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BY ALAN OSBORN
A DECISION by the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance to uphold a move by the European Commission to block the proposed acquisition of Gas de Portugal by Energias and ENI has dismayed the European electricity industry, which believes the prohibition stands in the way of creating a genuine pan-European electricity market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the Portuguese government to grant Euro 45.2 million in state aid to pharmaceutical company Portela and C° SA (BIAL), for researching and developing two new medicines for the central nervous system. Brussels approved the subsidy on regional development grounds because the company is based in a poor area of northern Portugal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of a fishing agreement that will give 40 European Union (EU) tuna seiners and 17 surface longliners access to the Indian Ocean waters off the Comoros archipelago. Asking EU ministers to approve the deal, Brussels said it would cover an annual catch of 6,000 tonnes of tuna in Comoros waters until December 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DRUG officials in the European Union (EU) have confessed to being such cultural dinosaurs, it was five years after reports about ecstasy emerged in youth, music and lifestyle magazines before they started collecting and reporting data on the drug.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE and Italy will share Euro 1.57 million of European Union (EU) money for promoting the sale of their hams within the EU over the next three years, along with their cheeses and wines. The countries will provide matching national funding.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PORTUGUESE government has failed at the European Court of Justice to defend a contested claim it had abided by European Union law regarding the number of spot-checks regarding special beef premiums for 1999. The European Commission has long maintained that there were too few checks; producers may now have to return some subsidies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend the majority of a new Euro 5 million budget over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro millions over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Announcing the latest of a series of such grants, (matched by national funding), Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has blocked a bid by Mexico’s Cervecería Modelo’s to secure European Union (EU) trademark protection for its beer Negra Modelo. This has been opposed by Portugal supermarket group Modelo Continente Hipermercados, which secured its own EU rights to the trademark ‘Modelo’ in 1995, for goods including “syrups, beers, refreshing drinks and non-alcoholic beverages”.…

BY LIZ HALL
SPAIN’S paint and coating industry has every right to be self-congratulatory at present: the widespread investment and business improvements of recent years have paid off with the sector securing a well-earned place alongside its counterparts elsewhere in the developed world.…