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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) compliance panel has formally rejected the European Union’s (EU) discriminatory trade regime favouring imports of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those from Latin America. It said the EU 2005 "duty-free tariff quota for bananas originating in ACP countries… failed to implement the…rulings" of the WTO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN auto industry – long the continent’s odd man out in terms of competition law – may have to face a new laissez faire legal regime that would ban formal links between manufacturers, dealers and repairers.

This warning is clear in a report released yesterday (May 28) by the European Commission on how the European Union’s (EU) ‘block exemption’ system, protecting the EU auto industry from the full force of European competition law, has been working.…

By Keith Nuthall

The potential riches that can be gained by universities spinning off successful science units into commercial operations has been made clear by a deal involving Britain’s University of Surrey and Airbus-maker EADS Astrium.

It has acquired the university’s Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) for an estimated GBPounds 50 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LOW Countries markets of Belgium and the Netherlands are a good place to take Europe’s converting industry temperature as it rides the recession this year. There is no denying that business is down in this key European region, but there are certainly no signs of melt-down and converters in this country appear well positioned to exploit an economic recovery, when it comes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled basic packaging logo designs (for instance Adidas’ three stripes) can be protected legally by their owners, only where such symbols do not indicate a general category of goods. Judges said in a case involving German sportswear maker Adidas and Dutch rivals Marca Mode, C&A, H&M and Vendex that Adidas’ three stripes had no obvious link to sportswear and so could be protected: its rivals use two stripes logos.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover over Denmark baby clothes retailer BabySam by Netherlands-based AAC Capital Partners, and a Danish arm of the Polaris equity fund – Polaris Private Equity.

Regulatory approval will kickstart AAC-Polaris plans to turn BabySam into "the Nordic region’s leading integrated baby retail chain", by transforming "the chain of independent shops by merging 12 existing legal entities," said AAC.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

INHALING diesel exhaust impairs the brain’s processing of information according to a study from Zuyd University, the Netherlands. Participants inhaled diesel exhaust similar to that breathed by roadside or garage workers during 30 minutes. Their minds displayed stress responses recorded on an electroencephalograph (EEG) whilst controls breathing clean air registered normal brain activity.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

OFF the coast of Guyana and Surinam, north of Brazil, lie what may be some of the world’s largest untapped oil reserves. They have remained unexplored for years, thanks to a maritime border dispute between the two South American countries, the former an ex-British colony, and the latter once run by the Dutch.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, and SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies

AS with much of life today, the future of gambling is closely tied to the Internet, and this development of an international industry based on instant cross-border cash flows has raised understandable concerns about money laundering.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OF all the European Union’s (EU) flagship energy projects, maybe none is more central to the goal of ensuring security of supply and none more fraught with political and technical complexity than the proposed Nabucco pipeline designed to bring natural gas from the Caspian region, the Middle East and Egypt into Austria and then on to consumers in western Europe.…