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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by the German government of state aid worth Euro 28.13 million to DOW PET GmbH to extend its PET production site in Schopkau, Saxony, eastern Germany. The aid will be granted as investment premium via the country’s Investitionszulagengesetz scheme and will meet 23.44 per cent of the total Euro 120 million cost of the project.…

KEITH NUTHALL
LISTERIA monocytogenes contaminants have been found in Spanish sea bass and German smoked salmon, according to a recent bulletin from the European Commission’s rapid alert service on food safety. The system also publicises alerts on fish imported into the European Union, recently highlighting aerobic mesophiles in Indonesian shrimp, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen will reveal a litany of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases when he releases his programme this month for the oncoming European elections. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen is publishing a book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’ on April 28, which will officially be his election manifesto.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a law governing the reimbursement of medical expenses paid by German civil servants breaks European Union (EU) fair trade treaty commitments because it insists that the prospect of success for such treatment must be higher when bought abroad than in Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN government has warned the European Commission’s consumer product safety service RAPEX of a voluntary product recall by bedding supplier Espalma, because of the use of the toxin pentachlorophenol in some of its bed linen, duvet covers and pillows.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of French coking plant Cokerie de Carling, by German companies Dillinger Hütte and Saarstahl (SAG), through their iron-making joint venture Rogesa. Following a month-long review, the Commission has concluded the deal does not pose competition concerns – approving the sale unconditionally – because of the small scale of the Franco-German border plant’s production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES to increase the amount of checks that have to be made on driver’s tachographs and working time records are being resisted by the European Parliament’s transport committee. The European Commission wants to increase these checks from covering at least one per cent to three per cent of days worked by drivers, however, MEPs have proposed amendments saying that two per cent is enough.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LORRY drivers driving concealed cigarettes into the European Union are liable for duty, even when duped into smuggling, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The EU’s Community Customs Code requires drivers to declare all goods, “including those hidden in a secret compartment specially made for that purpose…even though the goods were hidden in the vehicle without their knowledge”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THEY’RE not to everybody’s taste, we quite agree, but there’s no doubt that flavoured cigars have a very devoted band of followers and can no longer be dismissed as a passing fancy. Indeed after speaking to a number of the big players it is easy to gain the impression that the flavoured, (or aromatic), segment has (along perhaps with filters) been the only one to buck the cigar sector’s trend of falling or stagnant sales in recent years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of French coking plant Cokerie de Carling, by German companies Dillinger Hütte and Saarstahl (SAG), through their iron-making joint venture Rogesa. The Commission has approved the sale unconditionally because of the French state-owned plant’s small production.…