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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the start-up of inreon, (NOTE: all letters in lower case) an online business-to-business reinsurance trading platform set up by Swiss Re and Munich Re. The service will enable insurers to obtain bids from reinsurers on big property and catastrophic risks and conclude contracts online.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN football association UEFA launched a joint-anti smoking campaign with the European Commission on the eve of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The two organisations booked television advertising space to broadcast their anti-tobacco message, using international footballers including French star Zinedine Zidane and Portugal’s Luis Figo.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN INFLUENTIAL environmental group is taking the world’s largest poultry company to court for allegedly failing to quell noxious releases emanating from its contracted farmers’ properties. The Sierra Club alleges that Kentucky-based Tyson Foods failed to report releases of ammonia at four of its suppliers’ chicken houses.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ENVIRONMENTAL group is taking the world’s largest poultry company to court for allegedly failing to take care of noxious releases on one of their contracted farms. The Sierra Club alleges that the US’s Kentucky-based Tyson Foods failed to report releases of ammonia on four large ‘chicken houses.’…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded report has claimed that technological advances have made it feasible to roll-out the next phase of offshore wind turbines, which could generate 100 MW, dwarfing the capacity of the current 80 MW models.

The Concerted Action on Offshore Wind Energy in Europe (CA-OWEE) project has concluded that “the physical and environmental challenges are within the grasp of the offshore and wind energy industries,” although there are still problems posed by “market uncertainties.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that a Spanish clothing, footwear and headgear company should have secured European trade mark rights to the word ‘Ellos,’ regarding a mail order service, though it should not use the brand-name for their products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Generally organic meat production in the EU is low, said, Jean-Luc Meriaux, general secretary of the European Livestock and Meat Trading Union. For instance, in the key sector of organic beef, “very little” is produced in the EU, he said.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has opened a formal State aid investigation

procedure into a decision by the German government to give financial

assistance to BMW for the construction of a new car plant in Leipzig. Total

investment in the factory is around 1.2 billion euros (about pounds 720

million) of which some 418.6 million euros (pounds 250 million) is covered

by the planned aid.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is piling political pressure onto industries, especially fossil fuel electricity generators, which pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to force them to clean up their processes, adding costs to their bottom line.

In a move that will only serve to make CHP and renewable plants more competitive by comparison, the Commission is preparing a raft of legal cases against eight European Union Member States, to force them to monitor and restrict their production of key greenhouse pollutants.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
More than 3,000 workers at the Nissan SA factory near Pretoria, South Africa, are on strike over the generation of a surplus of SARand 245 million (US$22.7 million) in Nissan SA’s retirement funds.

A spokesman for the National Union of Metal Workers (Numsa) Dumsa Ntuli said that the workers had downed tools quickly while the company had urgently sought a court order to stop workers from participating in industrial action.…