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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is developing standard models for the following-up of divestiture commitments and trustee mandates in merger cases where companies promise to sell interests to get a deal cleared by Brussels competition authorities.

The Commission said that the use of the models, which are based on the 12 years of experience since the EU’s merger regulation was first implemented, would relieve merging companies and its officials of heavy administrative demands during the so-called remedies stage in merger review procedures, where the timing of sell-offs is crucial.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s industry committee has approved a European Commission proposal that the European Union and Euratom should sign up to the International Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been formally criticised by the European Ombudsman, over its handling and investigation of a complaint against the Greek government by a campaigner opposing the construction of a biological treatment plant and sewerage system in a pretty coastal tourist town.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed plans to lend St Petersburg’s Lenenergo Euro 40 million to finance the completion of a power plant project the bank wants to use as a model for similar integrated heat and power utilities across Russia.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its Member States will have to improve their efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases if they want to meet their targets under the Kyoto Protocol, a European Environment Agency report has claimed. The EU is committed to cutting its combined emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to an average of eight per cent below 1990 levels in 2008 -2012.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE of Britain’s best-known food safety experts, Deirdre Hutton, has been appointed to the board of the newly formed European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Ms Hutton, who is chairman of the National Consumer Council, led a recent DTI panel on the Food Chain and Crops for Industry and was a member of the government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (the Curry report).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on meat, dairy products and molluscs as part of a new package of hygiene measures that are designed to step up food safety. These would insist upon a scientific approach to meat inspection, which Brussels said would protect consumers from hazards linked to the consumption of meat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is claiming that it spent Euro 9 billion in 2001 on projects boosting the environment and the quality of life, within and outside the European Union. Loans for water and sewerage schemes totalled Euro 946 million, for improving air quality Euro 846 million, energy saving Euro 790 million and energy substitution Euro 723 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WIDERANGING public consultation on the use of the European Union’s planned satellite-based environmental monitoring system (GMES) has been launched. The European Commission will be staging a series of open meetings on the system, operational by 2008. Advice culled from these forums will be included in a report to be published next year.…

Keith Nuthall
A STAY of execution has been granted to American textile exporters, after the European Union Council of Ministers decided it would postpone the implementation of a first round of protective duties, erected in retaliation to the US’ controversial safeguard duties on steel.…