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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSTRUCTION companies in Germany, Italy, Greece and Portugal may soon be forced to use quieter plant, including concrete mixers, mobile and tower cranes, dumper trucks and hydraulic excavators, because of legal threats against their national governments. The European Commission is warning it may launch cases at the European Court of Justice to force them to implement directive 2000/14/EC on noise emissions from outdoor equipment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a partial liberalisation of the rules covering wine labelling that should allow producers of ordinary still wine some scope for the use of more descriptive terms in the future. At present ordinary wine labels can carry only officially authorised terms whereas for sparkling wines and others, other words may be used, if they are not specifically banned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to grant Argentina some leeway over its dismantling of controls on the export of its bovine hides and the import of finished leather, as required by a World Trade Organisation disputes panel ruling, which went against Buenos Aires.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been warned by the European Commission that it risks being fined if it continues to flout a European Court of Justice ruling that it allow the import of British beef.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning 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. Brussels wants to impose the duties on June 18 in response to the controversial ‘safeguard’ duties erected by Washington to protect its steel industry.…

Keith Nuthall
THE REPUBLIC of Ireland has been sent a final legal warning note alleging that its government has failed to implement a EU scheme for monitoring CO2 emissions from new passenger cars. Under the scheme, Member States are supposed to send data to the European Commission annually, with the deadline for producing the first information report being July 1, 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TENDERS have been invited by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to set up a combined heat and power plant at Voznesensk tannery, the Ukraine. Part-funded by the bank, it would be operated by the Ukrainian Energy Service Company (UkrESCO), and would command a total installed electric power of 1,9-2,2 MW, with two or more gas-fired piston engines equipped with a flue gas heat recovery system, producing hot water of up to 90?.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of its review of the contested anti-dumping duties on Indian cotton-type bed linen imports, formally asking EU ministers to confirm, (and therefore re-impose), these suspended tariffs. New Delhi has already reacted angrily to the review, restarting disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LITHUANIA is trying to pressure the European Union into paying it massive financial support for decommissioning Ignalina nuclear power plant by 2009, which Brussels is demanding as a condition for allowing Vilnius to join the EU. In ongoing accession negotiations, Lithuania claims it cannot afford to carry out the work, estimating that it will cost Euro 3 billion.…