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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has filed an appeal against the dismissal of its cigarette smuggling action in the US against three tobacco companies: Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds and Japan Tobacco. Notably, it has received formal support in the proceedings from the US Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association for its action, along with the World Health Organisation, the US Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A DYNAMIC online forum on European energy policy has been launched by an international consortium; the European Union-funded INTUSER website contains information about current energy issues and questionnaires allowing specialists and the public to contribute to policy debates. The three year project’s website includes special sections on alternative, renewable, fossil and nuclear energy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked Belgium to liberalise laws impeding laboratories from carrying out clinical analyses for patients. The Commission wants Belgium to scrap regulations insisting that for such laboratories to receive money via the country’s social insurance scheme, they have to be headed up administratively by doctors, pharmacists or chemical science graduates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked all European Union Member States to provide information about how they are controlling substances that damage the ozone layer. Member States were required to provide this information by the end of last year, but the data has not been submitted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Belgium may be charged in the European Court of Justice unless it changes its legislation on the imposition of tobacco excise duties within two months, the European Commission said today (Monday).

The complaint is over the Belgian practice of demanding payment of excise duties at the time a “fiscal mark” is issued and not when the products are released for consumption, as laid down in EU regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BELGIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to bring its health and safety laws in line with the 1990 Euratom directive on the operational protection of outside workers exposed to the risk of ionising radiation during their activities in controlled areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECLINE in the European Union’s use and production of coal over the past 50 years has been documented in a detailed paper by EU statistical agency Eurostat to mark the end of the European Coal and Steel Community.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission is to take action against Belgium in the European Court of Justice over the failure of that country to implement the EU public lending rights directive. Belgium has failed to introduce legislation granting authors and artists exclusive rights to authorise or prohibit public lending or, alternatively, a right to remuneration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIAN power utilities Electrabel and SPE will continue to receive grants from their national government compensating them for having to help pay for dismantling installations at the Mol-Dessel experimental nuclear site, even though the country’s electricity system has been liberalised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EMEA’s Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products has given a positive opinion on a range of insulin medicines, namely Actrapid, Actraphane, Insulatard, Mixtard, Monotard, Protophane, Ultratard and Velosulin. The committee also began risk-benefit reviews of gatifloxacin, (containing Bonoq, Crispin, Urobonoq, Urocrispin and associated product names) and nimesulide containing medicinal products (Aulin, Mesulide, Nimed and associated product names).…