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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have ordered that new textile trade agreements agreed last month between the European Commission and Cambodia and Nepal be provisionally implemented from January 1, pending formal ratification. All parties have agreed they should last until December 2004.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted regulatory clearance to a proposed

joint venture involving three Japanese companies active in the synthetic

fibre machinery sector: Toray, Murata and Teijin. The companies are to

combine their production facilities in the Japanese market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDIAN producer of stainless steel wire is facing the reimposition of 55.6 per cent European Union anti-dumping duties, after it failed to cooperate with an investigation it had instigated, aimed at avoiding the tariff. Garg Sales Co.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a formal review of compensation offered by the French government to its air industry following last year’s September 11 attacks, claiming that Paris had extended the aid beyond that which had been authorised by Brussels.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has unveiled plans to lend the Polish Airports State Enterprise, (Przedsiebiorstwo Panstwowe Porty Lotnicze) Euro 200 million to construct a second terminal at Warsaw International Airport, Poland. The project should enable the airport to accommodate existing and rapidly rising demand for air transport in Poland, and, said an EIB note “contribute to Poland’s integration into the EU, and to strengthening transport links between the EU and Poland.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GEOFFREY Podger will start work as Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority on February 1. He has been chief executive of the UK Food Standards Agency. The EU agency will now appoint its advisory forum, its scientific committee and panels, and recruit most of its staff.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada

SPACE may be Star Trek’s final frontier, but in reality innovations used on rockets and satellites do not stay in orbit; they are often brought back to Earth where they have been used by auto-manufacturers to break their own technological boundaries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Germany’s mining and technology group RAG of German speciality chemicals company Degussa AG, so long as RAG sells its Italian, Spanish and German plants making naphtalene sulfonate, an important concrete input.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the authorisation of a food additive, hydrogenated poly-1-decene as a glazing agent in confectionery and dried fruit. It has also proposed banning the additive calcium hydrogen carbonate. And it has proposed new authorised uses for citric acid esters of mono-and-diglycerides of fatty acids (as an emulsifier in cocoa and chocolate), malic acid (in peeled potatoes to prevent browning), pectin and calcium chloride (to thicken fruit compotes other than apple), and powdered cellulose (for use in grated mozzarella as an anti-caking agent), among others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…