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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH formal approval being secured for the launch of the European Food Safety Authority, the European Commission has promised to work swiftly so that the new body can be operational by the end of this year in its temporary home in Evere, north Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGICAL advancement seems to go hand in hand with miniaturisation; witness the development of the mobile phone from its 1980’s high-tech brick to today’s tiny handset; smaller than the devices used by Captain Kirk in the early Star Trek episodes that peered centuries into the future.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A PROPOSAL by the European Commission to end discrimination against non-EU nationals in the social security field could help local authority social services departments dealing with new immigrants ensure that their clients receive state benefits.

Brussels says that EU social security co-ordination rules covering the rights of citizens who move from one country to another, (and which up until now relate only to EU nationals, stateless persons, refugees and members of families and survivors of EU nationals), should apply to third country nationals in general.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has voted to impose definitive 22.5 per cent anti-dumping duties on imports of ferro molybdenum from China. Sweden opposed the move, with Germany, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Britain abstaining. The European Commission investigation leading to the decision was sparked by a complaint by EU producers association Ferro-alliages.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to provide Euro 115 million in grants, (Pounds 71 million), which could be tapped to support investment into new intermodal freight projects enabling road transport operators to transfer cargo to rail and shipping services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS government has been authorised to grant its national horticulture industry another six years of breaks from its energy tax on natural gas. The European Commission – which must approve special subsidies of this kind in the EU – has allowed the scheme to run until 2007.…

Keith Nuthall
THE GROWING thaw in relations between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar and its airport, has prompted the European Commission to retable a long-standing proposal to establish a European Union regime on the safety inspection of aircraft from non-EU countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PANEL of company law specialists has made recommendations to the European Commission about a possible future EU takeover directive, which Brussels is to propose this Spring. The revamped legislation will draw on their ideas and follows the rejection by the European Parliament of a six-year-old takeovers proposal last summer.…

Keith Nuthall
A HIGH-LEVEL group of financial experts has made recommendations to the European Commission about a possible future EU takeover directive, which Brussels is to propose this Spring. The revamped legislation will draw on their ideas and follows the rejection by the European Parliament of a six-year-old takeovers proposal last summer.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A NEW model contract drawn up by the European Commission has been published to try and simplify life for companies engaged in personal data transfers while at the same time safeguarding them from claims under EU data protection legislation.…