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Keith Nuthall
PROPOSALS that could streamline applications by foreign accountants to work in Britain must take account of their need to have sufficient English skills and knowledge of local taxes and law, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has said.

Director Mike Walsh told Accountancy Age said that proposals from the European Commission on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications needed careful scrutiny, so that standards are protected.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DEAL has been struck between the European Commission and the German publishing industry which will lift the threat of legal action by Brussels to fight collective embargoes imposed on book sales from foreign websites.

Indeed, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LETTER signed by 108 scientists and researchers has been sent to the European Commission, calling for a greater priority to be given to biomedical studies in the oncoming Euro 16.2 billion Sixth Framework Programme for research. The experts, from the EU, the USA, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Poland, the Ukraine and Israel, claimed that although the preceding fourth and fifth programmes earmarked significant sums of money for their subject, the new scheme “offers little or nothing for them.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice because of its alleged failure to adopt anti-pollution programmes designed to prevent pollution in marine areas yielding shellfish. Brussels claims that under the shellfish directive, programmes should prevent pollution in the first place, while Irish legislation only covers clean-ups after problems have arisen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEETING of gas industry representatives, regulators and consumers from across the European Union has agreed good practice guidelines for third party access to the EU’s gas transmission network, a move that the European Commission has hailed as “significant progress in creating a single internal market for gas.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POLITICAL standoff between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers is delaying the passage of a proposed ban on feeding catering waste to farm animals, because the European Parliament is resisting the measure, which is backed by the EU Council of Ministers.…

Keith Nuthall
FINLAND has been ordered by the European Commission to change legislation that disqualifies car passengers from insurance cover when the driver is drunk and involved in an accident. Brussels says this exclusion of passengers’ injuries contravenes the EU’s second motor insurance directive which seeks to facilitate free movement within the EU and to safeguard the interests of persons who may be injured in a motor vehicle accident.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to accept the latest European Commission airport noise directive, while passing some technical amendments that would make the legislation tougher than originally proposed.

MEP’s voted for changes time-limiting for 10 years an exemption allowing the noisiest aircraft registered in developing countries to continue operating in Europe, adding that these aeroplanes must be prevented from moving to new routes in the EU.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved a new ‘solvency margin’ directive that increases by 50 per cent the minimum financial reserves that must be retained by EU-registered insurance companies writing air travel industry policies, as these are deemed by Brussels as ‘volatile-risk’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN environment ministers have reached final agreement with the European Parliament on the 6th Environmental Action Programme, setting out EU environmental objectives for the next 10 years. The compromise provides for the introduction of environment taxes and sets more ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 than ministers had originally accepted.…