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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUTOMAKERS across the European Union (EU) will from next April have to issue comprehensive and detailed certificates of conformity with each new vehicles illustrating compliance with EU technical standards.

These are not simple declarations. There are three models of certificate: one for completed vehicles made by one manufacturer; another for completed vehicles made by more than one automaker – say the chassis made by one and the rest by another; and a third certificate for each of these elements as they are passed to a second manufacturer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE IMMINENT threat of heavy USA tariffs on many European Union (EU) processed food exports has been lifted, after Washington and Brussels struck a preliminary deal over the long-running beef hormone dispute. Retaliatory duties such as a 300% duty on French cheese Roquefort were to be levied from this week, but have now been suspended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

YOU might think, given the preponderance of doomsayers predicting drought and desertification in Europe because of global warming, that the rainfall data would back them up.

But on a continent-wide scale, it does not.

A report on water scarcity issued by the European Environment Agency (EEA) earlier this year noted that "precipitation in Europe generally increased over the twentieth century, rising by 6-8 % on average between 1901 and 2005".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL standard helping food companies protect their products against counterfeiting is being drafted by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). It wants formal global guidelines ensuring the many devices and systems used to authenticate genuine products operate at a high standard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project will establish a consortium of microbial resource centres – called EMbaRC – (NOTE: MIX OF CASES IS CORRECT) harmonising across Europe ways of conserving and identifying samples of organisms such as bacteria, viruses and micro-fungi.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FINAL shape of the European Union’s (EU) third energy packaging and its varied options on unbundling has generated concern, especially amongst acolytes of full scale liberalisation. The debates over this legislation have pitted countries such as France, with a mercantilist approach that a borderless market is an opportunity for local, especially large, companies; and liberalisers such as the Dutch and the British seeing the union as a massive market in which the fittest thrive, from whatever country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALIAN car giant Fiat has been granted Euro 46 million in state aid by the Italian government, one month after its boss attacked handouts for other European auto makers. The European Commission authorised this state aid today (April 29) which will be spent on retooling the company’s Termini Imerese plant in Sicily so it can make a new Lancia model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has drawn back from a robust collective response to the swine flu crisis, despite the disease spreading around Europe. Meeting on Thursday, the EU Council of Ministers for health rejected a French proposal for an EU-wide travel ban to Mexico, the source of the outbreak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DELICATE state of European Union (EU) and Russia diplomatic and energy relations has been illustrated starkly by the inclusion of eastern European gas interconnection projects within the European economic stimulus package. National governments of these new EU member states threatened to torpedo the entire agreement – seen as the lynchpin of European efforts to shake off the recession – if their gas schemes were not included.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN this year’s Money Laundering Bulletin series of articles on the development of an international profession of anti-money laundering (AML) specialists, we have often examined specialists working at the sharp end. But that is not the whole story of course.…