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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) could encourage Czech brewery Bud?jovický Budvar to lodge a European Union (EU)-wide application for geographical indication protection. ECJ advocate general Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer said a previous bilateral agreement between Austria and the former Czechoslovakia saying beers called ‘Bud’ must be Czech, may offer no protection against rival Anheuser-Busch Inbev.…

BY JAMES FULLER

THE TWIN island republic of Trinidad & Tobago is many people’s idea of a tropical idyll but Sunita Kissoon, senior nurse/midwife at the Gulf View Medical Centre in San Fernando, says medical care in her country is fundamentally lacking when compared to the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) appears to be encouraging Czech brewery Bud?jovický Budvar to lodge a European Union (EU)-wide application for geographical indication protection for their beer. In a preliminary ruling, ECJ advocate general Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer said a previous bilateral agreement between Austria and the former Czechoslovakia which said beers called ‘Bud’ must be Czech may offer no protection, unless Budvar also applied for EU-wide protection: "A name…which has not been notified to the Commission cannot obtain protection from one or more [EU] member states independently, and is unprotected."…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; ANDREW CAVE, in Oxford; and SYMON ROSS, in Belfast

IT is a tough time in the European petrol retail market at present. High prices last year have been followed by a global recession. It is no wonder fuel sales are depressed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CZECH presidency of the European Union (EU) has said it will redouble its aims to push ahead with planned energy reforms to strengthen the EU’s ability to withstand the recurrence of a crisis such as the recent Russia-Ukraine gas row.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a Czech regional government subsidy of Euro 11.15 million for improving facilities at the Czech Republic’s Ostrava airport, serving the country’s third largest city. The money will be spent until 2013, helping fund the acquisition of new boarding bridges, self-propelled aircraft boarding stairs, a tractor for moving aircrafts, a self-propelled baggage conveyer and a de-icing unit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it wants Euro 3.5 billion of the general European Union (EU) economic recovery plan it announced in November spent on energy investment. It has proposed spending Euro 1.75 billion on gas and electricity interconnection projects; Euro 500 million on offshore wind power; and Euro 1.25 billion on carbon capture and storage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer safety alert service RAPEX has reported the withdrawal from sale in Belgium of a Democratic Republic of the Congo-made whitening cream – Topclaire Plus. Its use of hydroquinone breaks the EU cosmetics directive. RAPEX has also reported a withdrawal from sale in Ireland of China-made ‘GIRLZ’ children’s cosmetics sets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) judges have erected a barrier impeding the plans of US brewer Anheuser-Busch to trademark the word ‘Bud’ across in all EU member states. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Court of First Instance has underlined the right of Anheuser’s Czech rival Bud?jovický…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MAXIMUM amount of duty-free or duty-paid tobacco that can be brought into the European Union (EU) from a non-EU country without paying EU excise duty can now be reduced to just 40 cigarettes. That is an option now offered to member states, which can maintain the previous 200 cigarette limit if they choose.…