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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR a local government job with real pay prospects – go to Romania. That would appear to be the message of recent collective pay award statistics released by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, (an EU agency).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR a truly well-paid metalworking job – go to Romania, my son. That would appear to be the message of recent collective pay award statistics released by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, (an EU agency).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISASTERS caused by the tailings pond disasters at Baia Mare, Romania, and Aznalcóllar, Spain, have generated a major rethink in Brussels about the suitability of regulating potentially toxic mining waste under general European Union (EU) waste and landfill legislation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEEN in the context of the past decade, the entry of 10 new member states to the European Union (EU) which took place on May 1 has proved nothing like the disaster for the nuclear industry that was once feared.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is signalling growing confidence in the ability of Romanian public authorities to handle complex large-scale utility projects, through the award of loans and grants for development schemes. Romanian administrative standards have been criticised in the past few years for holding up the country’s progress towards joining the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is signalling growing confidence in the ability of Romanian public authorities to handle complex large-scale utility projects, through the award of loans and grants for development schemes. Romanian administrative standards have been criticised in the past few years for holding up the country’s progress towards joining the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved European Commission plans to re-erect anti-dumping duties against two Romanian producers of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel, declared illegal last year by the European Court of Justice over administrative mistakes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESERVE anti-dumping duties against two Romanian producers of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel are to be re-imposed, even though they had last year been declared illegal by the European Court of Justice.

Judges had ruled last January that the European Commission made administrative errors when fixing the level of protection required for European Union (EU) producers from exports made by Petrotub SA and Republica SA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MUTUAL trade between the European Union (EU) and Romania in a range of tobacco products will become duty free by 2007, easing the eastern European country’s anticipated EU accession of that year. A trade agreement phases out duties on cigarettes (including those flavoured with cloves), cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, smoking tobacco, homogenised or reconstituted tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER a long period of consultation, a comprehensive directive protecting the European Union’s (EU) groundwater reserves has been proposed by the European Commission, which would force Member States to establish and police locally sensitive pollution limits. The legislation would insist that national governments carefully monitor groundwater quality and take steps to reverse its pollution, where it has exceeded these self-imposed thresholds.…