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BY PHILIP FINE

HEINZ did something this year that its rival large USA-based food producers seem to be shying away from. They put their own name on an organic product.

One would think other US companies would have, by now, employed the same strategy as Heinz: use organic-friendly Europe as a test-market for an eventual US launch of an organic product, but the idea seems to be slow in catching on.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that the European Union (EU) continue collating statistics on the EU steel sector, but that it considerably reduces their scope from what was collected for the now defunct European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNCIL of the European Economic Area has noted pressure from European Free Trade Area members, (Iceland, Norway and Leichtenstein), that they should be freed from any affects of the European Union’s steel safeguard duty regime, launched as a response to the duties imposed by the Bush administration in the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PUBLIC Power Corporation (PPC) of Greece will be able to honour a long term contract with Aluminium of Greece to supply it with cheap electricity at a loss, even after the part-privatised generating company faces full competition in the European Union (EU) energy market under EU liberalisation directives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition by US office supplies firm Staples of the office supplies distance-selling business of French company Guilbert. Brussels agreed that the take-over did not pose competition problems, because, although it would boost Staples’ position in Europe, the giant would still face strong rivals, notably the US-based Office Depot.…

BY MARK ROWE
MANY air traffic control (ATC) organisations experience difficulties in attracting sufficient qualified staff. Indeed, the air transport industry does not seem to be as attractive an employer as it used to be. As a result, CANSO is examining selection and scaling methods, benchmarking qualification requirements, and evaluating common programmes for attracting new applicants.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has closed competition investigations threatening the future of two international aviation cooperation deals: the Star Alliance of Lufthansa, SAS and United Airlines; and the KLM-Northwest Airlines compact. Brussels halted inquiries into Star after its partners offered to surrender slots at Frankfurt airport to allow competing services on the Frankfurt to Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco routes.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a system of public compensation for violent crimes committed across the EU. Its suggested directive on compensation to crime victims lays down minimum standards of compensation for intentional violent crimes, including sexual, racist and xenophobic offences committed on a Member State’s territory.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Road Transport Union (IRU) has called on the European Union (EU) to take precautions in preparation for the admission of new Member States from the east, to make sure the EU road haulage market is not flooded with cut-priced cowboy hauliers from these former communist countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PERUVIAN fishermen will almost certainly now be allowed to market their sardine catches in the European Union as sardines, after the appellate body of the World Trade Organisation rejected an EU appeal against an earlier WTO ruling backing Peru’s case.…