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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Sweden to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over alleged unfair tax discrimination against wine in comparison to beer. Brussels said that the Swedish tax system unfairly protects locally consumed beer, which is mainly produced domestically, whereas wine is imported.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN beer discounter Lakeport Brewing Corp. has announced plans to further cut the price of its beer to the lowest price allowed under Ontario law; a move that has intensified the ongoing price war in country’s largest beer market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRAZIL and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are setting up an International Forum on Creative Industries. Based in Brazil, it will help developing countries generate wealth from creative industries, such as the recording, photography, commercial art, music production and films.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
STAVROS Dimas, the next EU Commissioner for Environmental Affairs, was criticised as one of the weaker cards in the Barroso Commission pack when he appeared before a European Parliament hearing last week.

There was cross-party sentiment that the former Greek Industry Minister did not have sufficient experience of environmental matters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MORROCAN-French-Austrian consortium has won a contract in what the International Finance Corporation says is the first private-public-partnership irrigation project. The group building the US$85 million Guerdane scheme’s dam and water channels will be led by Morocco’s Omnium Nord-Africain (ONA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be the most underestimated commercial crime in the world, the illegal trade in wildlife and their products. Some estimates put its value at US$5 billion-a-year, but governments do not really seem to care. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has weakened the defence of two Frenchmen fighting criminal charges that they illegally produced a banned chemical substance used to help artists’ paints dry.

Olivier Dupuy and Hervé Rouvre, directors of Colart International, of Le Mans, are being prosecuted for producing and selling publicly ‘Siccatif de Courtrai blanc’, ‘Siccatif de Courtrai brun’ and ‘Huile Noire’, products with a high lead content.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUSPENSION of chicken product imports into the European Union (EU) of chicken products and birds from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, China, South Korea and Vietnam will remain until March 31, 2005. The extension, (from December), of the bird flu ban was confirmed by the EU’s Standing Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is preparing to train young public health professionals from developing countries, to spread international expertise in the subject worldwide. Over the next four years, qualified and experienced professionals under 38-years-old will take two-year courses, funded by US$5 million from Microsoft’s Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCOMING European industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has accepted a “potential risk of some loss of export market share for the chemical sector in the short run” because of the European Union’s (EU) REACH system. Answering a European Parliament questionnaire, he said longer term competitiveness effects would depend on whether REACH becomes “a new international standard”.…