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BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London; LUCY JONES, in Dallas; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; and KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN the spate of oil tanker accidents in recent years involving substantial pollution of seas and coastlines around the world, it is no surprise that international organisations have weighed in with regulatory controls and guidelines on shipping standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR company able to create integrated digital navigation maps and portable navigation devices should be formed, following the approval of a Dutch merger deal by the European Commission. It has green-lighted the acquisition by the Netherlands’ device manufacturer Tom Tom of co-patriots Tele Atlas, which makes navigable digital maps covering Europe and north America.…

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.…