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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is examining whether the European Union’s (EU) beef labelling system identifying relevant slaughterhouses and farms, should be reformed to enable beef to be stamped ‘made in the EU’. Under the current EU system, countries of origin are named, causing, claims the Commission in a report, some “re-nationalisation” of the beef trade, especially in retail.…

Keith Nuthall
A CHECKLIST of stopgap reforms to staunch the flow of fraud within European Union (EU) VAT collection systems has been proposed by a European Commission ready to admit that comprehensive change is politically unacceptable to member states. Aware that countries such as Britain are all too ready to veto tax harmonisation proposals, the Commission warns current estimates say governments lose up to 10 per cent of VAT receipts to fraud.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PERSONNEL managers may well consider the European Court of Justice (ECJ) a somewhat austere body, constantly engaged in arcane institutional and corporate matters. Think again. It can well be argued that the ECJ has had a more direct impact on the lives and work of the European Union’s 380 million citizens, including of course those in Britain, than any other single organisation.…

KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY has moved away from an aggressive approach towards cutting industrial greenhouse gas pollution, watering down planned commitments within a national allocation plan under the European Union’s (EU) emission trading scheme. Brokered by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the new agreement earmarks 503 million tonnes of carbon dioxide credits annually to its industry (including power generators) between 2005 and 2007, a minor reduction (0.4 per cent) to current emissions (505 million tonnes).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEEN in the context of the past decade, the entry of 10 new member states to the European Union (EU) which took place on May 1 has proved nothing like the disaster for the nuclear industry that was once feared.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UTILITIES enjoying market privileges who will in the future continue to be covered by European Union (EU) public procurement rules when buying in goods and services have been asked to comment on European Commission plans to reform the policing of this open tendering system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) organisation tasked with reviving the war-damaged south-eastern Balkans has released a plan to move Macedonia’s wine industry from a bulk producer of cheap wine towards a higher-end standards, tapping western export markets. The country has a wine-making tradition, but since the rise (and fall) of communism, it has been characterised by a command economy inspired indifference to quality.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) organisation tasked with reviving the war-damaged south-eastern Balkans has released a plan to move Macedonia’s wine industry from a bulk producer of cheap wine towards a higher-end sector, tapping western export markets. The country has a wine-making tradition, still exhibits a (former) communist command economy inspired indifference to quality.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
RESPONSIBLE Care as a concept has been a touchstone of the paint industry for many years, but it should in the coming months prove its worth in the UK and continental Europe. As is often the case with environmental legislation impacting on the paint and coatings industry, an important driver is the European Union (EU), which has approved a raft of directives that come into effect either this year or shortly afterwards.…

BY PHILIP FINE

EMPLOYEE pension fund managers from three US states (including New York) have used their shareholder voting rights to press 10 North American oil companies to share their business plans on climate change. They have targeted Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, Anadarko Petroleum and Devon Energy, for instance.…