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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a new fishing access deal with Madagascar, allowing Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese to catch tuna in its Indian Ocean waters until December 2006. The EU will pay Madagascar Euro 825,000 this year and next to compensate it for the loss of fish.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A SUCCESSFUL European Union (EU) research project, which has developed plant-based health treatment alternatives to antibiotics in feed for cows and goats, is being expanded into the fish-farming sector. The RUMEN-UP project found 23 out of 500 samples of plant materials with beneficial health effects on ruminants, especially cattle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has highlighted Britain, Germany, Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria, and the only European Union (EU) countries offering drug addiction programmes for young offenders. These countries, its 2005 annual report noted approvingly, have "selective prevention programmes for first-time offenders (largely cannabis users), offering psychological support, training and counselling."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SECURING agreement on important European Union (EU) legislation creating a continent-wide tolling system for all lorries exceeding 3.5 tonnes will be the top transport priority of the EU’s new Luxembourg presidency. The grand duchy’s transport minister Lucien Lux has already discussed the railway aspects of the proposed widened Eurovignette regime with the EU railway federation the CER and has publicly promised to push for agreement.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned that the use of lycopene obtained from Blakeslea trispora as a food colouring may be unsafe. Its scientific panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has noted that it could increase exposure compared with "mean intake from natural dietary sources by a considerable margin".…

Keith Nuthall
BRITISH taxation inched up from 2002 to 2003, but according to the latest comparative European Union (EU)-wide figures, the UK still has one of the lowest European tax burdens. As a proportion of GDP, Britain’s total taxes were 37.1% in 2003, compared with 37% in 2002, up from 36.7% in 1995, before the accession to power of the Labour government.…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

SINCE March 2005, Operation White Whale, an extensive international anti-money-laundering operation spearheaded by the Spain’s National Police (the Policia Nacional), has produced the arrest of 57 people and the laundering of at least Euro 250 million euros obtained through illegal drug trafficking, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry (Ministerio del Interior).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government is likely to lose a European Court of Justice (ECJ) battle with the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to secure additional fishing rights in coastal waters around the Atlantic frontier between Spain and France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPANISH cava maker Castellblanch has failed in an attempt at the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance to secure European Union-wide trademark rights to a castle logo, with the words ‘cristal’ and ‘castellblanch’. This was opposed by France’s Champagne Louis Roederer which claimed it would be confused with its own ‘cristal’ mark.…