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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Akzo Nobel, BASF and UCB Euro 66.34 million for operating between 1992-8 a cartel for choline chloride (CORRECT SPELLING) cartel (poultry and pig feed additive vitamin B4). These Dutch, German and Belgium chemical companies set European prices and market shares with the USA’s DuCoa and Canada’s Chinook, escaping fines by leaving the cartel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CIGARETTES continue to be a key source of revenue for fraudsters and smugglers in the European Union (EU), with the EU institutions’ anti-fraud unit OLAF saying they have generated more criminal money than anything else in investigations open this June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN, France, Belgium and Sweden have been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement European Union (EU) directive 2001/17/EC on the reorganisation and winding-up of insurance undertakings. The UK government admitted that it had failed to comply with the directive as regards the Lloyd’s market and Gibraltar, and the court confirmed that it had “failed to fulfil its obligations” and ordered it to pay the case costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN clay producer Fuchs is at the centre of a row involving the contamination of animal feed with dioxin, after its kaolin – used by agricultural to separate potato peels from potatoes – was found to contain the cancer-causing chemical.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is largely on track for a timely start to its emissions trading system on January 1, with the unconditional approval in late October of six more CO2 emission allocation plans, from Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Portugal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) reference laboratory playing a key role in a new EU authorisation system for feed additives has been launched. Sited at the EU’s Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), in Geel, Belgium, the laboratory will check methods used to detect residues in feed and food and maintain reference samples of all approve additives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER 30 years of discussions, a European Union (EU) Company Statute is now in place, allowing the creation of European holding companies, joint subsidiaries or merged operations, theoretically able to work seamlessly in at least two member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OPPORTINITY for companies to buy efficient robots to tackle unpopular or dangerous jobs is increasing fast, with orders for industrial robots rising by 18% worldwide January-June this year, a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) report has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PIECES of metal have been found within sweet spicy biscuits in Belgium called speculoos, the European Commission’s food health rapid alert system (RASFF) has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S performance in reducing heart disease deaths could be much improved compared with many of its European Union (EU) partners, a new World Health Organisation heart disease atlas, has shown.

Dividing a country’s annual deaths from heart disease with its population, saturated fats and beer loving Britain had a comparative factor of 2, based on 120,530 deaths in 2002 amongst a population of 59 million.…