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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLLUTION of rivers and lakes used for tourism in the UK has been rising sharply, according to the latest bathing water report from the European Commission. It claims that for the year 2000, compliance with EU cleanliness standards for fresh water sites has fallen to 81.8 per cent, compared with 90.9 per cent in 1999 and 100 per cent in 1998.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has returned to the political fray over tobacco advertising. Bloodied from its experience at the European Court of Justice, yet apparently unbowed, it has proposed a fresh directive which seeks to ban companies from buying publicity in the print media, radio and the Internet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Following a decision today (Wednesday) by the European Commission, the way has been cleared for the sale of the French parcel and equipment delivery company Sernam to the transport company Geodis, also French. The Commission said the French government would be allowed to proceed with restructuring aid of about FF 2.9 billion (pounds 270 million) to Sernam, a subsidiary of the state owned railway company SNCF.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHTS of cosmetic and perfume retailers to sell re-exported products cheaply on the grey parallel market – against the wish of a manufacturer – are likely to be strengthened by an oncoming European Court of Justice ruling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities have been asked to apply for grants from a Euro 2.5 million budget run by the European Commission’s DG environment. Money is available for projects that focus on climate change, sustainable development, forestry, publicising EU environmental policies and animal experiments, among other areas.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the European Court of Justice to fine the Spanish government Euro 45,600-a-day, until it complies with an earlier ECJ ruling that it should implement the directive regarding its inland bathing waters. The fine would be levied until Madrid convinced the court that it had raised water quality levels to a sufficient level, as required under the bathing water directive.…

KEITH NUTHALL
DISCRIMINATORY landing fees in European Union airports, favouring local carriers over those from other EU Member States, have been abolished across the continent according to the European Commission. This follows six years of competition inquiries staged by its officials into the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will review the European Cosmetics Directive, with a view to making it simpler to understand and operate. Officials are to identify provisions that are “burdensome and costly for users,” which can be scrapped without compromising the overall objectives of the law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given an indication of the likely size of the average annual budget for a new Research Fund for Coal and Steel, that will replace the spending of the soon-to-lapse European Coal and Steel Community.…

KEITH NUTHALL
BY start of the next decade, all petrol engine lorries driving in the European Union will have to run on sulphur-free fuel, if EU ministers back fresh proposals from the European Commission.

It wants sulphur to be banned from petrol in the EU by 2011, and has proposed that sulphur-free petrol and diesel should be made available in every Member States from January 1, 2005.…