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BY JONATHAN THOMSON
A UNIQUE new ’emergency alert’ system has been made available following a successful trial at Europe’s fourth largest airport Schiphol, in Amsterdam.

Dutch software company Netpresenter, said its ‘Emergency Alert Server’ system was designed to override PCs and other visual displays to provide critical emergency messages and information.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a research programme stretching over the next three year at the EU’s joint research centre high flux reactor, at Petten, in the Netherlands. Funded largely by the Dutch government, the Euro 30.6 million series of projects includes studies on improving reactor safety, the development of medical isotopes, fusion, waste management and developing nuclear fuel helping to eliminate weapon grade plutonium, plus basic research and training work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has secured the help of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to reduce its greenhouse gas emission targets by investing in eastern European projects aimed at fighting global warming. The bank and the Dutch government are creating a carbon fund, which will draw on Euro 32 million of Netherlands’ funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission competition officials are examining whether the German, Dutch and Belgian governments are spending too much public money on a Euro 200 million chemical gas pipeline project linking Rotterdam, Antwerp and Germany. The carbon steel pipeline will carry industrial gases such as propylene, avoiding the need for them to be carried by road or inland waterway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Union scientific committee has opposed a ban imposed by the Dutch government on copper-based anti-fouling coatings being applied to pleasure boats sailed in the Netherlands, opening the way for possible legal action by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Union scientific committee has opposed a ban imposed by the Dutch government on copper-based anti-fouling coatings being applied to pleasure boats sailed in the Netherlands, opening the way for possible legal action by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given competition clearance to the takeover by Volkswagen’s financial arm of a stake in the Dutch car leasing company Pon Financial Services. The deal will lead to the joint control of Pon with VW importer in the Netherlands Pon Holdings BV.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ACQUISITION of Greek tobacco company Papastratos by the Dutch subsidiary of Philip Morris has been approved by the European Commission, which can concluded that the deal is not anti-competitive, even in Greece. Even though Brussels accepted Philip Morris would become the national market leader as a result, its concerns were eased by the fact that its existing brands are not in the same price segment as Papastratos’s lines, such as Assos and President.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commissioner has broken a Brussels taboo akin to the Pope calling for quickie divorces and free contraception, he has called on the European Commission to propose fewer regulations. Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch internal market Commissioner told a Netherlands newspaper NRC Handelsblad that tougher safeguards should be written into the new European Union (EU) constitution to curb his own institution’s “tendency to over regulate”.…