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BY KEITH NUTHALL

LEGAL experts are carefully studying the decision on Monday (18-12) of the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers that Austria should continue its national bans on two generically modified maize varieties. The European Commission, which wanted the bans abolished, is considering its options, because the maize – Zea Mays L.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

*Nurses who wish to join the US forces wherever these are based MUST be a US citizen. Nurses working in the UK who hold US citizenship and who are interested in joining the US Army Nurse Corps can find details of career path and qualifications at: http://armynursecorps.amedd.army.mil…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STEEL sectors of Poland and the Czech Republic will be under a microscope wielded by the European Commission in 2007, when Brussels decides whether state aid pumped into these industries was well spent or should be paid back.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has declared it will not give up on its plans to update minimum alcohol excise duty rates in the European Union (EU), despite the EU Council of Ministers failing to agree the changes yesterday (Tues).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN and other European Union (EU) countries which have yet to adopt the Euro are to be covered by a newly extended EU programme on fighting counterfeiting of Europe’s single currency. The EU Council of Ministers has approved a renewed ‘Pericles’ programme, which will spend Euro 1 million a year from 2007 to 2013.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has announced plans to wean Armenia off nuclear energy and onto renewables, rather than funding replacements for its ageing Soviet-era reactors. One unit at the former Soviet republic’s Metsamor plant currently supplies 40% of the country’s energy; a twin unit has been mothballed since a 1988 earthquake shook the power station, 75 km south of the epicentre.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE LATEST report on the fight against money laundering in Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) is a working document issued in November this year from the staff of the European Commission and it makes depressing reading. Reviewing the past year the report finds that "limited progress" has been made in this sector, at least partly because of a lack of qualified staff and because existing legislation is "inadequate".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover of Czech fuel payment management services company CCS ?eská spole?nost pro platební karty a.s. (CCS) by a US company in the same business – FleetCor Technologies Inc. The US firm currently operates in north America and in Britain through subsidiary CH Jones Holding Ltd; CCS in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

IRAN’S US$1 billion paint sector is going through a boom period: it is expected to grow by up to 20% this year on the back of strong decorative paint growth, an expanding automotive sector, and surging demand for specialised paints in the shipping and energy sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 450 million on upgrading European Union (EU) vineyard production during 2006-7, helping EU wine producers fend off New World competitors. The money will go on varietal conversion, relocating vineyards and improving vineyard management, although not routine replanting.…