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OZONE LAYER PLUS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked all European Union Member States to provide information about how they are controlling substances that damage the ozone layer. Member States were required to provide this information by the end of last year, but the data has not been submitted.…
NEW ICC SCAM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce is appealing for help to help it track down the perpetrators of a fake share-offering that has left European businesses out of pocket. Its Commercial Crime Bureau wants to hear from victims of a scam, where investors have been offered bargain prices for stick of companies that were supposedly about to go public, but which actually did not exist.…
ITALY ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been censured for failing to abide by European Union freedom of trade laws by imposing tough labelling laws for perfumes or cosmetic fragrances, which insist that packaging declares whether they are natural or artificial.…
SHIP SCRAPPING
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a special new budget item of Euro
32 million, (Pounds 20 million), in respect of the policy to reduce the EU’s fishing capacity by scrapping vessels, which should enable fleets to be downsized from next year, rather than in 2004, as previously discussed.…
EASTERN EUROPE
BY ALAN OSBORN
WORK is a lot more dangerous and unhealthy in the countries that will join the European Union in 2004 and later, than it is in the existing EU. A study by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions finds there is “nearly double the risk to health and safety at work in the candidate countries.”…
BLOCK EXEMPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL exemption for the insurance sector from European Union laws insisting on free and unfettered competition between companies in Europe is to be extended, albeit with changes improving the rights of policy-holders and other consumers.
This ‘block exemption’ from EU competition legislation is due to expire next March 31, and the European Commission is now consulting the industry on reforms to the system that it wants to put in place on its renewal.…
STEEL DUTY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLANS to impose 100 per cent retaliatory duties on US exports of ball-point, felt-tipped, fountain and stylograph pens, as well as propelling or sliding pencils, pen-holders, pencil-holders, plus caps and clips have been postponed from June 18 to September 30 after Washington started backing down and removing a number of its steel tariffs.…
FRANCE - ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESTRICTIONS imposed by the French government on personal imports of standard and homeopathic medicines via the post, from other European Union Member States, are to be challenged at the European Court of Justice. The European Commission is bringing a case against Paris, claiming that the rules “constitute a disproportionate obstacle to free movement of medicinal products in the internal (EU) market.”…
DAEWOO - GM
BY ALAN OSBORN AND PHILIP FINE
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition authority has cleared the purchase
by General Motors of a series of production and sales outlets of the South
Korean car manufacturer Daewoo.
GM is to acquire some of Daewoo’s production facilities for passenger cars
and light commercial vehicles in Korea and Vietnam together with sales
subsidiaries in Austria, the Benelux region, (Belgium, Netherlands and
Luxembourg), France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.…
US STEEL TARIFFS
BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE
ALTHOUGH the US knitwear lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs on knitted textiles and clothing, it is warning that job losses would follow any final decision to go ahead with retaliation to the US steel safeguard duties.…