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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH poultry company has created an important legal precedent forcing national authorities in the European Union (EU) to reconsider administrative decisions if they are subsequently shown to break EU law. Kühne & Heitz had gone to court to secure contested export refunds from the Netherlands Commodity Board for Poultry and Eggs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has performed a U-turn and has asked European Union (EU) ministers to extend for two years a pilot scheme allowing the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg governments to continue levying reduced VAT rates (of six per cent) on small cycle repair services.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
A UNIQUE new ’emergency alert’ system has been made available following a successful trial at Europe’s fourth largest airport Schiphol, in Amsterdam.

Dutch software company Netpresenter, said its ‘Emergency Alert Server’ system was designed to override PCs and other visual displays to provide critical emergency messages and information.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has performed a U-turn and has asked European Union (EU) ministers to extend for two years a pilot scheme allowing the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg governments levy reduced VAT rates (of six per cent) on shoe and leather goods repair services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a research programme stretching over the next three year at the EU’s joint research centre high flux reactor, at Petten, in the Netherlands. Funded largely by the Dutch government, the Euro 30.6 million series of projects includes studies on improving reactor safety, the development of medical isotopes, fusion, waste management and developing nuclear fuel helping to eliminate weapon grade plutonium, plus basic research and training work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that any national ban on the Internet sale of non-prescription medicines would break European Union freedom of business laws. It has intervened in a bid by German pharmacies association Deutsche Apothekerverband to stop the operation of Dutch pharmacy DocMorris, which from June 2000 has sold medicines on the web to customers in Germany and the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) and the Organisation of American States have struck a deal, leading them to cooperate in the publicising of health and safety best practice that can be applied on both sides of the Atlantic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has secured the help of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to reduce its greenhouse gas emission targets by investing in eastern European projects aimed at fighting global warming. The bank and the Dutch government are creating a carbon fund, which will draw on Euro 32 million of Netherlands’ funds.…