Search Results for: France

BY KEITH NUTHALL

To the surprise of many in the drinks business, the European Court of Justice has ruled against any change in the laws covering the taxation of wine and other drinks imported into the UK. There had been a widespread belief that the Court would follow the recommendations of its advocate-general and rule that drinks bought abroad and sent to other countries should only be taxed in their country of origin thus opening the way for a massive increase in mail order and internet sales of wine from France, for example, by consumers in Britain where excise taxes are much higher.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain

TIME-WAS that food production in the Caribbean was dominated by commodities, with sugar and bananas being king and queen of island economies. Protected from the rigours of world markets by age-old ties to current or former colonial markets, these cash crop supplies remained largely unchanged for centuries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has struck its first Asia-Pacific development deal with a major oil company – Total, of France. The UNDP and Total will collaborate on boosting poor Asia-Pacific countries’ access to clean and sustainable energy; better and more transparent corporate governance; energy efficiency; alternative energy sources; and training.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

MOROCCO’S US$1.37 billion tobacco market is undergoing a transformation following Altadis’ full buyout of the country’s tobacco monopoly earlier this year, with the distribution process to be overhauled and leaf production increased and diversified away from dark tobacco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FRENCH government has proposed that the European Union (EU) imposes a "carbon levy" on goods imported into the EU from countries who have not signed the Kyoto Protocol, effectively penalising them for contributing to global warming. Prime minister Dominique de Villepin said he would make formal proposals to EU member states in early 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is planning to lend up to US$16million to one of France’s largest brewing companies for investing in its beer production interests in the former Soviet Union. BIH Brasseries Internationales Holding (Eastern) Ltd is going to pump US$57 million into its ex-USSR businesses.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ENERGY ministers of the 25 European Union (EU) countries have agreed to consider a number of questions relating to the European Commission’s recently-published energy efficiency and renewables policy, suggesting that a good deal of work will be needed to put the policy into effect.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a proposed European Union (EU) regulation which would allow police and other law enforcement officials within the EU’s Schengen open border area to inspect registration documentation held in all countries of this zone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compensation claimants for asbestos-contamination associated illness should receive awards calculated by taking their likely earning power in their home European Union (EU) country into account, even if they were working in another EU state when making the claim.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRANCE consumer control authorities have seized two skin lightener products because of concerns that they break the European Union’s (EU) cosmetics directive. One product was an Italy-made prosone gel made by Nichben Pharmaceutical Industries, sold in 30ml bottles.…