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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has taken another step towards securing valuable fishing rights for its fleets in the Pacific, with the EU Council of Ministers approving an access agreement with Micronesia. For nine years, Spanish and Portuguese longliners along with Spanish and French freezer seiners will be able to fish the archipelago’s rich tuna fishing grounds north of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to spend Euro 702,993 over three years on promoting Portuguese Madeira wine in the USA, Canada, Brazil and Japan. The money will be funelled to the

Instituto do Vinho da Madeira (IVM), and will be matched by funding from the Portugal government and private sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to stage negotiations with the Peruvian government on forging a fishing access agreement with the European Union (EU), its first struck with a South American country. If successful, a deal would be a rich prize for EU fishermen, given the plentiful stocks that teem Peru’s deep Pacific Ocean territorial waters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that hand-delivered and mailed legal papers have the same legal authority under European Union (EU) law. It says that if two sets of documents are sent by both means, their date of receipt depends on which arrived first.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) finance ministers have agreed to add district heating to the list of sectors for which member states can levy an optional reduced 5.5% VAT rate until 2010. The agreement was struck after Poland lifted its opposition to a deal following a dispute over social housing VAT.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of a rich nine-year fishing access deal struck between the European Union (EU) and the Federated States of Micronesia, in the western Pacific, have been released by the European Commission.

Noting that the western Pacific is “the richest tuna fishery ground in the world (it accounts for 50% of total tuna catches world-wide)”, the Commission stressed: “The current state of the stocks is good and that, for certain species, the maximum safe level of exploitation has not been reached yet.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A DECISION by the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance to uphold a move by the European Commission to block the proposed acquisition of Gas de Portugal by Energias and ENI has dismayed the European electricity industry, which believes the prohibition stands in the way of creating a genuine pan-European electricity market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the Portuguese government to grant Euro 45.2 million in state aid to pharmaceutical company Portela and C° SA (BIAL), for researching and developing two new medicines for the central nervous system. Brussels approved the subsidy on regional development grounds because the company is based in a poor area of northern Portugal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DRUG officials in the European Union (EU) have confessed to being such cultural dinosaurs, it was five years after reports about ecstasy emerged in youth, music and lifestyle magazines before they started collecting and reporting data on the drug.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE and Italy will share Euro 1.57 million of European Union (EU) money for promoting the sale of their hams within the EU over the next three years, along with their cheeses and wines. The countries will provide matching national funding.…