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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has concluded that the water consumption of the tanning and leather industry could be reduced by as much as 90 per cent. The European Commission is now advising the industry to further reduce their water consumption through internal recycling.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN footwear industry has been encouraged to take advantage of the new Euro 16.2 billion European Union Sixth Framework Programme for research, to develop high added value products and exploit new information technologies in a bid to defend its hard-pressed position on world markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LITHUANIAN government has agreed to close its Soviet-era nuclear plant at Ignalina after the European Union said it would help fund decommissioning. Although the amount of subsidy has yet to be agreed, the aid promise prompted Vilnius to announce the closure of unit 1 before 2005 and unit 2 by 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADEMARK owners can protect their brands in court when other traders sell goods using the mark, even when they admit publicly that their products are not ‘official’ and are in effect promoting a brand, a European Court of Justice advocate general has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ruled that the British government is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by blocking men from receiving both a Widow’s Payment and a Widowed Mother’s Allowance.

Its ruling followed a case brought by Kevin Willis, of Bristol, who was awarded Pounds 25,000 in damages and Pounds 12,500 costs and expenses.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has ordered Germany to stop blocking the

sale of the Austrian drink Original Schwedenbitter by claiming it to be a

medicinal product which requires special authorisation.

Original Schwedenbitter is sold in Austria without restriction as a

herb-based alcoholic beverage but is traditionally bought in Germany as a

cure for several illnesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVERSING its earlier position, the European Commission has agreed that the German grid feed-in laws on the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources and from combined heat and power do not constitute state aid, that Brussels could, in theory, ban.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Galileo global positioning project is being further delayed, this time because Member States are competing to inject more money into the satellite system, to lay claim to greater shares of resulting contracts. Until a recent deal over costs, national governments had been arguing about how to control Galileo’s budget.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has intervened in the European Commission’s case against Japan Tobacco – owners of RJ Reynolds – in New York by supporting Brussels’ stance that it is entitled to bring a legal action against the company, on behalf of the whole EU.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
R.J.REYNOLDS Co. has been fined US$20 million in a San Diego court, for violating the 1998 US Master Settlement Agreement by placing tobacco advertisements in magazines with a large percentage of readers aged 12 to17. San Diego Superior Court Judge Ronald S.…