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Keith Nuthall
BACKGROUND

IN traditional ‘old economy’ sectors the malpractice of ‘passing off’ is usually pretty tough to achieve. Setting up a shop or restaurant that looks similar to an established chain can entail a lot of expense and could end in a lawsuit preventing any trading going ahead, and maybe leading to a compensation order.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has ordered that non-currency reproductions of Euro banknotes should in future be one-sided only, countermanding earlier rules that allowed double-sides copies to be made. The permitted size of specimen copes will remain at 125 per cent or larger or 75 per cent or smaller of the relevant notes and any material can be used for their reproduction.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has put forward a new single regulation to simplify and bring under one heading the 18 fertiliser directives in the EU which it says have become too complex and diverse. Brussels says the new regulation will ensure the free circulation of fertilisers by clarifying their characteristics, including composition, labelling and packaging.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
POTENTIALLY significant export and investment opportunities for British and other EU chemical companies in one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing markets have been opened up by an agreement revealed today (Wednesday) on the terms for China to join the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL mining companies are to find it easier to work in China, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STATE aid inquiry has been launched by the European Commission into concerns that restrictions on the payment of further state aid by the Spanish government to porcelain manufacturer Grupo de Empresas Álvarez, (GEA), in Vigo, Galicia, have been circumvented.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT of the cost of European Commission plans to introduce legislation to control the emission of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons has been released by Brussels. The study examines the benefits to human health of reducing concentrations of PAH’s in the air to meet different possible limit values, and theh economic costs involved in meeting them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed takeover of SSM Coal BV, of the Netherlands, by Germany’s Rheinbraun Brennstoff GmbH, concluding after an inquiry that the deal would not create competition problems in the EU petcoke market.

Rheinbraun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German RWE Group, distributes coal and other solid fuels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has until February 28 next year to implement a World Trade Organisation ruling that it should dismantle tanning industry controls on the export of raw and semi-tanned bovine hides, an WTO arbitrator has ruled.

The European Union – which brought the case in the first place – had called for arbitration after failing to reach agreement with Buenos Aires over the matter.…

Alan Osborne
THE INTRODUCTION of e-commerce into the European Union, already disappointingly slow, is further threatened by the failure so far of the 15 member countries to adopt the European Electronic Signature Directive, delegates to the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference at the QE2 centre in London have been told.…