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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) chemical control package REACH that has been causing metal companies serious concern is starting to move steadily towards the Brussels statute book, with the European Parliament preparing to start formal debates next month. Its responsible committee on the environment, public health and food safety stages its next meeting on November 23 and 24, following a session of the industry, research and energy committee, which has the right to propose its own amendments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUNISHING fines have been imposed by the European Commission on Spanish and Italian tobacco processors for operating a pricing and purchasing cartel between 1996 and 2001. Brussels has slammed Italy’s Deltafina with a Euro 11.8 million fine, as cartel leader and the main buyer of tobacco grown in Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover of dominant Italian tobacco distribution company Etìnera by Altadis-owned Logistica, of Spain. Brussels concluded the deal could boost competition because Etìnera is owned by British American Tobacco, which commands a significant share of Italy’s cigarette manufacturing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating whether planned Italian state aid payments of Euro 3.5 million to Sardinia’s Villasor sugar refinery break European subsidy rules and should be blocked.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUBLIC procurement procedures are illegal if they insist cost should be local authorities’ sole consideration in selecting a contractor for certain jobs, according to a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling. It concluded that an Italian law (109 of 1994) broke EU directive 93/37/EEC by insisting that except for certain construction and management jobs “contracting authorities use only the criterion of the lowest price”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH ministers from seven European Union (EU) countries have announced a plan to boost research cooperation to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Meeting in Paris, ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands agreed to jointly organise studies and clinical trials to speed up discoveries, avoiding wasteful duplicate testing.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AS recently as 1989 Yugoslavia was the richest and most westernised country in eastern and central Europe and arguably among the more politically stable of them. But then came the collapse. The ethnic fighting of the early 1990s led to breakaways by Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as independent states in 1992, leaving Serbia and Montenegro as the “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” under Slobodan Milosevic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCOMING European Commissioner for justice, liberty and security Rocco Buttiglione may press for the right of companies to use new European legal procedures to recover money from debtors in their own country. In answers to a questionnaire from the European Parliament ahead of his assuming office in November, the Italian said that such legal machinery should not be restricted to cross-border cases.…

BY MARK ROWE
AT first sight they would appear to be uneasy bedfellows. On the one hand, English Heritage, the British government’s advisory body with responsibility for the care and maintenance of the country’s historic environment; on the other, the Marxist-led government of the Indian state of West Bengal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added seven traditional food products to the EU register of protected geographical indications: Spanish beef Ternera de Navarre, Carne de Vacuno del País Vasco and Carne de Cantabria and veal Carne de la Sierra de Guadarrama, Portuguese sausages Farinheira de Estremoz e Borba, Italian Kiwi fruits Latina and Valle del Belice and France’s Noix du Périgord nuts.…