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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH and Finnish governments have failed in a legal attempt to scrap the European Union’s (EU) working time directive regarding professional road transport drivers. Both countries claimed at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that the legislation should not have applied to self-employed drivers, but this was rejected by the ECJ, along with other complaints.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN the age of the Euro-sceptic politician, no one can deny that European Union (EU) institutions have a lot of power, and that their authority is felt in every economic sector, including the insurance business. With European rules currently being debated that will shape the future of car insurance, for instance, it is futile to deny the industry follows EU politics as closely as it does national public affairs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
If a lawyer in Germany suspects that a client engages in money laundering, there is no obligation to report this if the information is obtained in the context of judicial proceedings or in the course of ascertaining the legal position for the client.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is Europe’s laggard for implementing European Union (EU) environmental law, the European Commission has concluded. Its latest assessment of compliance with EU green regulations and directives notes 38 cases of France being censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) or threatened with legal action by the Commission over non-compliance with environmental legislation in 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) says the old 15 member European Union’s (EU) greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years. Sadly, proactive anti-global warming measures were not top of the agency’s reasons for the cut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ENERGY portfolio at the European Commission is being downgraded this November with the departure of Spain’s Loyola de Palacio, a vice-president as well as an energy commissioner. Hungary’s foreign minister László Kovacs – who will be a standard commissioner without the transport portfolio also commanded by De Palacio – is replacing her.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALCOPOPS have had a bad rap. They are viewed, whether correctly or accurately, as the drink that weans young people from Coca-Cola and 7-Up into the world of alcohol, without them learning how to drink sensibly. They are also the drinks industry’s key innovation of the last decade, creating a new sector that – before a recent decline in popularity – seemed on course to eclipse some established products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is Europe’s laggard for implementing European Union (EU) environmental law, the European Commission has concluded. It its latest assessment of compliance with EU green regulations and directives, it notes 11 instances of France being recently censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) or threatened with legal action by the Commission over non-compliance with environmental legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALCOPOPS have had a bad rap. They are viewed, whether correctly or accurately, as the drink that weans young people from Coca-Cola and 7-Up into the world of alcohol, without them learning how to drink sensibly. They are also the drinks industry’s key innovation of the last decade, creating a new sector that – before a recent decline in popularity – seemed on course to eclipse some established products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
POCA also contains “freestanding” reporting obligations. At present, offences arising from failure to disclose apply only to a limited number of lawyers in the “regulated sector” who give advice on financial services.

Implementation of the second directive will mean that lawyers conducting any of the activities listed in the directive will fall within its reach.…