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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) fishing boats will receive additional quotas this year for catches in Greenland waters, after a renegotiation of financial compensation from the EU to the Danish self-governing territory. If a proposal from the European Commission is accepted by EU ministers, a new quota of 1,000 tonnes for snow crab will be introduced, shared by Ireland and Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CAMPAIGN to reduce the growing number of collisions between road vehicles and deer on Britain’s roads has called on both drivers and highways officials to deal with this potentially deadly risk.

The Deer Initiative estimates that between 30,000 and 50,000 deer are hit by cars, vans and lorries in the UK annually, with 10-20 people being killed in such accidents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NUCLEAR energy industry is losing a key ally in the European Commission, with the impending departure of energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio. She will be replaced in the Commission from November by Hungary’s current foreign minister László Kovacs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
JACQUES Barrot, who has been given responsibility for transport in the new European Commission, is a close political ally of the French president Jacques Chirac and can be expected to take a tough line in defending French interests when Brussels draws up transport policy in the next five years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LEGAL web being cast by the European Union (EU) in the fight against money laundering is being tightened still further. A third directive has now been proposed by the European Commission that, among other things, will broaden the definition of money laundering to include not only the concealment or disguise of the proceeds of serious crimes but also the financing of terrorism with either criminal or legally acquired money.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) scientists have developed artificial sensors that can – they claim – more rapidly and cheaply assess the freshness of fish than existing trained human panels. Traditionally, these specialists monitor “appearance, smell, taste and texture”, which is, said a European Commission note “expensive, both in terms of training and assembling the panel.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added five additional traditional Iberian meat products to the European Union’s (EU) register of protected geographical indications. They are Spanish beef lines Ternera de Navarre, Carne de Vacuno del País Vasco and Carne de Cantabria and veal Carne de la Sierra de Guadarrama veal, plus Portuguese sausages Farinheira de Estremoz e Borba.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered Spain to repay Euro 17 million in EU subsidies for breaking payment rules for nut and locust bean production, and Greece Euro 38.55 million for ewe and goat premium errors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONFIDENCE in the durability of public health systems is not high amongst continental Europeans, a new Swedish report has claimed. Without reform 81% of 8,000 citizens in seven European Union (EU) member countries fear that the quality of their healthcare will decline or stagnate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S tax burden as a proportion of GDP fell sharply in 2002 to 35.8% from 37.3% in 2001, confirming the UK as among the lightest taxed jurisdictions in the European Union (EU). The contrast is especially marked with its key competitors Germany (40.2% in 2002), France (44.2%), and Italy (41.7%), according to the latest available comparative figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat.…