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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost a legal bid to suppress the payment of state aid by the French government to a cooperative agency that handles small-scale exports of French language books. The European Court of Justice ruled that the Commission had failed to understand that the subsidies did not help the Centre d’Exportation du Livre Français compete in the general book trade.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has found that Italy has breached the EU’s 1991 urban waste water directive by allowing discharges from the city of Milan to be released indirectly into environmentally sensitive areas without being subjected to specific treatment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN OVERHAUL of the judicial system in Serbia is being funded by the European Union, which is spending Euro 3 million on improving caseload management, in a bid to “offer every citizen a trustworthy, accessible and efficient justice apparatus.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FINDINGS of three EU funded research projects have concluded that water consumption could be reduced by as much as 90 per cent in certain economic sectors, namely tanneries, abandoned industrial sites and waste water management. The European Commission is now advising industry to further reduce their water consumption through internal recycling.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GREEK renewable energy company has been ordered to repay the equivalent of Drachma 9.4 million, plus interest, of the Drachma 13.8 million it was given by the European Commission in 1985 to instal a 300 kW wind energy converter on an Aegean island; the idea was to demonstrate the system for two years and then hand it over to an operator.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has taken little time to approve the proposals from the European Commission to confirm, (and therefore re-impose), the suspended tariffs on cotton-type bed linen from India. New Delhi has already restarted disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is poised to release tenders for work in Kazakhstan, funded by a US$45 million loan, which will help pay for the modernisation of its electricity utility’s transmission management systems and communications networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
KNITTED clothing and accessory imports from the United States are to be a key focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union, following the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL regulations in Norway are being challenged for allowing state electricity operators to secure unlimited concessions to exploit waterfalls for hydro-electric projects, whilst time limiting those available to private generating companies to 60 years.

The Surveillance Authority of the European Free Trade Area, (EFTA), may try to overturn the law at the EFTA court, which has precedence over Norwegian law.…