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Keith Nuthall
REFORMS that are needed to promote a seamless single market in financial services that spans the whole European Union will be debated on Friday, (Feb 22), in Brussels, with the European Commission inviting private sector representatives, regulators, national governments and other EU institutions to a key meeting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GROWING thaw in relations between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar and its airport, has prompted the European Commission to retable a long-standing proposal to establish a European Union regime on the safety inspection of aircraft from non-EU countries.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the takeover of Berlin district heating and electricity company Berliner Kraft-und Licht Aktiengesellschaft, (Bewag), by the diversified Swedish energy group Vattenfall AB, which also supplies heating services. Via the deal, Vattenfall will acquire full ownership and control over Bewag.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE CO-GENERATION of electricity from waste oil is being promoted in the European Union through excise duty exemptions, which have been erected in the face of official EU environmental policy, a new European Commission report says.

Its “Critical Review of Existing Studies and Life Cycle Analysis on the Regeneration and Incineration of Waste Oils” points out that Council Directive 75/439/EC on Waste Oils tries to make Member States prioritise regeneration over burning.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced reforms to its state aid rules for large-scale projects, which particularly affect the European Union’s synthetic fibre sector. From January 1, 2003, the industry will be subject to transitional rules maintaining the strict approach of the current sector specific rules; in particular, projects will not be eligible for investment aid.…

Keith Nuthall
SHOE, fashion footwear and accessory designs are to receive uniform legal protection across the European Union in the future because of the agreement by the EU Council of Ministers of a new Regulation on the subject; it accords designers legal protection from the theft of their ideas, short of patent or copyright protection, but significant enough to deter plagiarists.…

BY MARK ROWE
SHIPPING companies and their related organisations are being invited to submit bids for funding under a new Euro 280 million North Sea initiative launched by the European Union.

Grants will be made available for projects that will promote efficient and integrated transport and maritime systems in the North Sea and its adjacent coastal regions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) has warned companies to avoid an offer from a German company ZDR-Datenregister to register their trademark in a so-called Central Data-Register Community Trade Marks, for payment of Euro 1,235.40.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union companies alerting European Commission investigators about cartels of which they form a part, will find it easier to escape scot-free from their crimes in future, because of a new so-called “leniency policy” launched by Brussels to promote whistle-blowing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY has admitted there were flaws in its testing for BSE in certain non-approved laboratories. The German agriculture minister Renate Kunast detailed “certain deficiencies” to other EU farm ministers this week, but said that measures had now been taken to correct matters on the advice of the European Commission.…