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BY KEITH NUTHALL
REGULATORY clearance has been granted by the European Commission for the acquisition of Unilever’s European Culinary Brands Businesses by Campbell Soup Co. of the United States. The sale fulfils commitments given by Unilever last year to obtain European Union clearance for its purchase of Bestfoods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has concluded that the liberalisation of the EU telecommunications markets has contributed to a sharp cut in prices and that planned additional reforms are likely to make European charges cheaper still; it also concludes that reforms are likely to harmonise future electricity prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH Maritime Law Association has called on European Union legislators to be careful when framing any possible directive on environmental liability, to make sure that its regulations do not clash with existing international conventions on sea pollution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOYOLA de Palacio, vice-president of the European Commission warmly welcomed today’s (Thursday) IMO agreement and confirmed that the 15 EU member states would implement their right to deny single-hull oil tanker access to their ports from 2015.

Mrs Loyola de Palacio, also European Commissioner for transport and energy, said that the EU had led the fight against marine oil pollution and was proud of its role in securing an international agreement which would make the seas safer and reduce the risk of oil spill catastrophes.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EUROPE, in wine terms, has pedigree. It is, after all, the home of the longest established commercial wine-making tradition. But these days, its primacy is being challenged by colonial upstarts, in the shape of New World vineyards, and guess what; the new kids on the block seem to be ganging up on the oldsters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a strong attack on the Council of Europe’s draft convention on cybercrime, which is supposed to protect online publishers by committing European countries – including those in the east – to outlawing the abuse of digital copyright.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY appears to be the most industrially innovative country in the European Union, filing 43.6 per cent of all EU patent applications with the European Patent office in 1999, well ahead of its nearest rival France, which filed just 14.9 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEMBER States of the European Union reduced their emissions of the six key greenhouse gases by four per cent between 1990 and 1999, according to a report from the European Environment Agency. This takes the EU half way towards achieving its Kyoto target of reducing emissions of these gases to 8 per cent below their 1990 level by the years 2008-2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to take Italy to the European Court of Justice, claiming that its public procurement procedures for local and state administrations hiring architects, break EU rules on fairness and openness. The Commission has raised three objections regarding the relevant Italian law, (the “1997 Karrer decree).…

Keith Nuthall
ITALY has announced that it is to join a growing band of European Union countries that want to grant special national aid for the distillation of excess wine stocks, in the teeth of opposition from the European Commission. It wants Member States to abide by the new common market organisation, which was designed to limit such production subsidies.…