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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of Finnish snacks company Chips group by Norway consumer good producer Orkla. This follows the Norwegians’ offer to scrap Chips’ distribution of frozen pizzas within Finland via Sweden’s Gunnar Dafgard, to prevent the merged group dominating the Finnish frozen pizza market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) courts can excuse insurers from having to pay compensation payments owed by motor policyholders when their victims are partly to blame for a road accident, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) official has concluded. Advocate general Leendert Geelhoed said national court judges should decide such cases, unfettered by EU directives on insurance and civil liability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) courts can excuse insurers from having to pay compensation payments owed by motor policyholders when their victims are partly to blame for a road accident, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) official has concluded. Advocate general Leendert Geelhoed said national court judges should decide such cases, unfettered by EU directives on insurance and civil liability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE VISION of a Europe where police and prosecutors can effectively pursue cross-border investigations was framed at a special European Union (EU) summit in Finland in late 1999. Five years on, institutions are giving this idea substance. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a report detailing sales trends and environment improvements in European Union-consumed motor fuels. It shows, for instance, that the average sulphur content in petrol and diesel roughly halved between 2001 and 2003. In that year, 30.3% of diesel sold had less than 50 parts per million (ppm) of sulphur, with 24.9% less than 10ppm, (Germany and Sweden dominated consumption of this cleanest diesel, while regular diesel was most common in Austria, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN and Luxembourg governments will face legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) aimed at forcing them to authorised royalties to authors when their books are borrowed from libraries. The European Commission alleges by not doing so, such payments break the 1992 European Union (EU) directive on rental rights and copyright.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Finland pharmaceutical company the Orion Corporation up to Euro 150 million for its research into medicines for central nervous system problems, cardiovascular diseases and hormonal therapies. The bank is supporting the Espoo-based company’s work, under its Innovation 2010 Initiative fostering innovation and research.…

KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Finland, Belgium and Greece are being taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission, which says these governments have failed to properly establish the European Union (EU) emissions trading regime in their countries. This came into force on January 1, but has to be written into national statute books in a uniform way.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHILE discussions continue over how to ensure the security of energy supplies to the European Union (EU), Brussels institutions are sinking money into one sure bet, eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), for instance, is lending US$170 million to SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, to fund two Caspian gas projects.…

KEITH NUTHALL
On the basis of existing policies and measures alone, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and the United Kingdom should reach their individual targets. The Netherlands and Luxembourg will achieve their targets with the help of credits from the project-based mechanisms.…