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BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States Congress is to take a close look at an allegedly fraudulent and

secret 1993 purchase of a failed California life-insurance company, a deal that has led to criticism being levelled at the US Department of Justice.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH investors have been given the opportunity to help produce the world’s first air powered car.

French inventor Guy Nègre and his company Moteur Development International (MDI) unveiled their concept to industry and Government officials in September (20th), hopeful of establishing manufacturing units in the UK.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A GRAPE with French origins, but long used in California wine-making, has been added to the list of prime grape varieties accepted for use in marketing geographically designated American wines. Tannat, which produces a deeply colored and tannic wine, has been given official US wine-making status by Washington’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after a petition was launched by Tablas Creek Vineyard in Paso Robles, California.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LEGAL formalities for creating the Single European Sky are approaching completion. The initial proposal from the European Commission for integrating the EU’s national air traffic control authorities into a continental ATC system has now been approved by the EU member governments and, in slightly amended form, by the European Parliament.…

From Alan Osborn
The German travel company TUI AG (formerly Preussag) has

acquired sole control of Nouvelles Frontières, a French company also

active in the holiday sector, under a deal approved today (Tuesday 27th)

by the European Commission.TUI currently holds around 30% of NF’s capital

and is now is exercising an exclusive option to buy shares from the NF

founder Jacques Maillot (who has 41.92 per cent) and a number of minority

shareholders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission because of its failure to scrap a law insisting that labels on foodstuffs imported into France must be written in the French language. Brussels says this breaks EU free trade rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRODUCERS of wine in Belarus can heave a sigh of relief; if they import wine must from France to ferment, they can still brand it as French wine, under a global rule of origin proposed by a special World Trade Organisation committee.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the development of an international utility Internet service, which will allow water companies to reduce their procurement costs by calling in bids from a wide range of suppliers.

Ondeo Nalco, a subsidiary of the French group Suez, and RWE’s Thames Water are co-operating to form a joint-venture that will offer electronic procurement, as well as information and bid management services to companies in water-related sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESTRICTIONS imposed by the French government on personal imports of standard and homeopathic medicines via the post, from other European Union Member States, are to be challenged at the European Court of Justice. The European Commission is bringing a case against Paris, claiming that the rules “constitute a disproportionate obstacle to free movement of medicinal products in the internal (EU) market.”…