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BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPANISH consumer protection authorities have banned the import of a China-made toy novelty make-up set branded ‘Royal Make-up’ and ‘Geoffrey’. It has alerted the European Commission’s RAPEX unsafe product warning system that the set has unsafe mesophilic aerobic microorganisms, mould and yeast contamination counts, breaking the European Union cosmetics and toys directives and Spanish national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has taken another step towards securing valuable fishing rights for its fleets in the Pacific, with the EU Council of Ministers approving an access agreement with Micronesia. For nine years, Spanish and Portuguese longliners along with Spanish and French freezer seiners will be able to fish the archipelago’s rich tuna fishing grounds north of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

GREEN campaigners from next June will be able to launch legal action to force European Union (EU) institutions to disgorge potentially important environmental information. Under an EU law agreed last week (3 May) by a conciliation committee linking the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, the terms of the UN’s Aarhus Convention on environmental transparency must apply to EU bodies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SPANISH government has been given two months by the European Commission to say how it will implement a key European Union (EU) copyright law, or face legal action maybe resulting in massive daily recurring fines. Madrid has failed to comply with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) order to write into its national statute book the 2001 copyright directive, which updates EU legislation considering digital technology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) political leaders have agreed medium-term (2007-13) budgets for crucial spending projects for the energy sector: Trans European Networks (TENs) and the EU seventh framework programme (FP7) for research. On TENs, the European Parliament, Commission, and EU Council of Ministers have agreed a Euro 7.2 billion budget, Euro 500 million above previous drafts, although this will have to be split with TENs transport projects.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WE’RE barely a third of the way through 2006 but it’s already clear that the year is going to be a hugely important one for European Union (EU) legislation affecting both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A BID by the Spanish government to secure more North Sea and Baltic Sea access rights for its fishermen has been thrown out by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). After Spain joined the European Union in 1986, it was given some special transitional access to these waters (from 1996), but these expired in 2002, leaving Spanish vessels – claimed Madrid – with unfairly limited quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW Spanish scientific study has suggested a new alternative use for tobacco plants: generating a synthetic human serum albumin (HSA), a component of blood plasma used to treat dehydration, liver or kidney disease or haemorrhages. The current worldwide demand for HSA exceeds 500 tons per year, and almost all is sourced from blood donations, which are not always reliable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) competition commissioner has indicated she could push for regulatory reform to improve competition in EU energy markets, in parallel with legal enforcement action using existing rules. Neelie Kroes highlighted "bundling of generation, supply, pipelines, grids, and distribution (as) at the heart of the current EU energy market failure."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commissions rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) has warned of sales in the Czech Republic of Spanish fruit flavour confectionary containing excess colouring E124 and in Austria of foods containing unauthorised Indian ingredient betel nuts.…