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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to lend Euro 14 million to a Czech subsidiary of French agri-business company Groupe Soufflet so it can expand its malting interests in the east European country. The money will enable Malterie Soufflet République Tchéque to acquire shares in Obchodní Sladovny, the malting subsidiary of Czech company Tchecomalt Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING imports from the United States are to bear the brunt of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.

The European Commission has announced that it is asking EU ministers to approve a selected range of products, where the levying of duty will cause the most pain to US exporters, in a bid to force the Bush administration to drop its steel tariffs.…

KEITH NUTHALL
WIDE-RANGING consultation has been launched by the European Commission into the idea of harmonising national laws across the European Union that regulate who is liable when a product is defective and a consumer wants to claim compensation.

EU justice and home affairs Commissioner Antonio Vitorino has claimed that with cross-border shopping growing between Member States, European citizens should be clear about their rights, wherever they buy goods or services.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Generally organic meat production in the EU is low, said, Jean-Luc Meriaux, general secretary of the European Livestock and Meat Trading Union. For instance, in the key sector of organic beef, “very little” is produced in the EU, he said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded report has claimed that technological advances have made it feasible to roll-out the next phase of offshore wind turbines, which could generate 100 MW, dwarfing the capacity of the current 80 MW models.

The Concerted Action on Offshore Wind Energy in Europe (CA-OWEE) project has concluded that “the physical and environmental challenges are within the grasp of the offshore and wind energy industries,” although there are still problems posed by “market uncertainties.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE REPUBLIC of Ireland has been sent a final legal warning note alleging that its government has failed to implement a EU scheme for monitoring CO2 emissions from new passenger cars. Under the scheme, Member States are supposed to send data to the European Commission annually, with the deadline for producing the first information report being July 1, 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW pan-European pharmaceuticals company called Consilient Health has been launched in Brussels to help pharmaceutical companies from the eastern and southern European countries seeking membership of the European Union to integrate with its market and regulatory structures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has tightened a proposed reform of the European Union rules protecting construction workers from asbestos, cutting maximum exposure levels, especially during demolition, removal, repair and maintenance work, (except for asbestos cement work). Here, workers would be exposed to a maximum average of 0.05 fibres per cm2 over eight hours, rather than 0.1.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (transport) has approved the latest European Commission airport noise directive, accepting European Parliament technical amendments limiting for 10 years an exemption allowing the noisiest aircraft registered in developing countries to continue operating in Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is expected this month (May) to announce a proposed directive boosting the use of co-generation, although EU electricity association Eurelectric thinks it may at the same time moderate earlier targets for doubling the share of energy represented by the sector.…