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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 10 million to Croatia’s fourth largest vehicle leasing company Erste & Steiermarkische S-Leasing, which it will partly on-lend to customers looking to lease its equipment. Zagreb-headquartered S-Leasing will provide lease finance of up to Euro 30,000 to micro businesses and to Euro 125,000 to businesses employing less than 100 staff, which can be used to lease its cars and vans.…

BY MARK ROWE
CROATIA’S application to join the European Union (EU) has been far from plain sailing. Corruption, commercial crime and general unease about the judicial reform have been cited among reasons for delays to Croatia’s accession. But is Croatia’s commercial crime record so much worse than that of the EU’s newest members, Bulgaria and Romania?…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Midwest Research Institute and Kansas City have developed an alternative fuel technology that will allow for natural gas tanks in all vehicles to match standard gasoline tank storage and efficiency while paving the way for cleaner car usage throughout the US.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is demanding that Romania reforms its car registration taxation, which it thinks deters the import of second-hand cars, a key issue for fleets wanting to offload older vehicles. Romania is potentially a major market for EU used cars, given its 22 million population and lower wages.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
DUTCH scientists working with Ford Motors have designed a simple and affordable way to reduce CO2 emissions in new vehicles by 2.6%, an innovation that could help auto manufacturers meet future European Union (EU) fuel emission guidelines.

Drs Michiel (NOTE: SPELLING IS CORRECT) Koot and John Kessels of Eindhoven technical University, in the Netherlands, have developed a software patch that shuts an alternator on and off when it is inefficient for the engine to power it, therefore conserving energy and improving the overall efficiency of the engine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is poised to propose that European Union (EU) manufactured cars must emit a maximum of 130g/km of carbon dioxide by 2012. The Commission’s ruling ‘college’ will meet tomorrow (Wed) and its environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas is already stating publicly that EU ministers and the European Parliament will be asked to approve a compulsory cap.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states have given a cool reception to the European Commission’s January energy package on forging a tough EU-wide programme of boosting energy capacity in Europe. At a special EU Council of Ministers meeting, a majority of governments, including the UK, opposed a proposed binding 2020 target of sourcing 20% of all energy consumption from renewable sources.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
MANDATORY standards to control carbon dioxide emissions should be imposed on European Union (EU) auto makers at the latest by mid-2008, the European Union’s executive body, the European Commission has proposed today in Brussels (Wed).

As part of a strategy for the EU car industry’s long term viability, the measure will limit an average of CO2 emissions to 120 grams per kilometre.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is soon to publish a practical ‘Citizens’ Guide’ on car registration, which fleet managers can use when looking to sell used-cars to foreign European Union (EU) member states, especially focusing on the re-registration of vehicles after they are sold.…