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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISCHARGE of pollution at sea has been criminalised within European Union (EU) territorial waters, if carried out with intent, recklessly or negligently. A directive forcing EU member states to introduce national bans was agreed last week (Tues 12-7) by the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISCHARGE of pollution at sea has been criminalised within European Union (EU) territorial waters, if carried out with intent, recklessly or negligently. A directive forcing EU member states to introduce national bans was agreed yesterday (Tues 12-7) by the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GIBRALTAR’S tax and customs authorities are breaking European Union (EU) law by not only failing to cooperate with those of foreign EU members states, such as Spain, but with mainland British agencies, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Spain with legal action for failing to obey a European Court Justice order to relinquish ‘golden share’ rights over tobacco giant Tabacalera. Judges told Spain May 2003 to liberalise a law allowing the Spanish government control over the company’s winding-up, de-merger, merger and disposal of assets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that in future, Spanish food products should not be marketed with the words ‘biológico’ or ‘bio’ if they have not been organically produced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SECOND attempt is being made by the European Commission to criminalise counterfeiting and piracy across the European Union (EU), following the rejection of similar plans by the European Parliament last year. The Commission has re-tabled legislation insisting EU member states impose jail terms or significant fines on offenders, whilst ensuring their police and customs officers can confiscate fake goods and close businesses involved in their manufacture.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN still suffers from comparatively high rates of industrial action compared with its European Union (EU) competitors, according to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The EU agency says that whilst the UK lost 904,900 working days through strikes in 2004, Germany lost just 50,673, and the Netherlands 15,000 (in 2003).…

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. Speaking at this week’s EU Council of Ministers, agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel “acknowledged the serious situation of the sector”, but would not yet agree, saying the “request was still under thorough examination”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a final appeal by three European Union (EU) stainless steel flat product makers against the imposition of heavy fines for forming a cartel. Spain’s Acerinox must now pay Euro 3.13 million, Italy’s ThyssenKrupp Acciai speciali Terni SpA Euro 4.03 million and Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Stainless Steel also Euro 4.03 million.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has been advised to find Spain in breach of the European Union’s (EU) 1979 shellfish water quality directive, especially for the Ría de Vigo, in Galicia. The legislation orders effective pollution reduction programmes for such key shellfish harvesting waters, but ECJ advocate general Francis Jacobs has found Spain wanting in this regard.…