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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CHANGE in methodology calculating anti-dumping duties levied on a South Korean fibre manufacturer has led to these tariffs being struck down at the European Court of Justice. Its Court of First Instance has ruled the European Commission and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers broke EU anti-dumping procedures by switching mathematical formulae between the ‘input’ to the ‘residual’ method when assessing whether Huvis Corp was dumping cut-priced polyester staple fibres on EU markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched two months of consultation with utilities and other energy players about the major renewable energy and climate change proposals it made in March. Responses to a seven question questionnaire will feed into debates and votes that will be staged on this package within European Union (EU) institutions this year.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

MAJOR European car manufacturers are joining forces to road test new automobile intelligent and safety technology under real conditions. Ford, BMW, Fiat, Daimler, Volkswagen and MAN, along with intelligent safety equipment public-private partnership Ertico, started a three-year field operational test programme this May on 1,500 vehicles.…

BY MARVIN HOKSTAM

WHEN aviation executives gathered in Sint Maarten for the eighth Airports Conference of the Americas (July 20-22, 2008), not even the cosy Caribbean atmosphere could change their gloomy disposition on their industry. With rising fuel costs, out-of-control energy bills, airline capacity shortages and the effects of terrorism’s relentless onslaught in travel, aviation has no shortage of challenges; the officials acknowledged that there is no quick fix to their problems, so their discussions centred on alternatives.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FEW people would challenge the European Commission’s assertion earlier this year that, in practice, market integration in the gas market in the European Union (EU) "is still far from a success."

In its report Progress in Creating the Internal Gas and Electricity Market published in April, Brussels said that major barriers to the efficient functioning of the market still existed largely because of "insufficient implementation of European legislation."…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CHILDREN may have to hurry up to solicit enough signatures and funny drawings to cover their casts following a serious bone fracture in future; American scientists have shown that recovery from bone breaks can be significantly sped up – strangely – by taking out the damaged bone’s marrow.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

As a demonstration of how the top higher education people from across the world can meet, debate, agree and disagree without ever losing sight of their common goals as academic leaders you would find it hard to better the 4-yearly conference of the UNESCO-based International Association of Universities (IAU).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ANGLO-Dutch oil giant Shell is not in much doubt that hydrogen is one of the fuels of the future, if not the fuel of the future. Barely a month ago, in June, Duncan Macleod, (NOTE: SPELLING IS CORRECT) global vice president of Shell Hydrogen, told an clean technology conference in the US that Shell had restructured its organisation "to prepare for hydrogen’s transition into the mainstream, bringing it into our downstream fuels portfolio, alongside gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG – as well as biofuels and GTL."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD manufacturers changing the particle size of an additive will have to secure a fresh market authorisation for European Union (EU) sales under a newly approved assessment system. This has been written into four regulations on additives, flavourings and enzymes, which have been approved by the European Parliament following talks with the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRESH market authorisations for European Union (EU) sales will be needed by food manufacturers changing the particle size of an additive in future under a newly approved assessment system. This has been written into four EU regulations on additives, flavourings and enzymes, which have been approved by the European Parliament following talks with the EU Council of Ministers.…