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BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

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BY ALAN OSBORN

The European Court of Justice has found in favour of two Belgian drivers working in Luxembourg who challenged a decision over vehicle registration by the Belgian government. Criminal proceedings had been brought against the two men for infringing Belgian laws requiring registration of company cars made available to them by Luxembourg-based companies.…

FROM KEITH NUTHALL

Commission’s White Paper on European Communication Policy. Debating Europe – involving citizens

The European Commission today adopted a White Paper on a European Communication Policy. Vice-President of the Commission, Margot Wallstrom, said: "Communication is first and foremost a matter of democracy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LEVIS may have won a partial victory at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over a bid to protect as a trademark ‘gull’ shape stitching on its rear jeans pockets. ECJ advocate general Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colome has advised that national judges should allow such protection if they find consumers associated a clothing design with a particular brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

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BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined 16 firms Euro 290.71 million for operating a cartel in the plastic industrial bags market, in clear violation of European Union (EU) fair trade rules. One British participant – British Polythene Industries PLC – escaped being penalised, along with Belgium’s Combipac BV, however, after they tipped off the Commission about the cartel, which covered Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission and the Belgian Federal Food Chain Security Agency are investigating the contamination of animal feed with poisonous dioxins, some exported to Germany and the Netherlands. Hundreds of farms have been closed in the alert, caused by defective filters at Belgian chemical producer Tessenderlo Chemie.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has refused to reduce or scrap a Euro 270,000 fine ordered by the European Commission against Belgian brewer Brouwerij Haacht NV, of Boortmeerbeek, for participating in a beer cartel with Alken-Maes, Interbrew and Martens.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE EUROPEAN automotive industry is gearing up for tighter pollution emission limits, possibly by mid-2008, under the European Union’s (EU) Euro 5 program, due to be announced by the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium on 21 December. Also expected to be announced in parallel to these restrictions on engine performance and fuel cleanliness is a carrot to encourage use of new technologies and to create a market for clean vehicles through an EU Environmental Technologies Action Plan.…