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BY ALAN OSBORN
FRANCE has escaped virtually scot-free over its six-year ban on exports of British beef in spite of a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) last December that the ban was illegal. The European Commission announced today Thursday that it had withdrawn its application to the ECJ for the imposition of a daily fine on France for failing to implement the December judgement.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a pilot project designed to show industrial companies how they can reduce the amount of energy they draw from their own on-site power plants and from the grid by examining how they run motorised equipment such as pumps, fans or compressors.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Romanian Industrial Energy Efficiency Company Euro 11 million, so it can help around 15 creditworthy industrial companies develop “more efficient and reliable sources of energy,” especially by using co-generation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to remove all textile import quotas applied to Brazil under a

Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two sides this month (November). In return, Brazil will respect maximum tariff levels, refrain from applying non-tariff barriers to EU exports, and discontinue the application of an additional tax on textile and clothing imports.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE WAY has been cleared for approval of a European Union (EU) directive on tobacco advertising. This follows a vote by the European Parliament against a number of amendments that could have risked a re-run of the rejection by the European Court of Justice of an earlier proposal in 2000 because the EU overstepped its powers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The manufacture and sale of cosmetics and ingredients used in cosmetic products that have been tested on animals is to be banned in the European Union under an agreement reached by EU ministers and the European Parliament today (Thursday).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
OPPORTUNITIES for British and other European Union (EU) electricity power companies to participate in the reconstruction and development of war-damaged electricity systems in the Balkans have been opened up by the signing of an agreement to bring the systems into the EU’s regulatory orbit.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE “CE” mark, denoting that a product was made in the European Union, is being abused by unscrupulous manufacturers and traders and is giving legitimate companies a bad name according to delegates at a recent international forum on market surveillance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HALF-HEARTED efforts by European Union Member States to impose controls on shabby shipping have been blamed for the disastrous sinking of the ill-named Prestige oil tanker, off Galicia, Spain. Placing on record their disgust at the environmental tragedy, the Council of Europe’s environment committee deplored “the negligence of governments and their lack of any real determination to provide themselves with the means of preventing such disasters – or at least minimising their impact.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered a reduction in the state aid proposed by the German government to help the company Capro Schwedt to build a new plant for the production of caprolactam, the main input material for the production of synthetic fibres.…