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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECSTASY has become Britain’s number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States.…

Keith Nuthall
SPANISH national carrier Iberia has warned it may formally complain at the European Commission about alleged illegal state aid from Spain’s regional governments to Ireland’s Ryanair. Iberia chief executive Angel Mullor said his company was “gathering information” on subsidies helping Ryanair operate at regional airports, such as Santander, northern Spain, and Girona, Catalonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIX year fishing agreement struck between the European Commission and the Seychelles has reduced access for European Union (EU) tuna boats to answer criticism that similar past deals have been emptying developing world waters of fish. The new agreement with the Seychelles – lasting from January 2005 to 2011 – cuts fishing opportunities for tuna long-liners by 15% by 2006.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
TINY, mountainous and very very friendly to rich people with plenty of cash to stash away, Andorra ought to be a money launderer’s paradise. On balance, anti money laundering people say that it is not, though the relentless culture of secrecy about financial matters makes this impossible to say with certainty.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPANISH steel producer Acerinox is likely to lose a final appeal against European Union (EU) rulings that it took part in a cartel in Spain’s market for stainless steel. An advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recommended that ECJ judges back the junior European Court of First Instance’s insistence that Acerinox took part in market fixing with Germany’s ThyssenKrupp and others.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming agriculture Commissioner signalled a tough approach to New World wine and spirit producers who exploit traditional European geographic names on wine products after she takes up her post on November 1.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The first report of the new European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) which was created earlier this year says that in Europe “a high proportion of industrial pollution is caused by a few single plants.” The report, which initially covers emissions in the 15 EU countries, Norway and Hungary in the year 2001, is soon to be upgraded to a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register which will significantly widen the range of pollutants, industries and emissions, will report every year instead of every third one and will take data from road traffic, aviation, shipping and agriculture as well as industry.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has overturned a European Commission order that Spanish synthetic fibres producer Sniace SA, of Cantabria, repay state aid of Pesetas 8 billion (Euro 48 million) it received in the 1990’s. This was paid via the rescheduling of debts to Spain’s social security fund and de facto low interest loans from its wage guarantee fund Fogasa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ERRORS made by the European Commission lawyers have wrecked a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case designed to force Spain to recognise air traffic control qualifications gained in other European Union (EU) member states.

Judges threw out Brussels’ application, citing a litany of legal mistakes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Spain’s Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA) up to Euro 550 million to help modernise the country’s air traffic control systems and infrastructure in Spain. The aim, said an EIB note, was to bring Spanish ATC services “in line with the technical requirements of Eurocontrol”, helping to harmonise air traffic control standards across Europe.…