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BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANY European Union Member States fail to give writers and publishers the royalty rights that they are due under EU law through their national public lending rights rules, the European Commission is claiming. In a report that could lead it to take legal action at the European Court of Justice, Brussels says that France, Greece and Luxembourg fail to give right-holders any remuneration for books lent from public libraries; in Sweden royalties are only paid to national or resident authors; and in Denmark and Finland, payments are only made for books in the local national language.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission plans to postpone a ban on the marketing within the EU of cosmetic ingredients, that have been tested on animals after July 1 of this year, have sparked fury at the European Parliament, threatening the delicate negotiations over the final shape of Europe’s animal testing legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union scientists have concluded that sheep have not developed a special form of BSE, distinct from scrapie. Brussels’ scientific steering committee has ruled that sheepmeat is BSE free and so “sheep casings should not be included in the list of specified risk materials in relation to BSE.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has been censured by the European Court of Human Rights for failing to ensure the release of confidential social services information to a physical abuse victim, describing how he was ill-treated by his father as a child.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain welded tubes and pipes, or iron or non-alloy steel from Czech Republic, Poland, Thailand, Turkey and the Ukraine. The proposal follows the imposition of provisional duties in March.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A NEW campaign to promote the merits of European wines is set to open in selected off-licences and other retail outlets in the next few months following agreement by the European Commission to pay half the cost.

The project, which involves spending of Pounds 3.6 million in total for all the EU countries, will stress the quality characteristics of European wines and focus on regional identification.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union directive, regulating insurance mediators, such as brokers, has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers and will come into force as soon as procedural steps are taken.

The insurance mediation directive will allow brokers, banks and car dealers selling policies to trade across the EU by registering in their home Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has won the first – usually decisive – battle at the European Court of Justice over a case brought by Britain’s Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco, asking its judges to annul Directive 2001/37/EC on the composition and designation of cigarettes.…

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 ALAN OSBORN
THE LEGAL formalities for creating the Single European Sky are approaching completion. The initial proposal from the European Commission for integrating the EU’s national air traffic control authorities into a continental ATC system has now been approved by the EU member governments and, in slightly amended form, by the European Parliament.…