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BY AUDREY STUART

Number of French smokers rise, but tobacco sales stagnate

Government efforts to stop people smoking are partly working – smokers are consuming fewer cigarettes per day. However, the number of smokers in France is growing, despite price rises and new pictoral health warnings.…

BY MINDY RAN

ROTTERDAM is already Europe’s largest port and hence of importance for the import and export of waste materials from and to the European Union (EU) and this role is to strengthen.

For Rotterdam, the world’s fourth largest industrial port, behind China’s Shanghai and Ningbo, then Singapore, already utilises 26,000 acres, of which 12,500 acres are commercial sites and 13,500 acres water docks, rail lines, roads and pipeline zones.…

BY MARGUERITE-JEANNE DESCHAMPS, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and WANG FANGQING

While sales of alcohol in pubs and bars in North America, Europe and the UK have seen a steady decline since the global economic downturn, experts are saying the shift from on-trade to off-trade sales of alcohol has not really had a financial impact on the alcoholic beverage industry as a whole.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced Euro EUR700 million has been paid to energy projects under a programme to help drag Europe out of recession – but administrative delays mean the announcement has come well into the economic recovery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BELGIUM has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to impose penalties on companies breaching the rules of European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH. The court said Belgium had "failed to fulfil its obligations" under EU law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, DEIRDRE MASON and MJ DESCHAMPS

Car dealers like a good deal – that’s a given. And they hate a bad deal. But when they are getting a bad deal, and the wool is being pulled over their eyes – well, that takes the biscuit.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

INFORMATION technology innovations and especially the Internet have certainly changed the anti-money laundering and compliance officials share, store and access information, but as high-tech solutions become more streamlined and interconnected, one concern that still arises is security. Such concerns are increasingly being voiced as regards cloud computing, whose bulk remote digital muscle is regarded as attractive by financial institutions in boosting their work against money laundering and terrorist financing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has told manufacturers of intermediate chemicals – including those used in the paint, coatings and solvent sectors – they may have to submit more information under REACH chemical control system. ECHA screened more than 400 dossiers of substances declared as intermediates and has said that 86% have not proved that this special status should apply – the agency requires less information on intermediates than standard chemical substances.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BELGIUM has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to impose penalties on companies breaching the rules of European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH. The court said Belgium had "failed to fulfil its obligations" under EU law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) scientists are developing targeted anti-smoking medicines avoiding side-effects such as sleeplessness and muscle problems. The EU’s NEUROCYPRES project has focused on brain pathways called ion channels which are opened and shut by certain chemicals. These can promote nicotine addiction, as well as sleep and muscle difficulties.…