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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW president of the European Commission, the former Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, has made clear that for the next five years at least there will be a reform-minded team at work in Brussels driven by a powerful desire to eliminate accounting fraud, inefficiency and the protection of special interests.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pressing Spain to implement a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling of last May, telling it to reform a law allowing it to block deals involving tobacco giant Tabacalera SA. If Spain continues to ignore the ruling, it could face massive daily recurring fines worth Euro 1,000’s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pressing Spain to implement a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling of last May, telling it to reform a law allowing it to block deals involving tobacco giant Tabacalera SA. If Spain continues to ignore the ruling, it could face massive daily recurring fines worth Euro 1,000’s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL work accident statistics are keenly examined by occupational health practitioners, but they do not enable the safety of British workplaces to be compared against other European countries; that is where Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical agency comes in.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided to launch 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 MONICA DOBIE
SPANISH oil and gas giant Repsol YDF has begun drilling for oil in Cuban waters in a narrow sector of the Gulf of Mexico, using a Norwegian drilling platform for US$200,000 a day. The Spaniards are working with government oil company Cubapetróleo in a narrow sector of the Gulf of Mexico, off Cuba’s north-western coast.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is early days, but the European Union’s (EU) Solidarity Fund, subsidising the costs of large-scale disasters, shows every likelihood of being a permanent feature of the EU risk management scene. We’re not talking small beer here; the fund paid out Euro 104.7 million last year and Euro 728 million the year before that, easing the consequences of disasters such as floods, earthquakes and forest fires.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have approved an agreement with west Africa’s Guinea Bissau, which will guarantee access to its fishing grounds for Italian, French, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish fishermen until June 2006. The deal involves the Guinea Bissau government being granted Euro 7.26 million a year in financial compensation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STATE aid of Euro 30 million has been authorised for the Spanish olive-pomace oil industry, as compensation for expensive manufacturing improvements it has been forced to make in the wake of a 2001 scandal about polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a joint venture involving national carrier Iberia and Cobra, (owned by Spanish construction group ACS). The venture Serpista will repair and maintain ground-handling equipment. Brussels said there were no serious competition concerns as rivals could “relatively easily enter the market.”…