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BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRAZEN political manoeuvres to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned reliable statistics on the extent of super-bug Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) in Europe is "largely unknown". The dangerous and highly robust germ has been shown present in 10 to 200 hospitalised American patients per 10,000 admissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MASS production of a vaccine to fight the H5N1 bird flu strain in humans could begin within a year, after pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline launched clinical trials in Germany and Belgium.

The company is testing two vaccines: the first would be targeted at fighting a pandemic after an outbreak; the second aimed at advance inoculations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) political leaders have agreed medium-term (2007-13) budgets for crucial spending projects for the energy sector: Trans European Networks (TENs) and the EU seventh framework programme (FP7) for research. On TENs, the European Parliament, Commission, and EU Council of Ministers have agreed a Euro 7.2 billion budget, Euro 500 million above previous drafts, although this will have to be split with TENs transport projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RETAILERS should not make selected price comparisons with rivals in advertising, if consumers henceforth believe all their products are cheaper, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Antonio Tizzano found Belgian food chain Colruyt may have breached European Union directive 84/450/EEC on misleading advertising by favourably comparing prices with rivals Carrefour, Cora, Delhaize, Aldi, Lidl, Makro.…

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ATTEMPTS to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has underlined its determination to forge a European Union (EU) energy policy with substance by a slew of legal actions against member states over renewables, liberalisation and biofuels. Brussels has started proceedings against Britain, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic for failing to report progress under the 2001 directive promoting renewable energy sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUPERMARKETS should not make selected price comparisons with rivals in advertising, if consumers henceforth believe all their products are cheaper, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Antonio Tizzano found Belgian food supermarket chain Colruyt may have breached European Union directive 84/450/EEC on misleading advertising in advertisements by favourably comparing some of its prices with those of rivals Carrefour, Cora, Delhaize, Aldi, Lidl, Makro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NATIONAL tax laws within the European Union (EU) that levy the same money from dividends earned from local companies as from those in other EU member states are legal, a European Court of Justice advocate general has ruled in a Belgian case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN is one of only seven European countries that are fully complying with key guidelines on institutional oversight of financial information issued by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). Its standard No.1 advises on how the harmonisation of institutional oversight systems in Europe maybe achieved, especially regarding enforcement of good practice.…