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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.…

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
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
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 ALAN OSBORN
THE CARMEUSE Group of Liege, Belgium, one of the world’s largest producers of lime, is to strengthen its presence in eastern Europe with a major investment in Romania that is being supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).…

BY MARK ROWE
AT first sight they would appear to be uneasy bedfellows. On the one hand, English Heritage, the British government’s advisory body with responsibility for the care and maintenance of the country’s historic environment; on the other, the Marxist-led government of the Indian state of West Bengal.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Union (EU) Commissioner for research Janez Potocnik has declared he would be prepared to build an ITER-scale fusion reactor at Cadarache, France, if there is no international agreement on where to build the prototype. In answers to a European Parliament questionnaire, he said the EU “could consider launching the construction of the ITER at Cadarache…with those of its partners willing to be involved”, although only at the “very last resort”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that petrol station operators must take responsibility for oil and petrol leaks, unless they can demonstrate that the pollution is the fault of the oil company supplying their fuel. Its ruling, which is a precedent across the European Union (EU), came in a case involving Belgium’s Brussels capital region and Texaco.…