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Keith Nuthall
FRANCE’S Loi Evin, which restricts the display of advertisements for alcoholic drinks, has come under attack from an unlikely source, a case at the European Court of Justice involving Newcastle United Football Club.

The team – locally known as the Magpies – is fighting legal action brought by Bacardi-Martini and Cellier des Dauphins.…

KEITH NUTHALL
HAULIERS who are forced to lay up for a weekend or during a public holiday, because of a proposed European directive limiting the right of EU Member States to introduce driving bans at sensitive times, should be provided with adequate rest facilities, a European Parliament committee has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESEARCH project developing ways of feeding spaceship food plants with the recycled faeces of Mars-bound astronauts could have important spin-off applications for the disposal of municipal waste water.

The European Space Agency funded MELISSA (micro-ecological life support alternative) project is examining how to re-use the maximum amount of waste generated by spacemen on future long trips to the red planet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIAN power utilities Electrabel and SPE will continue to receive grants from their national government compensating them for having to help pay for dismantling installations at the Mol-Dessel experimental nuclear site, even though the country’s electricity system has been liberalised.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SURVEY conducted by the Food and Veterinary Office of the European Commission on pesticide residues has found that maximum safety limits were exceeded in 4.5 per cent of 45,000 samples of fruit, vegetable and cereals analysed in the year 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has welcomed the confirmation by Palestinian president Yasser Arafat of a law guaranteeing the independence of his nascent state’s judiciary. Brussels wants a reconstituted Palestinian authority to be more democratic and transparent than the government so comprehensively dislocated by Israel and has been imposing conditions on the Arafat administration for the resumption of full-scale EU aid, including the establishment of real judicial independence.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed stripping immunity from existing EU anti-dumping duties on imports of Polish pallets enjoyed by seven companies, who will henceforth, (assuming EU ministers agree the move), pay the tariffs. Six of the companies were found to have broken promises not to dump pallets on the EU market, while one is an associated company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a European Union book-pricing directive protecting existing national systems from being undermined by cross-border sales from Member States which have no such controls.

In a formal motion, it has called upon the European Commission to propose this law, although the EU bureaucracy can ignore the appeal if it chooses; under EU treaties, the parliament cannot itself table legislation.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is developing plans to lend Euro 43 million to Danish company Leverandorforeningen af 1990 AmbA to build and operate a medium-sized CHP municipal waste incineration plant.

Consisting of one incineration line with a treatment capacity of 24t/h and an energy output capacity of 46 MWth and 16.5 Mwe, the plants would be sited in MÃ¥de, an industrial zone in the city of Esbjerg, on Denmark’s west coast.…

BU ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given clearance under the EU merger

regulations to the acquisition by the German carmaker Volkswagen AG of full

control of Svenska Volkswagen AB, its exclusive wholesale distributor for

the Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda motor vehicles as well as Porsche

motor vehicles in Sweden.…