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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURATOM has released its 2002 report on inquiries carried out by its European Commission officials tasked with checking the safety and security of nuclear installations across the European Union (EU); although the paper’s conclusions was generally satisfactory, it notes a number of problems detected that required resolution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has said he regrets a US ban on imports of French meat cuts including foie gras and some sausages on health grounds, after Brussels banned US egg and live poultry exports because of an American outbreak of bird flu.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has warned that atypical cases of BSE and scrapie have been discovered in France and specialists are conducting follow-up studies. The six unusual BSE cases and three scrapie cases were discovered around the country during routine checks by the French Agency for Food Safety.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rejected a call from France that the European Union should increase the minimum EU excise duty on tobacco, to prevent tobacco smuggling into France from lower duty jurisdictions such as Germany while French duties are hiked.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has given four French agricultural organisations an extra five months to pay heavy fines totalling Euro 15.4 million imposed by the European Commission for illegally fixing beef prices and restricting imports when demand was weakened by BSE in 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE expansion of the European Court of Justice buildings in Luxembourg City is taking place, enabling the European Union’s (EU) top judicial authority cope with the additional workload created by May’s expansion of the EU. This accession of 10 eastern and southern European countries will require increased office space for these new member countries and their staff, plus greater courtroom capacity to deal with a growing number of cases.…

BY RICHARD HURST
Nigeria is widely regarded as the country as the hub of money-laundering activities in the region, despite having a reasonably comprehensive set of anti-money laundering laws in place. Press and non-governmental organisation reports have highlighted cases where Nigerian banks have been hit by money launderers trying to conceal illicit earnings from corruption, the arms trade, narcotics and the e-mail frauds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIGHT restrictions imposed by French regulators on the market approval of nutrient enriched drinks break European Union free trading rules, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It said that France has neither been sufficiently “proportionate” nor based product bans on “the latest scientific data” to follow EU food health regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed the decision by the French government to scrap its unlimited state guarantee of France’s electricity giant EdF. The move follows intense political pressure from the Commission’s competition directorate general, which has fought a long running battle with Paris to prise open the French power market.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
FRENCH tobacconists have staged a national demonstration in central Paris, vowing to keep pressure on their government that wants to raise taxes on tobacco products for the third time in six months this January. According to the Confédération des Débitants de Tabac de France, 22,000 protesters took to the streets, including retailers, tobacco consumers and sympathetic mayors, (police estimates said 13,000 protested).…