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BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BMW is developing a new high-tech system to prevent drivers falling asleep at the wheel, after research by the German Insurance Association (GdV) revealed that tiredness caused a quarter of all fatal accidents on autobahns.

BMW’s “driving alertness assistant” operates using a small camera fitted inside the car, which examines eye blinking patterns to assess how watchful or tired the driver is.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
1902-1912

British American Tobacco was created on September 29th 1902 as a joint venture between Imperial Tobacco Company of the UK and the American Tobacco Company of the US following a fierce trade war. The parent companies agreed not to trade in each other’s domestic territory and to assign trademarks, export businesses and overseas subsidiaries to the joint venture.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
GERMANY is set to become the first European country to transpose the controversial EU End-of-Life Vehicle Directive (ELV), while Britain appears to be dragging its feet over implementation.

All 15 Member States failed to meet the ELV deadline of April 21, 2002, for introducing laws on the disposal and recycling of vehicles.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
FIVE YEARS since it was first proposed, the End-of-Life (ELV) Vehicle Directive has just about made it to the statute books of a handful of EU member states. A directive both controversial and complex, it was maybe surprising, if a little disappointing, that the deadline of April 21, 2002 for transposition went by without a single EU country passing legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVERSING its earlier position, the European Commission has agreed that the German grid feed-in laws on the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources and from combined heat and power do not constitute state aid, that Brussels could, in theory, ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has ordered Germany to stop blocking the

sale of the Austrian drink Original Schwedenbitter by claiming it to be a

medicinal product which requires special authorisation.

Original Schwedenbitter is sold in Austria without restriction as a

herb-based alcoholic beverage but is traditionally bought in Germany as a

cure for several illnesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN government has launched an investigation after it was discovered that around 100 organic farms have been feeding chickens wheat containing the banned herbicide Nitrofen. The agriculture ministry in Lower Saxony, where the tainted wheat was first discovered, has claimed that contaminated meat and eggs have already been sold and consumed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. has recently won a court judgment in New York to begin seizing assets to recover US$330 million from Castor Holdings Ltd., a defunct Montreal-based holding company and real estate lender formerly headed by Wolfgang Stolzenberg, a German-Canadian businessman suspected of orchestrating one of Canada’s most colossal fraud scams.…