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KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL from the European Commission to end Britain and Irelands’ practice of zero-rating VAT on children’s shoes has been rejected by London and Dublin. The British government made clear it would use the national veto available against European financial legislation to prevent the proposal becoming law.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.

The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.

The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A SRI Lanka soap manufacturer has been given a global prize for the quality of his product seven months after the award was announced, because he had been unable to secure a visa to visit London for three days to receive it.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
FORD UK has promised that covers and jackets for its vehicle owner manuals will be made from recycled rubber in future as part of a pledge to recycle all of its manufacturing waste. The move came as Ford signed up to the Mayor of London’s “Green Procurement Code” run by London Remade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is pushing for an acceleration of the phasing out of single hull tankers worldwide in the wake of the Prestige accident, where thousands of tonnes of crude oil spilled onto the pristine cost of Galicia, Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the British government to the European Court of Justice for failing to ensure that an environmental impact assessment has been carried out on a planned urban development project at White City, London. It involves the construction of a 60,000 m2 shopping and leisure centre with 16 hectares set aside for 4,500 car parking spaces.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BRITISH footwear importer has won a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which should lead it to hold onto GBPounds 38,085 in import duties repaid by the UK Customs and Excise, with judges saying customs officials could not reverse their earlier decision to return the money.…

BY FRITZ BRETT
UK insurance consumers will benefit from a new 7-year regulation adopted by the European Commission providing for a block exemption authorising certain types of co-operation agreements between companies, say industry officials. The regulation, drawn up after intensive consultations with the industry, including the Association of British Insurers, covers agreements that include the establishment of non-binding standard policy conditions, the exchange of statistical information for the calculation of risks and the creation of insurance pools.…