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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked EU ministers to re-impose for another five years the existing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of gas-fuelled, non-refillable pocket flint lighters and certain refillable pocket flint lighters, made in China and Taiwan. If approved, the rate of duty shall be set at Euro 0.065.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRACTICAL advice on how local authorities can cope with the growing threats posed by floods and droughts have been included in a new report from the European Environment Agency, which claims that flooding is “the most common and most costly type of natural disaster in Europe.”…

BY KATE REW
A NEW engine management control system, which for the first time uses cylinder pressure sensors, has been successfully demonstrated by a consortium led by UK engineering consulting company, Ricardo, with the collaboration of DaimlerChrysler and a high-tech Swiss company, Kistler.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to punish five Polish pallet producers who the European Commission alleges have failed to abide by promises not to dump cheap products on the EU market, thereby escaping anti-dumping duties of up to 10.6 per cent agreed established in 1997.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been formally asked to approve writing the new Protocol on Water and Heath to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes into EU law. The treaty commits signatories to ensuring adequate drinking water and sanitation, while preventing waterborne pollution and disease.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
FINNISH steel companies Rautaruukki and Outokumpu are set to benefit from European Commission funding of Euro 600,000 granted to support the distribution of steel across Europe using alternatives to road transport.

The funded transport project is part of the EU’s PACT programme, which aims to move containers and similar units away from roads to rail, sea and inland waterways.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the creation of three joint ventures by the German company Siemens VDO Automotive AG and the Japanese company Yazaki Corporation, who want to combine their electronic electrical distribution systems operations for passenger cars. The deal would create two new companies handling the sale, programme management and development of these systems, for Siemens and Yazaki customers in Europe and the USA.…

Keith Nuthall
ADVICE on how to create integrated pollution control policies within breweries has been included in a comprehensive EU report on limiting the impact of the beverage and food industries on the environment. The report drew upon research covering eastern European countries hoping to join the European Union, as well as existing Member States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
November 28, 2000:

*Trilogy Retail Enterprises, a private company run by Gerry Schwartz and his wife Heather Reisman, announced that it would make an offer to Chapters Inc. shareholders to purchase 4,888,000 common shares of the company at a cash price of $CAN 13 per share.…