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BY MARK ROWE
IT is difficult to separate the present-day Czech paint industry from the industrial heritage of the country. While the rest of the world made jokes about Skoda cars during the Communist era, the Czechs fumed as they saw a once great engineering industry reduced to a laughing stock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission says “further efforts are still needed” to guarantee the future of privatised Polish steel producer Polskie Huty Stali. Assessing the Poland’s and the Czech Republic’s steel industries, it said “the Polish industry continues to show delays, sometimes significant, especially in relation to investments, which (for) some companies could affect their future viability (in) a significant market slowdown”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has adopted delaying tactics in its opposition to a proposed European Union (EU) directive establishing welfare rules for broiler chickens, calling for additional studies into the legislation. It asked the EU Council of Ministers to refer a European Commission impact study on the directive to the council’s special agriculture committee.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report has found many online pharmacies declaring they are based in Canada, selling cheap drugs under local liberal medicine sales laws, are actually based in the US or outside North America, in Vietnam and the Czech Republic, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUPERVISION of embattled European Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF may increase after a highly critical report from the Court of Auditors – the EU’s financial watchdog. The court accused OLAF of failing to ensure its inquiries followed the law, noting: “There is no independent check on the legality of actions undertaken…and that the fundamental rights of persons under investigation are respected”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUPERVISION of embattled European Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF may increase after a highly critical report from the Court of Auditors – the EU’s financial watchdog. The court accused OLAF of failing to ensure its inquiries followed the law, noting: “There is no independent check on the legality of actions undertaken…and that the fundamental rights of persons under investigation are respected”.…

BY MARK ROWE
CAN insurers help reduce risk by funding initiatives for the emergency services? Companies are increasingly looking at how they can support emergency services and, thereby, lessen the impact of insurance claims. The thinking is by helping to improve the efficiency of emergency services, the impact of natural and manmade disasters, including terrorism, can be mitigated in terms of people making insurance claims.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS, Greece and Poland have come under legal pressure from the European Commission to reform their car taxation rules so that it is easier to move vehicles around the European Union (EU). It has sent their governments formal requests to reform their systems, which – if ignored – could lead to a referral to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN institutions as riddled with financial crime and mismanagement as the European Union (EU), an in-house anti-fraud unit was always going to have a tough time. But EU fraud-busters OLAF seem to be making a bad fist out of a dodgy job.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL action is being taken by the European Commission to force Sweden, Austria and the Czech Republic to implement European Union (EU) accounting rules regarding public spending. Brussels is particularly vexed with Sweden, sending it a formal complaint it has flouted a 2004 European Court of Justice (ECJ) order to properly implement directive 2000/52/EC on transparent relations between governments and other public bodies.…