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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to the European Union’s (EU) intellectual property rights regime, which would force Member States to incorporate best practice into their regulations against counterfeiting and piracy. Its proposed directive for instance would require all EU governments to provide for injunctions halting the sale of counterfeit or pirate goods, undertake precautionary seizures of suspected offenders’ bank accounts, grant evidence-gathering powers for judicial authorities and adopt powers to force offenders to pay damages to right holders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLANS to lend the Slovakian government Euro 30 million to help its water sector abide by European Union environmental standards have been drawn up by the European Investment Bank. The loan would fund the design, supervision and construction of priority investment schemes in water supply and wastewater collection and treatment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned a review of European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of threaded malleable cast-iron tube or pipe fittings from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, South Korea and Thailand, after affected exporters failed to assist Brussels its investigators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that anti-dumping duties levied on imports of ferro-silico-manganese from China and the Ukraine should be reduced when consignments of the metal have lost value from damage incurred before being admitted into the European Union (EU).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A TRADE deal smoothing Poland’s planned 2004 entry into the European Union has been agreed, where the EU introduces duty free quotas for products including chocolate, biscuits and confectionery and Poland cuts its import duties for chocolate, biscuits and confectionery by 30 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to spend Euro 4.4 million on a Danish-French programme to promote sales of European Union bacon in Japan. Coordinated by Danske Slagterier, the Danish Bacon and Meat Council, the three-year campaign should stress the quality, hygiene, food safety, nutrition, labelling, animal welfare or environment-friendliness of EU bacon.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to ban the chromate-based azo dye known widely as “navy blue” which is used to colour textile and leather products. The European

Commission said the chromate content of navy blue was toxic to aquatic

organisms, particularly fish, and was not easily bio-degradable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHROMATE-BASED azo dye known popularly as “navy blue” is to be banned from use throughout the 15 European Union countries from June 2004, the European Commission has announced. The dye, a mixture of disodium and trisodium, is one of the most widely used in the leather industry but the ban will come as little surprise given the growing weight of scientific evidence that it is poisonous to aquatic life, particularly fish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is coming under intense political pressure to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling that it should implement the European Union (EU) directive on integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) in Northern Ireland. The European Commission is threatening to launch legal proceedings that could result in Britain receiving heavy daily recurring fines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JUDGES and jurors across the continent of Europe should in future be protected from corruption by their national governments in all legal cases, under an extension of a Criminal Law Convention on Corruption that has been agreed by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.…