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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that European Union (EU) member states may ban the sale of unwrapped chewing gum from automatic vending machines on health grounds, if they so choose.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL
MIRRORS are being posted around the Austrian Alps city of Rattenburg, which is losing population because a nearby steep hillside denies it winter sunlight. This high ground made Rattenburg a safe place in the Middle Ages, but it is now making Rattenberg unpopular, by blocking the sun.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal a lorry ban on a key motorway in the Austrian Tyrol, linking Germany to Italy. Judges have declared that the regional law breaks European Union (EU) treaty rules on free movements of goods and so must be lifted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FERROUS and non-ferrous metal companies paid together millions of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. More than 150 suppliers of ferrous metal products ranging from carbon steel plates, steel coil, steel joists, galvanised steel cores, steel bars, steel pipes, fabricated steel and others are named in the report, as are around 50 suppliers of aluminium, copper and lead.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THIS week’s launch of protracted negotiations leading to Turkey joining the European Union (EU) will stimulate further judicial reform in a country criticised for past human rights abuses. A ‘negotiating framework’ accepted by the Turks and all EU member states – including Austria, which was unhappy over accepting the accession talks – stressed Turkey must “bring its…judicial systems up to Union standards”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal the imposition of regional bans within the EU on growing GM crops. It said a prohibition in the Austrian region of Upper Austria broke EU free trade rules.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE
IN the Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian paint markets there is always an extra ingredient that must be thrown into the mix: politics. The political situation, internal or external, can have positive knock-on effects, such as Jordan’s booming construction market due to an influx of Iraqi refugees, or negatively, such as in Lebanon, where the sector is experiencing something of a slump due to political instability.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control of seafood firm Nordsee, of Germany, by a consortium involving the UK subsidiary of Japanese investment bank Nomura, a private investor Mr Heiner Kamps, and TML-Invest, of Switzerland, (owned by German food company the Müller Group).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…