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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission was due to meet the Spanish government on Monday (3 May) about how European Union (EU) finds might support the funding of a pared down – but still controversial – Spanish National Hydrological Plan. An announcement was planned for the same day and it was anticipated that some Brussels money would be made available for diverting water from the northern Jucar river basin to the Vinalopó, near Alicante.…

KEITH NUTHALL
LISTERIA monocytogenes contaminants have been found in Spanish sea bass and German smoked salmon, according to a recent bulletin from the European Commission’s rapid alert service on food safety. The system also publicises alerts on fish imported into the European Union, recently highlighting aerobic mesophiles in Indonesian shrimp, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Spanish utility Enagás SA up to Euro 450 million to reinforce and extend the country’s gas transmission network and reserve facilities. These improvements would cover most of the country and are included in the 2002-2011 Spanish National Energy Plan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DISASTERS caused by the tailings pond disasters at Baia Mare, Romania, and Aznalcóllar, Spain, have generated a major rethink in Brussels about the suitability of regulating potentially toxic mining waste under general European Union (EU) waste and landfill legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Spanish utility Enagás SA up to Euro 450 million to reinforce and extend the country’s gas transmission network and reserve facilities. These improvements would cover most of the country and are included in the 2002-2011 Spanish National Energy Plan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN coastguard service should be established to tighten protection of European Union (EU) shores, the European Parliament’s temporary committee on improving safety at sea has recommended following its Prestige disaster inquiry. The organisation would have the authority to assign emergency moorings and ports in the even t of a maritime accident, strictly monitor the following of ships to correct routes and prosecute the illegal entry of vessels.…

BY MARK WILSON
AWASH with recently-passed legislation and newly-established Financial Investigation Units, the small nations of the Caribbean have transformed their money laundering controls since the mid-1990s. In 2000, five Caribbean island jurisdictions made up one-third of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of fifteen non-cooperative countries and territories, each of them with ‘serious systemic problems,’ in the words of a FATF review published on June 22 of that year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INVESTMENTS in the waste water systems of the Spanish Basque province of Guipuzcoa that are likely to be supported by the European Investment Bank (EIB) should also positively benefit the environmental health of water supplies in France’s Basque country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of exemptions from the European Union’s (EU) new energy taxation directive have been proposed by the European Commission for the eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in May (barring Cyprus).

They would be added to the already long list of exemptions negotiated by existing Member States that prompted EU internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein to liken the legislation to “Gruyere cheese”.…

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.…