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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union (EU) countries to further liberalise their professions, including legal specialists, although a Communication’ policy paper praises Britain for its reforms. The UK “is making good progress” across the board in fighting restrictive practices regarding profession entry, fees and advertising, along with Denmark and the Netherlands, said Brussels.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT is probably true, as some anti-tobacco campaigners claim, that if the European Union (EU) had had the statutory authority to act in the public health area in recent years, then the legal crackdown on smokers would have been far tougher than it has been.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has delayed agreement of new regulations governing how metal ore mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt; sulphides are found around volcanic areas and crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AFTER twenty years of haggling, a deal on wine has been reached by the European Union (EU) and the United States under which the EU will accept existing American wine-making practices such as adding malic acid to correct deficient acidity (common in California) and the use of oak wood chips during ageing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is being pressed to fund France’s plan to establish a European Digital Library as a rival to US-based Internet search engines such as Google, which wants to scan 15 million books. A second meeting of the library’s advisory council also heard that Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Italy have formally agreed to be involved in the project.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MORE than 20 years after an agreement was first proposed, a deal has been struck between the European Union (EU) and the United States over wine and both sides have acclaimed it. But has the EU given too much away?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Management Committee for Wine has approved a plan to allow crisis distillation of up to two million hectoliters of Italian table wine. Assuming the decision is accepted by the European Commission, distillation could begin from September 25, with Euro 1.914 per hectolitre multiplied by a wine’s abv percentage being handed over to producers facing a wine glut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OIL price rises wrought by Hurricane Katrina and endemic strong global demand have encouraged European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs to press ahead with his plans to promote energy conservation in the EU. He has released a paper stressing the need to accelerate the European Action Plan on energy efficiency and also to promote more effective international action on the topic bilaterally and through the International Energy Agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE report on the behaviour of European Union (EU) consumers has shown that Britain’s recent deflation of prices in retail clothing is far from typical, with only six other member states in the 25-country bloc having the same experience.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FRENCH government investigation has shown that the recent Newcastle Disease outbreak on a Surrey pheasant farm was caused by a shipment of birds from a farm in France’s Loire Atlantique region. Its ministry of agriculture found traces of the same disease strain, and ordered a preventative culling of 35,000 partridges and 20,000 pheasants.…