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BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
A CHILD of divorced parents is entitled to receive an advance on maintenance payments from a foreign government in the European Union if one separated parent lives in its country, the European Supreme court has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Britain’s Britannia Alloys & Chemicals Ltd, James Brown Ltd and Trident Alloys Ltd, plus Germany’s Heubach GmbH & Co. KG, France’s Société Nouvelle des Couleurs Zinciques S.A., and Norway’s Waardals Kjemiske Fabrikker A/S a total of Euro 11.95 million for participating in a price-fixing and market-sharing cartel in zinc phosphate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIGNIFICANT trend towards the consolidation in the European Union’s insurance sector has been highlighted by a report from the EU’s statistical agency Eurostat, which has released detailed data about 1999.

In that year, said the study, the number of EU insurance businesses decreased by 8.4 per cent between 1996 and 1999, with a particularly sharp decline in Britain, where numbers fell by 23.7 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of good practice recommendations on the prevention and detection of e-coli outbreaks has been issued by the European Commission, following a study of how six EU Member States deal with the pathogen.

Officials looked at the monitoring and control systems for red meat and milk in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal and Sweden and concluded that although all were alert to the risks of e-coli contamination, there was a wide range of different public and private control measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission may threaten legal action against national governments in the European Union, after 12 out of 16 Member States failed to meet the January 16 deadline for implementing the EU e-commerce directive. A statement from Brussels has revealed that only Luxembourg, Austria and Germany approved laws based on the directive by that date.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a significant legal obstacle preventing the French government going ahead with plans to spend national state aid on subsidising start-up short sea shipping runs.

Brussels has ordered that such grants would be legal under European Union state aid regulations.…

BY MARK ROWE
FRENCH shipping line Delmas has begun a direct link between Singapore and East Africa to take advantage of growing container trade volumes with Asia. The East Africa-Far East service provides an 11-day connection between Singapore and Mombasa, compared with other indirect services that take up to 20 days.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has now virtually completed its legislative journey through the EU institutions and is set to begin operations in the first half of next year though we’re still not sure where. Helsinki was the favourite for the seat until the Italian prime minister signor Berlusconi rudely pushed the claims of Parma, dismissing the Finns as “people who don’t know what prosciutto is.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an investigation into state aid payments made by the French government to compensate shellfish farmers harmed by the oil spill following the sinking of the tanker Erika in the Bay of Biscay and also damages from a particularly violent storm, both in December 1999.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a curious fact that whilst Britain has a lot more wind than Germany, it has significantly less wind power electricity generation. Also, why has a country blessed with as much sun as Greece, failed to develop solar panels as quickly as its fellow southern Mediterranean EU Member State Spain?…