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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been censured for failing to abide by European Union freedom of trade laws by imposing tough labelling laws for perfumes or cosmetic fragrances, which insist that packaging declares whether they are natural or artificial.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
FIVE YEARS since it was first proposed, the End-of-Life (ELV) Vehicle Directive has just about made it to the statute books of a handful of EU member states. A directive both controversial and complex, it was maybe surprising, if a little disappointing, that the deadline of April 21, 2002 for transposition went by without a single EU country passing legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECLINE in the European Union’s use and production of coal over the past 50 years has been documented in a detailed paper by EU statistical agency Eurostat to mark the end of the European Coal and Steel Community.…

BY MARK ROWE
ANOTHER leader in the ASU30 and lights segments, the American blended Pall Mall remains BAT’s leading global mid-price brand, sold in 60 countries. Launched in 1900, it today sells particularly well in eastern and central Europe as well as Italy and last year saw volumes up by 21 per cent.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN leather sector is receiving a major boost from its national government, both in terms of increased production support and export assistance. Industry players are hopeful of receiving IND Rupees 8 billion support under the country’s 10th (five year) Plan.…

KEITH NUTHALL
WATER companies may be able to help the European Union and its Member States improve standards in the sector within developing countries, as part of an initiative to be launched by Brussels at the oncoming World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, this August and September.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
Tyre producer, Pirelli Pneus SA, a subsidiary of Italy’s Pirelli SpA, is likely to receive financial assistance from the European Investment Bank to help the company flourish in the South American market.

The bank has drawn up plans to lend the company Euro 44 million to modernise and extend an existing plant in Feira de Santana, in Bahia Brazil, to produce radial tyres for light vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has blocked Italy from paying credits to its olive and olive oil sector, saying that it would be illegal state aid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has welcomed the announcement from Argentina that it has complied with last year’s ruling of the World Trade Organisation and lifted anti-dumping duties that it has been imposing on imports of ceramic tiles from Italy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SOCIOLOGISTS and police have gathered together at Europol’s headquarters in the Hague, to share intelligence on a number of killings across Europe that appear to have been ritualistic in nature; these include the “Adam” case, where the savagely dismembered torso of a boy about five years old, was found in the Thames last September.…