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IRELAND’S Celtic Tiger economy may have lost a little of its bounce recently, with double-digit annual growth figures no longer predicted. However, the beast is still in fine fettle, as a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) observer report notes: "The economy has bounced back.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general Francis Jacobs has advised that where consumers buy excised goods, including tobacco and alcohol, in a foreign European Union (EU) country, and arrange for them to be transported to their home EU state, only the excise duty originally paid is due.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL, in Sint Maarten and Anguilla

DOLPHINARIUMS are an increasingly sought after once in a lifetime experience but these marine amusement parks remain controversial. Is it about big business exploiting these highly intelligent creatures for fat profits or do they provide people with an intimate experience that allows them to better understand them?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DUTCH scientists have shown that bird flu vaccines could effectively halt the disease’s spread, as well as providing protection to individual vaccinated poultry. Tests carried out by the Central Institute for Animal Disease Control in Leystad, and Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands showed that two weeks after vaccination, two vaccines could "completely block the spread of the disease".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Akzo Nobel, BASF and UCB Euro 66.34 million for operating between 1992-8 a cartel for choline chloride (CORRECT SPELLING) cartel (poultry and pig feed additive vitamin B4). These Dutch, German and Belgium chemical companies set European prices and market shares.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH government has been told by the European Court of Justice to scrap rules insisting exporters from other European Union (EU) member countries wanting to sell foodstuffs with additional vitamins or mineral salts first prove they meet a “nutritional need” and do not risk public health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CURRENT Dutch presidency of the EU is surveying food-related EU research to inform at meeting of senior officials next February 2005, where governments will discuss boosting cooperation within the EU’s Standing Committee for Agricultural Research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GRANTS worth Euro 1.35 million have been awarded by the Dutch government to fund two new research centres carrying out multidisciplinary studies into the prevention, management and treatment of infectious diseases in the Netherlands and developing countries. The centres will be virtual institutions, recruiting researchers from around the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Dutch veal and calf producer Van Drie of calf-feed specialist Schils, also of the Netherlands, which focuses on dry dairy feed calf-milk replacers. Although Brussels accepted the merged company would command influence in European feed and slaughtering markets, it concluded there was sufficient competition to allow the take-over.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Akzo Nobel, BASF and UCB Euro 66.34 million for operating between 1992-8 a cartel for choline chloride (CORRECT SPELLING) cartel (poultry and pig feed additive vitamin B4). These Dutch, German and Belgium chemical companies set European prices and market shares with the USA’s DuCoa and Canada’s Chinook, escaping fines by leaving the cartel.…