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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has further clarified European competition law regarding the operation of packaging waste disposal systems and when it will allow exclusive contracts to be signed with collection agencies for particular localities. Its advice has come in a decision to approve the packaging waste operation run in Germany by Duales System Deutschland AG, the only company that runs a nationwide system for the collection and recycling of sales packaging in the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve a plan to regularly collate new European statistics on science, technology and innovation, allowing Brussels to supply improved guidance on the status quo and possible reforms.

The European Commission has formally proposed that the EU should acquire a legal duty to run a “statistical information system” on the subjects, “to support and monitor” R&D policies.…

Keith Nuthall
COMPANIES planning Europe-wide direct marketing campaigns using unsolicited e-mails, or spamming, will have to ensure that their mailing lists are sophisticated enough to tell where an addressee actually lives, or face possible prosecution for breaking national Internet laws.

This is the likely consequence of the decision this week by EU ministers to dodge setting an EU-wide legal system for spamming and cold telesales calling, said Jake Saunders, European director of technology analyst group Strategis.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A POTENTIALLY vast new market for international insurers has been opened up in China following agreement by that country on the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation this week. “It will mean that this market, which accounts for more than a sixth of the world’s population and is set to be one of the largest economies in the world, will basically become open for insurers from other countries to set up branches and joint ventures on a steadily growing scale,” says John Cooke, head of international relations at the Association of British Insurers, in the key London insurance market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LIAISON committee of the European Union ferro-alloy industry Euroalliages has lost a case at the European Court of Justice, where it was trying to force the European Commission to reconsider its decision not to re-impose anti-dumping duties on imports into the EU of ferro-silicon from Poland and Egypt.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Electronic Signature Directive is unlikely to be implemented for a long time yet even though it should have become law in the 15 member countries in July, the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference, in Westminster, was told Wednesday.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve a plan to regularly collate new European statistics on science, technology and innovation, allowing Brussels to supply improved guidance on the status quo and possible reforms.

The European Commission has formally proposed that the EU should acquire a legal duty to run a “statistical information system” on the subjects, “to support and monitor” R&D policies.…

Alan Osborne
THE INTRODUCTION of e-commerce into the European Union, already disappointingly slow, is further threatened by the failure so far of the 15 member countries to adopt the European Electronic Signature Directive, delegates to the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference at the QE2 centre in London have been told.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
LABELS on drinks sold as health supplements – which contain “healthy” vitamins or minerals – will have to carry specific information as to content and usage under an EU directive approved by EU ministers in a “political agreement” today Thursday.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FAMILY law judgements made in the European Union on parental responsibility and access to children, where parents have split and moved to different parts of the EU, would be recognised in every Member State, under a proposal from the European Commission.…