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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has imposed protective anti-dumping duties of 32.3 per cent and countervailing duties of 10 per cent on Indonesian supplies to European Union companies of certain ring-binder mechanisms. The Council however scrapped plans to impose such protective duties on Indian ring-binder exports.…

BY MARK ROWE
CYCLISTS involved in a road accidents will automatically be deemed to be the wronged party, under planned road safety changes to European Union insurance legislation. A directive from Brussels has ruled that cyclists and pedestrians who are hit by a car will always be covered by the insurance of the motor vehicle involved, irrespective of whether or not they are to blame.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LEGALITY within the European Union of strict alcohol advertising laws such as France’s Loi Evin is in doubt because of an unlikely case at the European Court of Justice involving Newcastle United Football Club. The team is fighting legal action brought by Bacardi-Martini and Cellier des Dauphins, who claim they lost money when Newcastle programmed its revolving touchline hoardings to display their advertisements for swift 1-2 second intervals.…

BY MARK ROWE
PEDESTRIANS and cyclists involved in an accident with a car would be covered by the insurance of the vehicle, even if they caused the incident, if proposed amendments to European law are agreed. Changes tabled to the EU’s Fifth Motor Insurance Directive by Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society – will go before European Parliament for first reading this autumn.…

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.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved a root-and-branch reform of the European Union’s Financial Regulation, its accounting bible, which is designed to make the budgetary management of the EU more simple and efficient. The new system comes into force on January 1, 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has concluded that the water consumption of the tanning and leather industry could be reduced by as much as 90 per cent. The European Commission is now advising the industry to further reduce their water consumption through internal recycling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN OFFICIAL Brussels working party set up to monitor European Union data protection legislation has called on businesses to take a balanced approach regarding their right to monitor the e mails of their employees, avoiding, for example, blanket bans on the personal use of the Internet.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
SOME 12 million tonnes of scrap metal – mainly steel – are expected to enter global markets this decade as redundant nuclear power stations are closed down worldwide; in Europe, there is likely to be a surge from 2003 onwards, via a closure programme for obsolete plants in the eastern European countries applying to join the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…