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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given a new warning to EU Member States against agreeing individual bilateral air transport deals with non-EU countries. It says “open skies” deals with the US give the Americans “considerable operational opportunities in the European market” but have no equivalent value for European airlines in the US.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a formal investigation into proposals from the German government to grant Euro 92.71 million to a new company, Capro Schwedt GmbH, for the setting up of a plant in Schwedt, Brandenburg, to produce synthetic fibre production staple caprolactam.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European Union directive has been proposed that would harmonise technical standards for the manufacture of forestry tractors and trailers, establishing a type approval procedure enabling these vehicles to be sold anywhere in the EU. Ministers have also been asked by the European Commission to extend similar technical harmonisation regulations to components.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to provide Euro 115 million in grants, (Pounds 71 million), which could be tapped to support investment into new intermodal freight projects enabling road transport operators to transfer cargo to rail and shipping services.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A PROPOSAL by the European Commission to end discrimination against non-EU nationals in the social security field could help local authority social services departments dealing with new immigrants ensure that their clients receive state benefits.

Brussels says that EU social security co-ordination rules covering the rights of citizens who move from one country to another, (and which up until now relate only to EU nationals, stateless persons, refugees and members of families and survivors of EU nationals), should apply to third country nationals in general.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU banana production, (mostly in Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Canaries), is likely to remain at current levels, with the EU Court of Auditors saying producers are not tapping special aid to convert to other crops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made good on its plans to table formal legislation forcing polluters to pay for the cleansing of the European Union’s land, seas, rivers and atmosphere from the toxins that they have released.

Ministers will now be asked to approve a directive on environmental liability, allowing public authorities to hold companies legally responsible, not only for repairing ecological damage, but also for taking precautions to prevent such problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency has publicised a warning made by German pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH that users of its product Metalyse have been incorrectly using the vial and pre-filled syringe used to administer the medicine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a new directive on the authorisation of traditional herbal medicines, providing a simplified registration procedure for products in use for at least 30 years. Although the quality thresholds match those for standard medicines, the usual compulsory tests on safety and efficacy can be replaced by an assessment of information about their use in the past three decades, even if some data was gathered outside the European Union.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally called on Belgium to bring into its national law a decree ensuring that authors and other copyright holders are paid when their works are provided for lending to the public. Since 1994, Belgium has failed to make any payments, nor has it proposed any alternative compensation, and “damage has been suffered by right-holders of every nationality,” in breach of EU law, the Commission claimed.…