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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has initialled new fishing access deals with two African island nations: São Tomé e Principe, off west Africa, and Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. The Madagascan deal will last six years from January 2007, and exclusively covers tuna.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved without imposing conditions the proposed acquisition of the inks and adhesive resins business of Dutch company Akzo Nobel by the USA’s Hexion, part of the Apollo Group. This follows a Commission inquiry focusing on potential damage to competition in supplies of printing ink industry resins, especially rosin resins.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WITH the approval in May of two key regulations covering respectively nutrition and health claims and the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods the EU has taken an important step forward in setting the legal framework for the food industry in Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE COMMERICAL introduction of the first synthetic fuels scheduled for later this year in Europe will signify the appearance of a possible new solution to growing concerns over the security, diversity and environmental acceptability of energy supply for local authorities and other major road transport users.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is negotiating guaranteed 2006/7 cane sugar prices for deliveries from India plus the African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) block of countries: probably Euro 631.90/tonne for white sugar and Euro 496.80/tonne for raw sugar.

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BY MONICA DOBIE

DUTCH coatings giant Akzo Nobel NV has taken over Canadian paintmaker Sico Inc. for approximately CDN$284 million.

Akzo based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will acquire all of Sico’s outstanding common shares at a cash price of CDN$20 per share and will also offer to buy Sico’s class B preferred shares for CDN$3.8 million in total.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

HERBAL cigarettes should attract excise duty, even if they contain no tobacco and are marketed as an aid for quitting smoking, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Dutch herbal cigarette wholesaler A.C.Smits-Koolhoven had claimed his products should be exempt from excise duty under EU directive 95/59/EC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is negotiating guaranteed 2006/7 cane sugar prices for deliveries from India plus the African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) block of countries. In probably the last such talks before the EU sugar regime is reformed, a decision is expected May 1, and will probably be Euro 631.90/tonne for white sugar and Euro 496.80/tonne for raw sugar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SPECIAL European Parliament hearing on European Union (EU) energy liberalisation has heard concerns that cross-border supplies could actually raise prices in European countries currently enjoying cheap bills. The parliament’s industry, research and energy committee was told by Finnish green-left MEP Esco Seppänen that consumers in countries where energy prices have been low because of cheap nuclear and hydro power could rise: "We don’t want to have German or Dutch prices in Finland and our consumers don’t want to suffer because of the liberalisation of energy markets," he said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MASS production of a vaccine to fight the H5N1 bird flu strain in humans could begin within a year, after pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline launched clinical trials in Germany and Belgium.

The company is testing two vaccines: the first would be targeted at fighting a pandemic after an outbreak; the second aimed at advance inoculations.…