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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has demonstrated that there are limits to the authority coastal states may have over its fishing fleets in international access deals by refusing to renew a protocol with Angola. Indeed, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to denounce a 1989 agreement underpinning a series of access deals, after refusing to accept a new Angolan law on ‘biological aquatic resources’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Spain for failing to keep water standards sufficiently unpolluted in the key shellfish production and ecotourism region of Galicia. Judges agreed with the European Commission that Spain should have established a focused water pollution prevention plan, under the terms of the European Union’s (EU) shellfish water directive (79/923/EEC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined 16 firms Euro 290.71 million for operating a cartel in the plastic industrial bags market, in clear violation of European Union (EU) fair trade rules. One British participant – British Polythene Industries PLC – escaped being penalised, along with Belgium’s Combipac BV, however, after they tipped off the Commission about the cartel, which covered Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has retrospectively approved Spain’s aiding its coal industry by an average of Euro 1 billion annually between 2003 and 2005. Brussels said Madrid had "reduced significantly" its subsidies during this time. This decision followed demands for additional information about the payments from the Commission, which had found an initial declaration insufficiently detailed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to invest Euro 70 million in Poland’s Dolna Odra coal-fired power station, buying a minority stake from Spain’s Endesa, which is buying its three plants. Endesa will revise coal purchases – currently shipped from Upper Silesia, and spend Euro 200 million on desulphurisation and other environmental equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

ENDS…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SPANISH government has failed at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to free itself from some fish stocks conservation rules administered by the European Commission, notably restricting its fishing fleet’s catches in the Irish Box. Spain alleged at the court that these rules amounted to national discrimination, illegal under EU treaties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the launch of two related publishing logistics joint ventures, which will work in Spain and Portugal. One will focus on book distribution, and will be owned by Compañía de Distribución Integral Logista SA (Logista) and Editorial Planeta SA, both of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

ENDS…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union and Norway have divided up common stocks within the North Sea for 2006, overcoming difficult conservation problems, especially regarding cod. Brussels and Oslo have agreed on a long-term management plan for cod, to come into effect when the stock has returned to safe biological levels.…