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BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEGOTIATORS are close to forging an international agreement that would ban vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing from ports worldwide. The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has been hosting the talks, and has reported the "general outlines… on ‘port state’ measures that would deny vessels engaged in IUU fishing access to fishing ports are largely in place."…

BY LARS RUGAARD

CASH shortages, competition from abroad and cost rises threaten to remove one of every three of Denmark’s roughly 35,000 lorry drivers from their trade this year, haulage experts are warning. Speaking to Commercial Motor, a Danish truck driver sitting on the bunk of his Volvo truck sums up his industry’s gloom in one sentence: "Earlier things were better".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CONTROLLED opening of Arctic fisheries made more accessible because of the steady retreat of polar ice through climate change has been called for in a European Commission policy paper.

It wants "a regulatory framework for [those] Arctic high seas not yet covered by an international conservation and management regime before new fishing opportunities arise," saying no fisheries should be opened for any country until such controls are established.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

IT has been a devastating year for Italian hauliers. In the last 10 months, 8,000 mostly single-vehicle hauliers have left the industry according to Gianni Montalli, president of the National Transport Union (CAN FITA Unione Nazionale Imprese di Trasporto).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Australia have signed a wine trade agreement, having expanded its scope to protect Bulgarian and Romanian producers. Because these countries joined the EU in January 2007, they were excluded from the text of the agreement concluded later that year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has expanded the scope of the European Union’s (EU) wine agreement with Australia to protect Bulgarian and Romanian producers. Because these countries joined the EU in January 2007, they were excluded from the agreement concluded later that year.…

BY PAUL RIGG

ROBBERIES, competition from immigrants and the state of the economy are the issues of most pressing concern for Spanish hauliers, according to drivers interviewed in truck stops on the outskirts of Madrid by Commercial Motor.

"I woke up with my kidneys and head hurting like I’d drunk a bottle of whisky," said Elias Calyo, 46, from Andalucia in the south of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has expanded the scope of the European Union’s (EU) wine agreement with Australia to protect Bulgarian and Romanian producers. Because these countries joined the EU in January 2007, they were excluded from the text of the agreement concluded later that year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROMANIAN parliament has flouted the agreement its country signed to gain membership of the European Union (EU) by voting to scrap excise duty collected on traditional home-brewed spirits. This exemption would apply for homemade ‘palinca’ and ‘tuica’ to a maximum quantity of 250 litres of pure alcohol within these drinks per household.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONSTANT European Union (EU) pressure on Romania to cleanse its government of corruption has finally achieved a concrete result, with the sacking of the country’s labour minister – accused of graft. Paul P?curaru was dismissed via presidential decree almost a year after the chief prosecutor of Romania’s National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) requested permission to investigate claims he had asked a local politician to direct contracts to his son’s company.…