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BY ALAN OSBORN
YOUNG people in Britain are more than twice as likely to die in road accidents between 10.00 pm and 2.00 am Friday to Saturday and during

the same hours Saturday to Sunday than at any other time of the week

according to figures released by the European Environmental Agency (EEA).…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EFFICIENCY of a combined heat and power plant in Poznan, one of Poland’s largest companies, should receive a boost when it is privatised this year. France’s Dalkia and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are buying an 85% stake in the plant operator Zespol Elektrocieplowni Poznan (ZEC) for Euro 74 million via their jointly-owned subsidiaries Dalkia Termika and PEC Poznan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have asked the European Commission to provide them with information about the cost of going it alone with building an ITER prototype in France, should there be no global consensus on where this should be sited.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Union (EU) Commissioner for research Janez Potocnik has declared he would be prepared to build an ITER-scale fusion reactor at Cadarache, France, if there is no international agreement on where to build the prototype. In answers to a European Parliament questionnaire, he said the EU “could consider launching the construction of the ITER at Cadarache…with those of its partners willing to be involved”, although only at the “very last resort”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has confirmed the right of European Union (EU) governments to force EU motor insurance providers into taking a driver’s safety and accident record into account when setting policy premiums. Judges threw out a bid by the European Commission to force France and Luxembourg into scrapping such requirements, written into their national laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has added seven traditional food products to the EU register of protected geographical indications: Spanish beef Ternera de Navarre, Carne de Vacuno del País Vasco and Carne de Cantabria and veal Carne de la Sierra de Guadarrama, Portuguese sausages Farinheira de Estremoz e Borba, Italian Kiwi fruits Latina and Valle del Belice and France’s Noix du Périgord nuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has today (29-9) fined Groupe Danone/Kronenbourg Euro 1.5 million and Heineken Euro 1 million for striking an anti-competitive agreement in the French hotel, restaurant and café markets for beer. Their agreement, concluded the Commission, was never implemented, but Brussels has imposed fines anyway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RENEWABLE energy and CHP sectors will be closely studying the appointment of new European commissioners for energy and the environment, who take office this November, especially as the change of guard means the departure of energy commissioner Loyola de Palacio.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
In France, lawyers do not have to report when information is received from clients or obtained on them “either within the framework of a legal consultation unless this aims to launder money (SAME AS THE UK SURELY?) or if these persons carry them out (SORRY, DON’T UNDERSTAND THE GRAMMAR HERE – ARE ‘THESE PERSONS’ THE LAWYERS AND TO WHAT DOES ‘CARRY THEM OUT’ REFER?)…

BY ALAN OSBORN
POCA also contains “freestanding” reporting obligations. At present, offences arising from failure to disclose apply only to a limited number of lawyers in the “regulated sector” who give advice on financial services.

Implementation of the second directive will mean that lawyers conducting any of the activities listed in the directive will fall within its reach.…