regional money laundering organisations, with formal or informal links with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), so a question mark could hang over why the Commonwealth is getting involved in fighting dirty money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD’S largest solar photovoltaic power plant is now under construction in Portugal’s sunny Algarve region. When it starts generating electricity early next year, it should power 8,000 homes, saving 30,000 tonnes annually in greenhouse gas emissions. There will be 52,000 photovoltaic modules on the plant on the 60-hectare site located on a south-facing hillside at Serpa, which is one of the sunniest spots in Europe.…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

IMPROVEMENTS in Portugal’s ability to detect crime detection, combined with increased vulnerability within the tourist property development arena, mean we could see another Operation White Whale in the next few years, its tip emerging in Portugal rather than Spain, experts warn.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

VOLKSWAGEN has persuaded the Portugal government to subsidise a training programme for workers at its Portuguese subsidiary Auto Europa: unfortunately, the European Commission thinks the payments may be illegal and could block them. An inquiry launched by the executive of the European Union (EU) will check whether this planned Euro 3.5 million grant follows the EU’s rules on ‘state aid’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POLITICAL battle is underway at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over whether EU import duties on unwrought aluminium should be retained or scrapped. The struggle pits Poland and eight other member states against Germany, which wants the current 6% duties retained.…