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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE COMPULSORY recycling of metal packaging waste is to be raised from 15 to 50 per cent under an agreement reached on Monday between the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers. The new target for metal packaging waste is the same as that set originally by the European Commission though levels for other materials have been raised.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AGRICULTURE ministers of five European Union (EU) countries have pledged to reject the European Commission’s proposals for ending tobacco-growing subsidies and say they will draw up an alternative scheme aimed at continuing production. A letter signed by the agriculture ministers of Greece, Spain, Italy, France and Portugal warned the Commission of the “very serious” social and employment impact of its plan, which they say will lead to widespread job losses with “grave” social consequences.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure applied by the European Union (EU) on its Member States to improve the environmental performance of their water sectors is failing to achieve the desired results, according to a report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER a long period of consultation, a comprehensive directive protecting the European Union’s (EU) groundwater reserves has been proposed by the European Commission, which would force Member States to establish and police locally sensitive pollution limits. The legislation would insist that national governments carefully monitor groundwater quality and take steps to reverse its pollution, where it has exceeded these self-imposed thresholds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has decided to lend Portugal’s Parques Eólicos Grupo Generg group around Euro 230 million to help it construct and operate 11 grid-connected wind farms, with a total generation capacity of 443 MW. The plants would be sited across Portugal and would cost the company around Euro 460 million in total to set up.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a detailed fishing access deal allowing EU fishing boats access to the Atlantic fishing waters off west Africa’a Guinea Bissau until June 2006. Under the agreement, licences to fish shrimp will be granted to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek vessels, with boats from Spain (enjoying the overwhelming majority of rights), Italy and Greece being allowed to take fin-fish/cephalopods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has decided to lend Portugal’s Parques Eólicos Grupo Generg group around Euro 230 million to help it construct and operate 11 grid-connected wind farms, with a total generation capacity of 443 MW. The plants would be sited across Portugal and would cost the company around Euro 460 million in total to set up.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has released Euro 8.6 million from its EU Solidarity Fund – designed to help national governments cope with national disasters – to assist continuing clean up operations following the Prestige oil spill, off Galicia, Spain.…