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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DUMPER trucks sufficiently roadworthy to use public roads should still be categorised as off-road dump trucks if that is the main purpose of their design, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. This comes in a customs case involving Dutch second-hand dumper truck importer BAS Trucks and Rotterdam customs office over classifying a MAN and a Scania vehicle, both with driver cabs and tippers for sand, stone and rubble.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

IRAN’S US$1 billion paint sector is going through a boom period: it is expected to grow by up to 20% this year on the back of strong decorative paint growth, an expanding automotive sector, and surging demand for specialised paints in the shipping and energy sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) VAT laws can be mightily complex, and offer plenty of opportunities for fraudsters revelling in regulations lacking in clarity and simplicity. Add high technology to the mix and carousel fraud was born. It’s a problem that has sparked tough police action and regulatory reform.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving towards supporting environment-friendly road transport, rather than dedicating resources to promoting public transport, a European Parliament debate organised by the Automobile and Society Forum, has heard. The European Commission is currently reviewing its 2001 transport white paper and its working papers have noted "disappointment" over the results of the EU’s pro-public transport policies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONE of the biggest problems faced by anti-money laundering forces in the European Union (EU) is that there are 25 (soon to be 27) different national law enforcement agencies and jurisdictions and most member states are reluctant to cede authority on law and order issues to central EU institutions.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN the years that followed the turn of the century, the Ukrainian economy was an optimistic place. Even two years ago there was a political certainty that encouraged investment from abroad and galvanised domestic paint companies to venture their capital on medium-term plans and encouraged the wave of acquisitions that snapped up several of Ukraine’s brand-name paint groups.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL cartel, inflating bitumen prices for road projects in the Netherlands, has been punished and broken by the European Commission. It fined 14 companies Euro 266,717 – among them British bitumen suppliers BP and Shell- for participating in a cartel setting the price of this crucial construction material.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

By many measures, the Dutch are the world leaders in paint and coatings which is not quite the same as saying they’re the largest suppliers or that Dutch paints are the best known though they do come at or near the top in both categories.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The Dutch are Europe’s top recyclers of household rubbish, recycling 65% of their total waste according to a new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Next come the Austrians at 59% and the Germans at 58% says the report though it notes that in parts of Germany some local areas charge per kilo of waste not recycled and the regional collection of recyclable materials goes up to more than 65 per cent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The European Investment Bank is to make loans of Euro 200 million each to two Belgian water companies: Aquafin, which manages wastewater treatment in Dutch-speaking Flanders, and SPGE (Société Publique de Gestion de l’Eau) which has similar responsibilities in French-speaking Wallonia.…