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BY ALAN OSBORN
As with many financial service providers in the EU, the definition of financial adviser differs, often significantly, from one country to another. In its very basic sense – i.e. the provision of financial advice pure and simple, without the add-on of other services that could involve the handling of client money – the profession of fee-paid advisor is a limited one and probably confined to only a few thousand people in Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Union (EU) now committed to pushing the share of renewable energy in the EU electricity market to 20% by 2020, the various arms of the green power sector are fighting for assistance from Brussels and EU member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPANISH government claims that European Union (EU) Common Fisheries Policy conservation and monitoring controls agreed in 2003 were illegal because its representatives were not invited to a key committee meeting in the Spanish language have been rejected by the European Court of Justice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) environment Commissioner will push ahead with legal action after EU member states continued to de-list bathing areas from officially-approved beaches subject to cleanliness tests, especially in Mediterranean holiday spots about to be flooded with British holidaymakers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has relaunched its bid to split the amount of European Union (EU) subsidies paid to EU cotton producers from the volume of cotton sent to market, following an embarrassing court reversal last September. Then, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overturned a 2003 reform along these lines, because of weaknesses in an earlier impact study that had ignored labour expenses and the potential effects on the European ginning industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched a research project – called EuroMedCitrusNet – aimed at reducing the transfer of pathogens from citrus fruits, through processing into final food and drink products, such as juice. Researchers will look at processing chains amongst key Mediterranean suppliers, boosting training and technology, while increasing small and medium-sized citrus fruit business participation in food safety research.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
ALTERNATIVE green energy is taking a big step forward in Europe, with the introduction of the European Union’s (EU) first commercial concentrating solar power (CSP) plant. The 11 megawatt facility, near Seville in Spain, will produce electricity using more than 600 movable mirrors which follow and concentrate the sun’s rays.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Italian ports had the most seizures of counterfeit cigarettes, said OLAF, which said customs teams found 27.7 million sticks in four containers. There were three containers found in Spain with 26.6 million sticks in total; 25.6 million sticks in five containers in Britain; 21.2 million in three containers in Greece; 15.4 million in two containers in Romania; 10 million in one Germany container; and 9.5 million in a Belgium container.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR fight against salmonella contamination of food production has been launched by the European Commission, which has secured approval for a regulation forcing member states to reduce the prevalence of the disease amongst their broiler (poultry meat) flocks to 1% or less by 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANOTHER attempt by the Spanish government to force the European Union (EU) into giving it new fishing rights in the North Sea and the Baltic has been slapped down by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Madrid for a third time now, has claimed unfair treatment from the EU Council of Ministers for ignoring its plea for fishing rights based on special transitional rights to these waters from 1996 to 2002, which were replaced by closely restricted access afterwards.…