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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking six national governments to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) because of allegations that they have failed to implement the large combustion plants directive that seeks to cut air pollution through strict limits on sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE CONTINUING threat posed by asbestos to the health of workers in the European construction industry is to be a major focus of the Bilbao-based European Agency for Health and Safety at Work (EASHW) this year. Andrew Smith, spokesman for the agency, told the NetRisk that while the use of asbestos in new construction was now illegal throughout the European Union (EU), the material was still present in older buildings, posing a particular danger to builders and others involved in renovation work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has restricted to 22,000 the number of working migrants it will accept from the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) this May. The announcement is the latest in a string of such caps imposed by existing EU Member States, (made by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Spain), ahead of the expansion of the union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
2) An ageing, rusty Russian oil tanker has left Latvia, despite European protests. Spain and the European Commission, which have expressed grave fears about the single-hull Geroi Sevastopolya, had asked the Baltic state to halt its departure from the Ventspils port and immediately adopt an EU ban on such vessels.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Parliament has acted under its own initiative to put

up a plan to protect the EU’s tuna industry – both the fleet and the

canning sector. The Parliament has approved a report by a Spanish member,

Daniel VARELA SUANZES-CARPEGNA, which urges a reversal of present EU

policy towards the industry and calls for creation of a new

properly-staffed and financed unit within the European Commission to deal

with tuna.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has threatened legal action against Spain over the transfer of insurance portfolios in that country, which Brussels says are in violation of European Union’s (EU) insurance directives and the principle of free movement of services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPAIN has become the second European Union (EU) country to be hit by fines levied by the European Court of Justice, being penalised for failing to improve the environmental health standards of its inland bathing waters. Judges ordered Spain to pay Euro 624,150 every year for each percentage of its rivers and lakes used for bathing that fail to meet quality standards imposed by the EU bathing water directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPANISH nut and locust bean producers are to be paid up to Euro 241.50 per hectare in aid to improve production under proposals approved by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has an overwhelmingly positive trade balance for sparkling wines, exporting product worth Euro 917.4 million in 2002, compared with Euro 45 million in imports. France accounted for 56 per cent of extra-EU exports, followed by Italy (12 per cent) and Spain (8 per cent), according to figures released by Eurostat.…