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Keith Nuthall
A PREMIUM paid to companies stripping car wrecks in the Netherlands, so that their parts can be re-used or recycled, is being investigated by the European Commission, which claims that the rates could be so high, that they would be an illegal subsidy, outlawed by European Union law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has set itself on a collision course with the European Commission, by amending the cosmetics directive to ban the sale within the EU of products tested on animals.

In a vote on plans by the Commission to ban animal testing within the EU, while allowing the sale of imported cosmetics that have been produced with such tests, MEP’s voted for a reinstatement of a ban that was agreed in 1993, but has never been implemented.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union steering group has been launched to help protecting the European single currency, the Euro, against counterfeiting. It includes representatives of the Commission, the ECB and Europol. It will try to promote co-ordination between these bodies by overseeing their anti-counterfeiting work, developing a common strategy and proposing a series of concrete priority measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THIRD generation mobile service providers should be encouraged to share infrastructure whilst they exploit their often expensively won licences, according to the Communication from the European Commission, called The Introduction of Third Generation Mobile Communications in the European Union: State of Play and the Way Forward.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a strong attack on the Council of Europe’s draft convention on cybercrime, a political move that could lead to delays in its adoption and which will almost certainly damage its reputation.

In a paper using unusually strong language for diplomatic circles, the EU’s Working Party of Data Protection accuses the draft of being “too vague and confusing” and of threatening “fundamental rights and freedoms.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHILIP Morris and EU’s Altadis, (formerly Spain’s Tabacalera and France’s Seita), have loosened a licensing agreement granting the European company the right to produce L&M and Marlboro cigarettes in Spain. Following pressure from the European Commission, Philip Morris will now have the right to manufacture the brands itself outside Spain and export them there.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is moving towards compulsory introduction of a procedure under which a driver may be traced from a scrap of paint left behind by a car at the scene of a crime or a hit-and-run accident.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from the European Commission has estimated that the ban on meat and bone meal protein being used for animal feed within the European Union is likely to create a demand for imports of 1 to 1.5 million tonnes of soya meal, an increase of five per cent over existing levels.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PROPOSED new European legislation that would make it compulsory for motor vehicle registration documents to carry an adjective and alphanumeric code specifying the colour of the original paint is not expected to cause major problems in the UK paint or motor industries.…

KEITH NUTHALL
Transport ministers of the 15 EU countries have agreed a regulation

that would require road transport companies to pay the same wages and

benefits to drivers from third countries as they do to EU nationals.

The EU Council said the regulation would put an end to “social

dumping” under which EU road companies have taken on drivers from east

European countries, for instance, at significantly lower wages than those

paid to nationals.…