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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9520
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment

Environment Committee wants an EU directive on soil protection, leaving it to the member states to decide on specific measures

Brussels, 10/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's environment committee, chaired by Miroslav Ouzky (EPP-ED, Czech Republic), backs the framework directive on soil protection unveiled by the European Commission as the cornerstone of the EU's 'thematic strategy' for soil protection (see Europe 9271), as long as it is left to the member states and regional and local authorities to decide on the measures to be implemented. Adopting a report by Cristina Gutierrez Cortines (EPP-ED,...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: McCreevy recognises priorities of economic reality over theory
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/LISBON SUMMIT: European Parliament still concerned with draft amending treaty
(EU) EU/EP/SEATS: Italy's “no” to Lamassoure formula will not prevent new Treaty from being adopted
(EU) EU/DEATH PENALTY: EU calls for action to abolish death penalty
(EU) EU/SERBIA:
(EU) EU/MALI/NIGER:
(EU) EU/BURMA: ITUC and ETUC ask European Union to adopt severe sanctions
(EU) EU/ETHIOPIA: European Union expresses concern about humanitarian situation in Somali region of Ethiopia
(EU) EU/SOMALIA:
(EU) EU/COLOMBIA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/MARITIME POLICY: Commission calls for integrated maritime policy for European Union that does not ignore social dimension
(EU) EP/2008 BUDGET: Budgets Committee reaches agreement on first reading - Battle looming with Council over Galileo and flexibility
(EU) EU/TAXATION:
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Commission hopes to boost hydrogen car market and encourage hydrogen technologies
(EU) EP/ENVIRONMENT: Environment Committee wants an EU directive on soil protection, leaving it to the member states to decide on specific measures
(EU) EP/TAXATION: MEPs go against rapporteur on how taxation can help towards Lisbon strategy objectives
(EU) EP/ECB: ECB needs more information before it can take position on interest rates, reiterates Trichet
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Turbulence on financial markets prompt IMF to reduce its growth forecast for 2008
(EU) EU/STATE AID: In-depth investigation opens into possible aid in privatisation of Romanian car producer Automobile Craiova
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Formal investigation into Spain's tax scheme for the acquisition of shares in foreign companies
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission launches formal investigation into how RATP pensions in France are financed
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission gives go-ahead for public funding of Grosseto regional airport in Tuscany
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Green light for Italian state aid for clean lorries
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission gives conditional authorisation to funding of pensions for French postal staff
(EU) EU/GMO: Member States say neither yes nor no to BASF genetically modified potato and three other GMOs
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Romania risks losing 25% of its EU farm aid
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Planned new EU-Guinea Bissau fisheries agreement
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Romano Prodi says it is “our regions which make Europe more competitive”
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Joe Borg attends 35th General Assembly of Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions
(EU) EU/EUROMED: Meeting of Mediterranean media in Amsterdam
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Jan Figel delighted Erasmus Mundus seminar will help improve programme
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in Official Journal
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