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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to impose 11.3 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on imports from Japan of internal gear hubs for bicycles, notably those from Shimano Inc. The formal proposal for approval by EU ministers follows an earlier decision to erect provisional anti-dumping duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AVIATION tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, have led to the European Union developing a wide-range of air security regulations and policies, with ministers agreeing to fast-track their passage onto the EU statute book.

Meeting in Luxemburg, the Council of Ministers for transport granted political approval to a hastily drawn-up proposed regulation on aviation security.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is consulting the electronics industry on an ecological performance directive, which would force electrical companies to minimise the impact of their processes on the environment.

Brussels’ draft law on the impact of electrical and electronic equipment would order companies to carry out an assessment of their manufacturing systems and would also tell them to “strive to prevent pollution” in the design, distribution and operation of a product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched its long awaited cross-border out-of-court disputes settlement system, which involves each Member State, (plus Iceland and Norway), setting up a central national contact point, where consumers can get information and assistance in fighting their cases.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
JUST when it appeared Christmas marketing was reaching a nadir, Woolworth is being accused of stooping to an all time low, by insisting the reason for selling new Mother Christmas outfits alongside Father Christmas attire was to satisfy EU gender equality regulations, and not to extract more money from consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The decision was given impetus by a flurry of emergency meetings held in the wake of the disasters. In an extraordinary European Council in Brussels, the highest decision making body in the EU, presidents and prime ministers told the EU Council of Ministers for transport and for justice and home affairs to press ahead with pan-European security reforms “as a matter of urgency.”…

Keith Nuthall
A SURVEY of Wastes Spread on Land produced by the European Commission has supported moves to improve the quality of sludge produced by the textile industry, through the replacement of chemical products, such as chromium and copper salts, by products with a lower environmental impact.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been ordered to conclude wide-ranging research agreements on nuclear energy with the Russian Federation, focusing on general safety within the industry and fusion power generation. Brussels has also been told by EU ministers to strike a deal with Kazakhstan on fusion research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted the foot and mouth disease inspired ban on exports of pigmeat from parts of the UK, namely most of Scotland, bar Dumfries and Galloway, eastern England, and parts of north Wales. The ban for Northern Ireland was lifted in June.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A STREAMLINED system for removing faulty non-food items from shops across the European Union, where goods have been shown to be a risk to consumers, is to be set up, following the agreement of reforms to the EU general product safety directive.…