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Keith Nuthall
LISTED companies within the European Union (EU) may escape plans to force their appointment of mandatory audit committees that oversee their accounts, after the idea was rejected by MEPs. The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has approved amendments that would abolish this requirement, after accepting arguments pushed by Dutch Christian Democrat MEP Lambert Doorn.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal investigation into a planned Euro 7.425 million-subsidy package planned by the Dutch government into its country’s malt sector. The money would help establish a malt production plant in Eemshaven, in the Netherlands’ roningen province.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ACCORDING to global consumption figures, Israel is the world capital of teenage soft drink demand, with hot weather combined with a competitive market to create something of a utopia for drinks companies. An international survey of soft drinks consumption published by the Economist by 15 year olds of both sexes suggests that Israel has the world’s biggest teenage consumers of carbonated and still drinks, colas, sodas, juices and the like on a per capita basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended the abolition of a European Union (EU) rule insisting that feed manufacturers disclose on demand to their customers their exact ingredient formulae. Antonio Tizzano said that this element of directive 2002/2/EC on compound feeding-stuffs would cause “serious prejudice” to manufacturers’ businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out a bid by Dutch livestock producers for restrictions to be imposed on national health authorities over their tactics to fight foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks. The plaintiffs had claimed that European Union (EU) directive 85/511 imposed limits on the “power to order the slaughter of animals belonging to a holding adjacent to or within a specific radius of a holding containing infected animals”.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SINGAPORE’S economy is rejuvenating after the horrors of early 2004 when the threat of terrorism (both internationally and closer to home in South East Asia), and then the SARS virus hit the city state hard, shrinking demand for construction and hence the amount of money to be made by the coatings sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN consortium claims to have successfully developed a mobile and self-erecting crane, “to create a single crane that can do the work of five”. The six participating Belgian, German, Italian and Dutch companies – linked under the banner of European research network Eureka – say the crane “features an anti-sway device which makes it safer as well as more efficient”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS government has shown how rich countries can fulfil their Kyoto Protocol commitments by promoting the overseas development of efficient green energy production, claimed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The Dutch are funding a Euro 5 million conversion of a Bulgarian paper mill from generating energy via oil and gas to biomass via the EBRD-managed Euro 32 million Netherlands Emissions Reduction Co-operation Fund.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…