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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted Euro 32.1 million (Pounds 20 million) to help finance a promotion campaign for flowers and other agricultural products in the 15 European Union (EU) countries but none of the cash will come to the flower trade in the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTEMPT by German garden equipment group Viking-Umwelttechnik to have a symbol composed of two rectangles – one green, one grey – registered as an exclusive European Union (EU) trademark has been lost.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that consumers would have difficulty associating the shapes with the company’s products, which include garden choppers and shredders; rotary cultivators; lawn mowers; front mowers; ride-on mowers; lawn aerators; lawn trimmers; hedge clippers; sweeping machines; motor saws; and brush cutters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPETITION clearance has been granted by the European Commission to the planned deal involving Finnish paper manufacturer UPM-Kymmene Corporation acquiring Morgan Adhesives, a United States-based company making adhesive labels for manufacturers. Brussels concluded after an inquiry that the takeover would not damage competition in the European Union (EU) as US-based Avery Dennison would remain the market leader in Europe.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has given the European Commission a mandate to open negotiations on the renewal of two Agreements on Trade in Textile Products, between the EU and the Cambodian and Nepali governments.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has formally approved the continuation of anti-dumping duties on polyester synthetic staple fibres, including those on polyester filament tow, albeit at a lower rate of 21 per cent. The decision follows a European Commission review of the duties, which concluded that the rate of dumping by Khimvolokno Industrial Group VSV Trading Co had lowered.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A RULING by the European Court of First Instance today (Friday) has flatly rejected the analysis and judgments made by the European Commission about drinks packaging when it last year banned the proposed merger between the Tetra Laval group, world leader in carton packaging, and the French company Sidel, which designs and manufactures plastic bottles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has launched a package of services designed to help businesses and other organisations reduce the exposure of their staff to workplace stress, a problem it says affects 28 per cent of employees in the European Union (EU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WIDE ranging public consultation has been launched by the European Commission on improving the way that EU institutions draw up, adopt and put into effect legislation on financial services, including rules for insurance, banking, pension funds, and financial conglomerates.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is slowly moving towards the setting up of a compulsory insurance scheme that would support inventors and innovators in pursuing legal claims against patent infringers. At present many patents, especially those taken out by individuals and small companies, are openly violated by companies who gamble that the holder has neither the resources nor expertise to mount the necessary legal challenge.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a state aid inquiry into the planned reform of Gibraltar’s company taxation laws. It entails the abolition of company profits taxation, replacing it with a payroll tax, (Pounds 3,000 per employee), and a business property occupation tax.…