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BY KEITH NUTHALL
LONG-TERM European Union proposals for streamlined cross-border arrest warrants, that would enable prosecutors to demand the swift handover of fraud and other criminal suspects, are to be fast-tracked as a result of the terrorist disasters in the USA.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FRANCE has been stingingly rebuffed by a judge of the European Court of Justice over her refusal to let British beef back in after the export ban was lifted by the European Commission in 1999. An Advocate General of the Court – or adviser – says France was in the wrong.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
KNITTED clothing and textile manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

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.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the German government to recover state aid of Euro 5.9 million, (DM 11.6 million), that was paid to a flax and textile spinning mill in Saxony, after an inquiry concluded that it had wrongfully claimed small business grants, while being covertly controlled by a larger group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEVELOPMENT of sophisticated electronic devices embedded within every-day objects would be a priority of the oncoming Sixth Framework Programme of EU research, under detailed plans being drawn up by the European Commission. Speaking at an IST information day in Brussels, information society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen said that the studies would assist a “radical shift from the current PC based systems and from the keyboard, mouse and screen towards almost invisible technology of natural and effortless use.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LARGEST meat processing company in Poland could receive a Euro 12.5 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Its board has been asked to approve plans to lend money to finance the transfer of best practice know-how to Sokolow SA, to expand its poultry business and promote exports.…

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
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.…