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Keith Nuthall
THE CREATION of a new ground-handling joint venture for Portuguese airports has been approved by the European Commission; it has authorised the merging of the groundhandling division of private airline Portugália into the service offered by national carrier TAP (Transportes Aereos Portugueses).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIX year fishing agreement struck between the European Commission and the Seychelles has reduced access for European Union (EU) tuna boats to answer criticism that similar past deals have been emptying developing world waters of fish. The new agreement with the Seychelles – lasting from January 2005 to 2011 – cuts fishing opportunities for tuna long-liners by 15% by 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission under incoming energy Commissioner Lázló Kovács could look to Russia and the Ukraine as the key guarantors of Europe’s future gas and oil supplies. Kovács, a Hungarian, has told the European Parliament that he intends to establish “real cooperation” with these countries as a first priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 855,000 promoting Portuguese wine in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, China and Japan. The Portuguese government and private sources will also contribute to a total promotional budget of Euro 1.7 million over three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added seven traditional food products to the EU register of protected geographical indications: Spanish beef Ternera de Navarre, Carne de Vacuno del País Vasco and Carne de Cantabria and veal Carne de la Sierra de Guadarrama, Portuguese sausages Farinheira de Estremoz e Borba, Italian Kiwi fruits Latina and Valle del Belice and France’s Noix du Périgord nuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will spend Euro 855,000 on promoting the sale of Portuguese wine in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, China and Japan. The money will be combined with money from the Portuguese government and private sources, to create a total promotional budget of Euro 1.7 million, to be spent over the next three years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW president of the European Commission, the former Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, has made clear that for the next five years at least there will be a reform-minded team at work in Brussels driven by a powerful desire to eliminate accounting fraud, inefficiency and the protection of special interests.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE and Cyprus are taking over the key European Commission jobs in the environmental health world, in the new team unveiled by incoming Brussels president José Durão Barroso. Taking over from Sweden’s Margot Wallström as environment commissioner will be Greek Stavros Dimas, who has served as stand in employment commissioner since his compatriot Anna Diamontopoulou returned to national politics in March.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added five additional traditional Iberian meat products to the European Union’s (EU) register of protected geographical indications. They are Spanish beef lines Ternera de Navarre, Carne de Vacuno del País Vasco and Carne de Cantabria and veal Carne de la Sierra de Guadarrama veal, plus Portuguese sausages Farinheira de Estremoz e Borba.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL work accident statistics are keenly examined by occupational health practitioners, but they do not enable the safety of British workplaces to be compared against other European countries; that is where Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical agency comes in.…