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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of the Dutch company Numico by France’s Danone. Because both companies are major suppliers of baby food and baby milk products, Brussels gave its competition approval on condition Danone offloads Numico’s baby milk and baby drink business in France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENVIRONMENTAL health officers may think there are a lot of smokers in the UK – in 2005, 24% of adults aged 16 or over in Britain smoked cigarettes, but spare a thought for officials in Greece – home of Europe’s keenest smokers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EU MINISTERS ALLOW DUTCH TO CHARGE CLOTHING CONTRACTORS TO FIGHT VAT FRAUD

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has authorised the Netherlands to derogate from standard VAT law for the ready-to-wear clothing industry by shifting the obligation to pay sales tax from clothing firm sub-contractors to their contractors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUM producers from French overseas departments (counties) have been given a 50% tax break on excise duty charged on sales within mainland France, stretching until December 2012. Most affected manufacturers are based on the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe and the Indian Ocean island of Réunion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have agreed to open to the public the November 6 and 7 meetings of a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) considering their 12-year diplomatic battle over the banana trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MANY European academics and experts in the study of commercial crime are more than happy to discuss the state of play in the sector in an informal way with outsiders; others may be a little more cautious. But all are likely to suggest ways to gain further assistance.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s decision to appoint ‘project co-ordinators’ to try to spark movement in four long-stalled cross-border energy projects in the European Union (EU) has drawn widespread cynicism from many in the industry. However, here and there, there is an admission that these high-level trouble-shooters might just get results where so many others have failed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Parliament officials have ordered an investigation into the discovery that two buildings the European Union (EU) assembly bought last year in Strasbourg are riddled with asbestos. However, administrators say that the asbestos is located in "a limited number of technical facility rooms" in its Winston Churchill bloc and the Salvador de Madariaga unit, and so "poses no public health risk".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUM producers from French overseas departments (counties) have been given a 50% tax break on excise duty charged on sales within mainland France, stretching until December 2012. The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved the derogation from standard EU excise rules, after French government claims that these rum manufacturers are vulnerable commercially.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUM producers from French overseas departments (counties) have been given a 50% tax break on excise duty charged on sales within mainland France, which will stretch until December 2012. The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved this as a derogation from standard EU excise rules, after French government claims that these rum manufacturers are vulnerable commercially.…