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Keith Nuthall
TOP officials at the European Union’s Council of Ministers headquarters in Brussels will this month be studying the text of the European Commisson’s proposed regulation of aviation security that was drawn up in the wake of the terrorist tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has cleared the way for German judges to order cosmetics giant Hans Schwarzkopf GmbH to label its hair dyes with health warnings about chemical ingredients that may be harmful to human health.

At present, Schwarzkopf includes these warnings for its Igora Royal range only on an enclosed leaflet, with its outer packaging and tube being printed with the note: “For commercial use only.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has developed what appears to be the rather unlikely plan to lend US$25 million to a South Korean-owned shipbuilding firm, in a bid to increase its industrial capacity. Although the proposed loan would actually be spent on boosting Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s operations in Mangalia, a Black Sea coast town in Romania, near the Bulgarian border, the bank is said to be aware of the political sensitivities.…

Keith Nuthall
THE THREE businessmen found guilty of colluding in an illegal share-fixing operation during the Guinness takeover of Distillers in 1980’s have failed to persuade the European Court of Human Rights to order the British government to meet a legal expenses claim of Pounds 1.26 million, even though they scored a victory in the case.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dashed the hopes of Sicilian wine-growers awaiting compensation from the Italian government for unused replanting rights. The island’s regional government had planned to pay some two billion Lire, (about Euro 1 million), to the growers, whose rights had become worthless as a result of drought in 1988-1990.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally issued an awaited regulation that will require the labels of fish and fish products to contain more detailed information to better inform consumers and help officials police the Common Fisheries Policy.

Under the new rules, from 1 January 2002, all fish products on sale at retailers will have to be labelled with the following information:

*The commercial name of the species, with the common term used in each Member State being used for local sales;

*The production method of the fish, being wild, farmed or cultivated in fresh water or at sea;

*The area where the fish was caught.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WASTE produced by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries should not be spread on land without a detailed evaluation of its contents and properly qualified advice of its potential effect on the environment, a report from the European Commission has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The EU’s financial watchdog, European Court of Auditors, has concluded in a special report that the Commission’s BSE strategy was “basically sound, but its effectiveness has been severely limited “because of institutional procedures and poor implementation of existing legislation by most Member States.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN comes fourth in an international league of 17 developed countries which ranks them according to their achievements, resources and capacity for future development in the field of innovation, the European Commission said today Monday. Sweden comes top followed by the US and Finland.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORT tariffs payable on fish products exported to China are to be cut, following the striking of an international deal allowing Beijing to join the World Trade Organisation. Officials at the European Commission’s directorate general for trade say that all fish exports to China will benefit from lower tariffs, though the reduction is not as great as for industrial goods.…