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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 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.…

From Alan Osborn
The British drink can manufacturer Rexam plc is to sell its beverage can

plants at Runcorn in the UK and its factory in France to the German company

Schmalbach-Lubeca under a deal approved today Tuesday by the European

Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JOINT research project, involving specialists from across the EU, is to examine whether the electromagnetic fields created by mobile telephones is damaging to human health.

The subject is one of none recently identified by the Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST), an EU-managed body that promotes cooperation amongst European scientists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown out proposals to weaken a planned directive limiting emissions from outdoors mobile equipment, by allowing manufacturers to produce machines with high emissions, if they also make greener engines at the same time.

MEP’s voted to scrap European Commission plans to introduce the so-called ‘averaging and banking’ system used in the USA, because it unfairly favours large manufacturers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided not to oppose the granting of Euro 143 million, (Pounds 86 million) state aid by Italy to the Franco-Italian company ST Microelectronics for three research projects costing Euro 456 million, (Pounds 275 million).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WASTE produced by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries should not be spread on land without a detailed evaluation of its contents and properly qualified advice of its potential effect on the environment, a report from the European Commission has claimed.…

BY ALAN OSBORN AND KEITH NUTHALL
A NUMBER of tax regimes run by European Union countries are being investigated by the European Commission, which is following up suspicions that they are so loose, they amount to a breach of the EU’s competition laws.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that the European Union is becoming increasingly involved in public water policy, legislating to control the environmental quality of water supplies and watercourses. Brussels ambitions to improve water services do not, however, end at the external borders of the EU.…

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.…