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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has thrown out an allegation that Irish air authority Aer Rianta abused a dominant position in Ireland’s aviation sector when Fingal County Council rejected an application for the construction of a second terminal at Dublin airport in 1997.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has drawn up plans to lend lending Russia’s largest automobile glass manufacturer US$ 25 million; Bor Glass Works, near Nizhny Novgorod, is to spend the money on improving its auto and flat glass production and repairing a furnace.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has opened a formal State aid investigation

procedure into a decision by the German government to give financial

assistance to BMW for the construction of a new car plant in Leipzig. Total

investment in the factory is around 1.2 billion euros (about pounds 720

million) of which some 418.6 million euros (pounds 250 million) is covered

by the planned aid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RAFT of legal cases are being prepared by the European Commission against eight European Union Member States, to force them to monitor and restrict their production of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

In a bid to make the EU stick to its Kyoto Protocol commitments, the Commission has formally warned Britain, Luxembourg, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Germany of potential legal actions at the European Court of Justice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHAPE of a draft European directive on controlling future foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks has been unveiled by EU health and consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne. Speaking to the European Parliament, he said that the legislation would reform rules on vaccination, boosting the use of new tests to make this treatment more effective and avoiding the “unnecessary slaughter and destruction of healthy animals.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE VOLUNTARY strategy on pedestrian safety design standards for motor vehicles adopted by the European Commission with the European, Japanese and South Korean auto manufacturers has been undermined by a key European Parliament committee, which has called for EU legislation on the subject.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A FRENCH fishing company has opened the way for fellow fishermen from across the European Union to launch direct legal challenges to EU fishing regulations.

Until now, under European case law, fishing and other companies were not allowed to ask judges at the European Court of Justice to strike down irksome EU rules, where they apply equally to a number of competitors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENGLISH lawyers would firmly oppose the establishment of EU legislation harmonising European contract law practice, claims the European Commission.

Releasing the results of wide-ranging consultation on four options for potential reform, Brussels said that the keenest opposition to EU legislation came from English lawyers, who “fear that the global significance of English common law would suffer.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development will lend Euro 14 million to a Czech subsidiary of French agri-business company Groupe Soufflet so it can expand its malting interests in the east European country. The money will enable Malterie Soufflet République Tchéque to acquire shares in Obchodní Sladovny, the malting subsidiary of Czech company Tchecomalt Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been warned by the European Commission that it risks being fined if it continues to flout a European Court of Justice ruling that it allow the import of British beef.…