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BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN is one of only seven European countries that are fully complying with key guidelines on institutional oversight of financial information issued by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). Its standard No.1 advises on how the harmonisation of institutional oversight systems in Europe maybe achieved, especially regarding enforcement of good practice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NATIONAL tax laws within the European Union (EU) that levy the same money from dividends earned from local companies as from those in other EU member states are legal, a European Court of Justice advocate general has ruled in a Belgian case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned reliable statistics on the extent of super-bug Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) in Europe is "largely unknown". The dangerous and highly robust germ has been shown present in 10 to 200 hospitalised American patients per 10,000 admissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MASS production of a vaccine to fight the H5N1 bird flu strain in humans could begin within a year, after pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline launched clinical trials in Germany and Belgium.

The company is testing two vaccines: the first would be targeted at fighting a pandemic after an outbreak; the second aimed at advance inoculations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has underlined its determination to forge a European Union (EU) energy policy with substance by a slew of legal actions against member states over renewables, liberalisation and biofuels. Brussels has started proceedings against Britain, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic for failing to report progress under the 2001 directive promoting renewable energy sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government is opposing widespread individual transaction checks within European Union (EU) funded programmes, by the EU’s Court of Auditors. The comments have come as the European Commission is pressing for member states to release more detail about EU-funded programmes that are managed nationally, such as agricultural subsidies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union pharmaceutical manufacturers may have difficulty avoiding defective product claims through time limitation rules if they argue delivering a medicine to a wholly-owned subsidiary means releasing it onto the market. This advice from European Court of Justice (ECJ) came in a case involving Sonofi Pasteur MSD Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled imminent plans to abolish the European Union (EU) system of pre-financing export refunds for food, widely used in the past to manipulate EU beef sales. Because of this, EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel has told the EU Council of Ministers that the system would be replaced with direct beef export controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CATTLE prices rose across the European Union (EU) last year, according to the latest figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, but fell for other livestock. Cattle prices increased by 3%, although with wide variations between member states: up 12.3% in Germany and 2.5% in France, but down 2.1% in Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRANCE, the Czech Republic and Poland are encouraging the European Commission to obtain sufficiently detailed data on an alleged boom in European Union apple imports to allow temporary protective safeguard duties to be erected, in line with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.…