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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is buying a fleet of bicycles, to encourage Brussels’ Eurocrats to stop driving to work and between meetings. Cycle paths, parking spots and changing rooms will be installed for pedalling officials. And the Commission is offering from 2007 to pay for half a train/tram/bus pass for any of its 22,000 staff willing to forgo coveted access to the institution’s car parks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LEVIS has 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 national judges should allow such protection given proof consumers associated a clothing design with a particular brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MANY champagne-swigging Brussels Eurocrats are accustomed to taxis, first-class air travel and even chauffeurs, so environment-inspired European Commission plans to buy a fleet of bicycles for its staff may come as a shock. Cycle paths and parking spots will be installed to help nattily dressed officials pedal between meetings in Brussels swanky Léopold quarter, hopefully not in the rain.…

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 of which have been exported to Germany and the Netherlands. Hundreds of farms have been closed in the alert in all three countries, which was caused by defective filters at Belgian chemical producer Tessenderlo Chemie.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Sweden, have pressed the European Commission to reduce European Union (EU) sugar production quotas by 10% for 2006/7, because of a pan-EU 2 million sugar surplus generated in 2005/6. Germany said current intervention stocks should continue to be stored to protect prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN European Union (EU) consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%. As usual with culturally diverse Europe, however, there were wide national variations.…

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.…

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.…

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 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.…