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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has demanded that the Polish government reforms a sliding scale determining the cost of original registration fees for cars, that hinders fleet managers’ sale of used vehicles. This rate depends on the age of the car, so new cars – made in or imported immediately into Poland – attract the lowest fees, and cars imported into the country when old incur the highest fees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOTHING manufacturers without trademark rights to a brand in a particular European Union (EU) country, cannot rely on such rights in another EU state to prevent rivals transporting goods carrying this mark: this principle has been recommended to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by an ECJ advocate general saying "in the absence of uncertainty" that rival manufacturers will not sell such brands in the transit country, EU law stops original manufacturers using local trademark rights to block transports.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WELSH sustainable energy firm has proved ‘where there’s muck there’s brass’ by helping build a heat generator for Polish cities, running on sewage sludge. Sustainable energy consultancy ETP Ltd, of Cardiff, worked with Polish manufacturer ABM Solid, of Tarnow, to build a ‘fluidised bed boiler’ heating a wastewater treatment plant at Poland’s Niepolomice.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN the space of less than three years the German cigarette market has gone from being Europe’s most stable, profitable and legislation-free into one beset by obstacles almost everywhere you look. In the words of an independent report just issued by the market number two British American Tobacco, the industry has "overnight….found…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POLITICAL battle is underway at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over whether EU import duties on unwrought aluminium should be retained or scrapped. The struggle pits Poland and eight other member states against Germany, which wants the current 6% duties retained.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRESIDENT of Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency Jerzy Niewodniczanski has told Polish paper Zycie Warszawy that his government was interested in cooperating in building and operating a multi-national nuclear power plant with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WE’RE barely a third of the way through 2006 but it’s already clear that the year is going to be a hugely important one for European Union (EU) legislation affecting both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE POLISH government has banned sales of Chinese ‘ZhenLiPin’ nail varnish art and striper pens, because they contains dibutyl phthalate (DBP), classified "toxic to reproduction" under European Union (EU) directive 67/548/EEC on dangerous substances. It is also prohibited in cosmetics under the EU cosmetics directive 76/768/EEC.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has ordered its committees of national officials to stage a "thorough examination" of the official EU definition of vodka, because of a row between member states over its terms. Poland, supported by Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden, is resisting a European Commission proposal to allow vodka to continue being sold in the EU using non-traditional ingredients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CATTLE prices rose across the European Union (EU) last year, according to the latest figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, but fell for other livestock. Cattle prices increased by 3%, although with wide variations between member states: up 12.3% in Germany and 2.5% in France, but down 2.1% in Britain.…