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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SAYS DIESEL DUTY SHOULD RISE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has backed proposals to increase the current EU minimum excise tax rate on diesel to match that for unleaded petrol. However, MEPs want to phase the increase from Euro 302/1,000 litres to Euro 359 by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016 – Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece acting immediately.…
DRUG RESISTANT TB ON RISE IN EASTERN EUROPE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILE tuberculosis rates remain low in western and central Europe, an increase in drug resistant TB in eastern Europe is raising concern amongst European Union (EU) experts. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has released figures showing that 18.6% of Lithuania’s 2,228 TB cases in 2006 were multiple-drug resistant; 15% of Estonia’s 399 cases were of this deadly strain; as were 14.7% of Latvia’s 1,109 cases.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SAYS DIESEL DUTY SHOULD RISE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has backed European Commission proposals to increase the current European Union (EU) minimum excise tax rate on diesel to match that for unleaded petrol. However, MEPs have proposed phasing the increase from diesel’s current Euro 302/1,000 litres rate to unleaded petrol’s Euro 359/1,000 by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016, but Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece acting immediately.…
EU ROUND UP - EU UNBUNDLING COMPROMISE PROPOSED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SLOVENIAN government has tabled compromise proposals to break the current political logjam at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over gas supply unbundling. As current EU president, Slovenia has suggested for instance that some joint ownership of energy producing and transmission utilities could occur if there were "additional safeguards" preventing conflicts of interest, and guaranteeing the "structural independence of decision making" by distribution operators.…
EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT TURNS WASTE PLASTIC INTO BRICKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has helped create bricks with domestic waste polymers usually considered too varied or dirty to be recycled. It has worked with the Latvian Technological Centre; the Institute of Polymer Mechanics, the University of Latvia; and Spanish company Hormigones Uniland to mix waste polymers with other materials to make construction products.…
RUSSIA'S BANS ON FISH IMPORTS PROVOKE DISBELIEF AMONGST EXPORTING NATIONS
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S new-found belligerence and confidence is not confined to the political and military sphere: in recent years Russia has adopted an aggressive, take-it-or-leave it stance when it comes to fish, seafood and other food products.
The country has imposed a number of bans on fish products from its European neighbours, including salmon and other fresh fish from Norway, fishmeal, frozen fish and canned smoked sprats from Poland and a range of fish products from Latvia.…
US ADDITIONAL SECURITY DEMANDS PROVOKE DIPLOMATIC ROWS IN EUROPE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been angered by the United States has been demanding additional information on air passengers flying to American airports, beyond the existing agreement between the European Union (EU) and the USA. And furthermore, the US has been making such demands through bilateral supplementary agreements with EU member states, notably with the Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia, while deals with Lithuania, Hungary and Slovakia are under discussion.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE WANTS MORE EXCISE DUTY FOR DIESEL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s economics committee wants the European Union’s (EU) minimum rate of excise duty on diesel raised to the level for unleaded petrol: from the current Euro 302/1,000 litres to the petrol level of Euro 359/1,000 litres by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016.…
PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY COULD BE WIN REAL GLOBAL FREE TRADE AS WTO'S DOHA ROUND DRAWS TO A CLOSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round maybe drawing towards a close, the pharmaceutical industry might start to consider that a final deal could lead to the elimination of most import duties on drugs and medicines, traded worldwide.…
DIESEL MINIMUM EXCISE RATES SHOULD INCREASE SAY MEPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s economics committee has called for the European Union’s (EU) minimum rate of excise duty on diesel to be raised to that for unleaded petrol: from the current Euro 302/1,000 litres to Euro 359/1,000 litres by 2015, with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania having until 2016.…