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WATER CONSERVATION
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.…
INDIA ROUND-UP
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN leather sector is receiving a major boost from its national government, both in terms of increased production support and export assistance. Industry players are hopeful of receiving IND Rupees 8 billion support under the country’s 10th (five year) Plan.…
SHORT CHAIN PARAFFINS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has formally ordered that short-chain chlorinated paraffins not be sold for use in the fat liquoring of leather, whether as substances, constituents of other substances, or in preparations where concentrations are higher than one per cent.…
PARAFFINS - EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (internal market) has imposed restrictions on the use of short-chain chlorinated paraffins, ordering that they not be sold for use in the fat liquoring of leather, whether as substances, constituents of other substances, or in preparations where concentrations are higher than one per cent of the total volume.…
GERMANY FEED IN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVERSING its earlier position, the European Commission has agreed that the German grid feed-in laws on the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources and from combined heat and power do not constitute state aid, that Brussels could, in theory, ban.…
LITHUANIA PLANT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LITHUANIAN government has agreed to close its Soviet-era nuclear plant at Ignalina after the European Union said it would help fund decommissioning. Although the amount of subsidy has yet to be agreed, the aid promise prompted Vilnius to announce the closure of unit 1 before 2005 and unit 2 by 2009.…
EU COMPANY LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REFORM of European company law legislation has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.
The aim of the tabled changes to the EU’s First Company Law Directive (68/151/EEC), said a Commission statement, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public while at the same time simplifying ….disclosure…
NORWAY REFORMS
Keith Nuthall
THE NORWEGIAN government has moved to liberalise its alcohol retail system, following the order from the European Free Trade Area Court that it should scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where the sale of brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet is generally limited to domestically-produced lines.…
ICELAND IMPORTER
Keith Nuthall
AN ICELANDIC drinks importer could win compensation from the Iceland government, after the European Free Trade Area Court found that Reykjavik had broken the rules of the European Economic Area, (of which Iceland is a part), by maintaining its alcohol importation monopoly until December 1995.…
GERMAN BRANDY
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…