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BY KEITH NUTHALL
SAFETY assessment procedures for authorising manufactured smoke flavourings have been proposed by the European Commission. They are produced by condensing fresh smoke into water.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fixed Greece’s cotton production this year at 1.25 million tonnes, resulting in EU aid of Euro 571 million (Pounds 354 million) and a minimum price of Euro 593-a-tonne (Pounds 368). New rules have been introduced to prevent a volume of cotton being placed on the market which, said the Commission, “could have an adverse effect on the environment and cause significant falls in the price paid to growers.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLANS to impose 100 per cent retaliatory duties on US exports of ball-point, felt-tipped, fountain and stylograph pens, as well as propelling or sliding pencils, pen-holders, pencil-holders, plus caps and clips have been postponed from June 18 to September 30 after Washington started backing down and removing a number of its steel tariffs.…

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
A BID by Northumbrian Water to comply with the European Union’s revised drinking water and urban wastewater treatment directives could net the utility up to Pounds 100 million in loans from the European Investment Bank. Its officials are considering funding a number of water supply and wastewater schemes throughout Northumbrian’s northern England service area.…

BY ALAN OSBORN AND PHILIP FINE

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition authority has cleared the purchase

by General Motors of a series of production and sales outlets of the South

Korean car manufacturer Daewoo.

GM is to acquire some of Daewoo’s production facilities for passenger cars

and light commercial vehicles in Korea and Vietnam together with sales

subsidiaries in Austria, the Benelux region, (Belgium, Netherlands and

Luxembourg), France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STAY of execution has been granted to American knitwear exporters, after the European Union Council of Ministers decided it would postpone the implementation of a first round of protective duties, erected in retaliation to the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel.…

KEITH NUTHALL
SPINOFF technology from the European Space Agency has been used to create knitted steel flameproof textiles, which have been designed to protect the outside of road haulage containers from vandals. French company Société Ariégeoise de Bonneterie has adapted materials used on ESA’s Ariane rocket launchers, modifying the knitting technique to create a flexible fabric of steel wire that is extremely difficult to cut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the creation of a new Euro 13 million per annum scheme to monitor the health of Europe’s forests. The programme would run from January 2003 until December 2008. The Commission would establish a Scientific Co-ordination Body within the EU’s Joint Research Centre to collect and assess data on forest health and pollution.…