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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8174

18 March 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 33
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
European Parliament calls on EU to do all it can to safeguard biodiversity

Strasbourg, 18/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - Last Thursday, the European Parliament adopted by a wide majority on first reading (370 to 8 with 14 abstentions) the report by Marie Anne Isler Béguin (Greens/EFA, France) on the European Commission Communication on Action Plans to protect biological diversity in the domains of protecting natural resources, agriculture, fisheries, development aid and economic co-operation.

Biodiversity covers the whole of life, nature in all its forms, from human...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Barcelona's success: new momentum for the Lisbon process and balance between open markets and social guarantees - Brief analysis of main results
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONVENTION: Praesidium proposes inviting a representative of candidate countries to its meetings
(EU) EP/GEORGIA: Eduard Chevardnaze pleads at EP for Georgia's EU accession in "a not too distant future"
(EU) EU/BARCELONA SUMMIT/ENLARGEMENT: Candidate countries hope to fully participate in the Lisbon process
(EU) EU/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Declaration by Spanish Presidency on constitutional reform
(EU) EU/INDONESIA: EU welcomes Malino Agreement
(EU) EP/HUMAN RIGHTS: Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, Sri Lanka
(EU) EP/COLOMBIA: EP blames FARC for renewed violence and calls on Colombian government to disarm paramilitary
(EU) EU/BURMA: EU delegation meets Aung San Suu Kyi
(EU) EU/IVORY COAST: Poul Nielson encourages Côte d'Ivoire to progress towards democracy and continue reconciliation process
(EU) EP/BARCELONA SUMMIT: EPP-ED welcomes outcome
(EU) EP/BARCELONA SUMMIT: Greens say Summit was unsustainable
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: Political agreement on extending aid for nut and carob bean farmers for a year - Negotiations continuing on tobacco and enlargement
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: New wine labelling regulation
(EU) EU/ACP: Opening in Cape Town of fourth plenary session of joint Parliamentary Assembly
(EU) EU/TRADE: Steel the main issue at informal seminar in Toledo
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF BARCELONA: Meetings and commitments fixed by the Summit until 2010
(EU) EP/ENVIRONMENT: European Parliament calls on EU to do all it can to safeguard biodiversity
(EU) EP/ENVIRONMENT: Parliament calls on Commission to ensure urban waste water measures are met
(EU) EP/TAIWAN:
(EU) EP/ACP:
(EU) EP/COMMISSION: Parliament approves schedule of Commission's annual legislative programme
(EU) EP/TAX: EP deplores increase in income tax and regards as salutary tax competition between Member States
(EU) EP/TAXATION: EP has doubts about negotiations with Switzerland over savings tax and lifting banking secrecy
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Approval of new protocol to EU-Gabon fisheries agreement
(EU) EP/FISHERIES: Parliament calls for fish processing industry to genuinely taken into account
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Commission acts against several Member States for failure to comply with EU nature conservation laws
(EU) EU/FREE MOVEMENT: Infringements of legislation on diplomas in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
(EU) EP/CULTURE: Viviane Reding launches European culture policy portal at informal Council in Salamanca
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Annual inflation rate drops to 2.3% in EU in February
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT/GALILEO:
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: N° 497
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