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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA’s O2Diesel Corporation will work with Spain’s Abengoa Bioenergy to sell O2Diesel’s ethanol diesel fuel blend in Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Abengoa will buy more than 10% of O2 stock with Euro 3 million.…

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 WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the spread of programmes tackling violence as a public health priority instead of just a crime problem, with the WHO saying such an approach fosters effective holistic policies. A recent conference, the 2nd Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, in San Francisco, co-hosted by the WHO and the California Wellness Foundation, heard of many new national models.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about delays in the implementation of a major piece of European Union (EU) environmental legislation have sparked a review by the European Commission, and will encourage it to pursue legal action in the courts. The law in question is the 1996 integrated pollution prevention and control directive, which insists large EU industrial and agricultural installations obtain operating permits – issued only if the best available techniques on controlling emissions are in use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about delays in the implementation of a major piece of European Union (EU) environmental legislation have sparked a review by the European Commission, and will encourage it to pursue legal action in the courts. The law in question is the 1996 integrated pollution prevention and control directive, which insists large EU industrial and agricultural installations obtain operating permits – issued only if the best available techniques on controlling emissions are in use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) internal market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has signalled that the European Commission will delay making any decisions on whether US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) can be formally recognised within the EU. He told a Brussels festive cocktail, of the Association of Corporate Treasurers in Belgium, that the Commission was continuing to consider whether GAAP "might be considered equivalent with IFRS", the international financial reporting standards now compulsory for EU listed companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHARMACEUTICAL companies paid together millions of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were more than 250 medicine suppliers, from countries, many from the Middle East, but also a significant number from Europe, named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-wide customs initiative has netted two huge hauls of fake branded cigarettes smuggled in from China. The consignments, totalling more than 17,203,000 cigarettes, were seized at Belgium’s major port, Antwerp, during a two-week exercise involving customs authorities, the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, and the European Commission’s taxation and customs directorate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-wide customs initiative has netted thousands of counterfeit articles of knitted clothing manufactured from China. Operation Fake was two-week exercise involving customs authorities, the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, and the European Commission’s taxation and customs directorate, and took place this May, although its results have just been released.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fired a shot across the bows of European Union (EU) professions that have tough entrance restrictions and limit competition amongst qualified experts, from lawyers, pharmacists and accountants to notaries, engineers and architects. EU competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes’s speech at a British government-organised seminar in London this week (21-11) comes as the Commission is holding a competition review of professional services.…