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BY KEITH NUTHALL, in the real world, and BELINDA BLESSED, in Second Life

EVERY decade or so comes a technology that is so new, comprehensive, interesting, and damn useful, that it completely changes the way that we have fun and do business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has imposed fines totalling Euro 328 million on six European Union (EU) companies making clothing fasteners and attaching machines, for operating cartels over the past 30 years. Britain’s Coats group was fined Euro 122.4 million; Japan’s YKK Group Euro 150.2 million; and Germany’s Prym Euro 40.5 million, while smaller fines of Euro 6 million were imposed on the USA’s Scovill Fasteners Inc; Euro 8.3 million on France’s A.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Reports from Brussels say the European Commission is ready to abandon its call for "ownership unbundling" of energy company assets in order to force separation of generation and transmission facilities. The proposal has been strongly opposed by France and Germany, with the backing of others, and there is now a clear threat the plan might be formally vetoed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission will close the bluefin tuna fishery in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean for rest of 2007 because the annual quota of 16,779.5 tonnes has been exhausted. Fisheries controlled by (Greek) Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain will affected.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN COMMISSION PREPARES FOR MAJOR SHAKE UP OF COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY

THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing to announce on November 20 major changes to the way the European Union (EU) subsidises European food production through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states and the European Commission are squaring up ahead of a political battle this autumn over anticipated energy liberalisation proposals. A letter from France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg and Slovakia has been written to the Commission stating their firm opposition to comprehensive energy unbundling in anticipated proposed European Union (EU) legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is giving food companies from 10 European Union (EU) member states Euro 38.8 million over three years to promote food product sales within the EU, with a large share going toward organic lines. France’s organic products agency Agence Bio and other French organic players, will receive Euro 3.6 million in EU funding, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) Court of First Instance has rejected a bid by southern France wine producers to hang onto subsidies declared unlawful by the European Commission. Producer EARL Salvat Père et Fils, a Perpignan-based appellations contrôlée wine committee (CIVDN) and the Paris-based national committee for wine appellation d’origine appealed against Brussels’ ruling.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the creation of a new joint venture, which is the latest example of food companies teaming up with energy companies in biofuel initiatives. The green light was given to the joint venture comprising of British petrochemical manufacturer Ineos Enterprises Limited, French food co-operative Champagne Céréales and the German oil seed crusher and food oil producer C.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ALTHOUGH the European Commission has concluded that there is no immediate need for any revision of the packaging and packaging waste directive 94/62/EC, a 2006 report on options for the packaging industry trumpets Brussels’ view that there is long term work required.…