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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 149.6 million to Spanish electricity company Viesgo Generación to build a large natural gas-fired combined cycle generating plant in Spain, generating around 800 MWe. The project would entail constructing advanced gas-fired combined-cycle technology with a relatively low environmental impact in a poorer area of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban may have come into force on July 31, but it yet to be implemented in nine out of the 25 EU member states, the European Commission has admitted. Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus and Hungary have not notified Brussels with corresponding national prohibitions.…

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THE UNITED States will have to review countervailing measures it has imposed on privatised British and Spanish steel-makers after a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruled they were partly imposed in breach of WTO rules. The panel however rejected claims that the US had erred in a sunset review of measures imposed against France’s Usinor regarding certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, which should be allowed to stand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LUNG cancer, blamed on smoking by most health professionals, is declining throughout the European Union (EU) amongst men, but not women, according to a new British Medical Journal report. The UK performs well, with lung cancer mortality rates for both men and women falling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) tobacco-advertising ban came into force on Sunday (July 31), prohibiting adverts in most print publications, radio and the Internet, although some countries – notably Germany – have not implemented the law. The 2003 tobacco-advertising directive would be, claimed EU health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou “one of the most effective ways of reducing smoking”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORTERS of pullovers from China worried about the exhaustion of a new quota designed to limit Chinese clothing exports to the European Union (EU) may be offered a legal solution for ensuring their lines can enter the EU.…

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NEW fuel quality standards for vehicles sold in the European Union (EU) from 2008 have been published by the European Commission, which will stop sports utility vehicles (SUVs) operating under laxer emissions rules applying to commercial vans. Instead, under the so-called Euro 5 plan, they would follow tougher regulations for cars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY has become the fourth European Union (EU) country this year to press the European Commission to allow crisis distillation to deal with a major wine grape surplus, warning the situation is so serious, riots could erupt in wine-growing areas.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the abolition of registration taxes that it says impede the transfer of vehicles to the 16 European Union (EU) member states that impose them. Britain is not among the countries concerned, but they include Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria and Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROACTIVE competition inquiry has been launched into the European Union’s (EU) natural gas sector, with the aim of rooting out anti-competitive practices. If the European Commission discovers instances of gas companies breaking existing EU competition law, legal action could follow.…