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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROCESS of transforming the European Union’s anti-fraud office OLAF into a truly independent operator, with enough investigative muscle and legislative teeth to make an impact in Brussels’ fight against financial crime, has proved to be a slow and difficult task, its latest report admits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a proposed restructuring of Coca-Cola Nestlé Refreshment Company, an existing iced tea and coffee joint venture. The changes will enhance CCNR’s autonomy from its parents and broaden its geographical scope across the European Union.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MOST governments are keenly concerned about the quality of food their people eat, and quite rightly so. They pass laws to ensure food purity and safety and that’s all very commendable – but it can be overdone.

Regulations can, sometimes deliberately, be drawn up so tightly that they effectively bar the sale of food produced in other countries, thus constituting an impediment to free trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Six chemical companies have been fined a total of 57.53 million euros (about pounds 34.5 million) by the European Commission for price-fixing and market-sharing in respect of sodium gluconate, a chemical mainly used to clean metal and glass.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the European Union’s general product safety directive have been agreed that will ensure that hotels have a legal responsibility across the EU to ensure that products made available to guests, such as toiletries and electrical goods, are not dangerous.…

Keith Nuthall
A DEAL has been struck between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers over the final shape of reforms to the European money-laundering directive, an agreement that was given political impetus by the attacks in the US and the need for improved legislation to help pinpoint terrorist-tainted funds.…

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.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAWYERS will be able to warn their clients that they are about to tip-off law enforcement authorities over concerns that they are handling dirty money, according to the final shape of long debated reforms to the EU money-laundering directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN ministers have reached “political agreement” on a proposed directive designed to harmonise the EU’s widely different national rules covering the sale of food supplements sold in special doses, in pills, capsules and sachets, such as orange vitamin C tablets.…

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.…