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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to make a formal inquiry into Germany’s ‘one-way’ drinks packaging deposit system on the grounds that it breaches European Union (EU) law by damaging trade between EU member countries. Under the system, introduced at the beginning of the year, retailers may only return deposits on empty cans and bottles when they have products of the same type, shape and size in stock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL gas giants ExxonMobil and Shell are to end cooperation over marketing supplies to customers in (largely north-western) Germany, removing this business from their 50/50 joint-venture BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH (BEB). Instead, the two companies will split its custom between them and start competing through their respective subsidiaries: ExxonMobil Gas Marketing Deutschland GmbH and Shell Erdgasbeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL gas giants ExxonMobil and Shell are to end cooperation over marketing supplies to customers in (largely north-western) Germany, removing this business from their 50/50 joint-venture BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH (BEB). Instead, the two companies will split its custom between them and start competing through their respective subsidiaries: ExxonMobil Gas Marketing Deutschland GmbH and Shell Erdgasbeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POLITICAL battle is brewing between the European Union (EU) insurance industry and the European Parliament over a safety net law defining the minimum cover that must be offered by insurers selling compulsory motoring policies, which are required by national laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of full control of the Finnish pharmaceutical distributor Tamro Oyj by German pharmacist Phoenix International Beteiligungs GmbH. The decision followed a cursory examination of the potential competition problems. The Commission swiftly decided there were none and fast tracked the decision, after being notified about the deal on August 29.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POLITICAL battle is brewing between the European Union (EU) insurance industry and the European Parliament over a safety net law defining the minimum cover that must be offered by insurers selling compulsory motoring policies, which are required by national laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission proposals to boost nuclear energy safety in Europe have come under fire from the British and German governments as well as the European Parliament, making it highly unlikely that they will be approved unscathed. In an unusual joint letter to the Commission, UK prime minister Tony Blair and German chancellor Gerhard Schröder criticised Brussels’ proposed directive, claiming that it would not deal tangible benefits in nuclear security.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has acquired a 15 per cent stake in insurance company Allianz-Slovenská poistovna from its German parent Allianz AG. Neither the bank nor the company are disclosing the money involved in the deal, but the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper has reported EBRD sources claiming it was Euro 50 million.…