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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the German government’s Euro 2.7 billion 2005 coal industry aid package, saying it complied with a previously agreed 2003-5 subsidy programme. More than half – Euro 1.49 billion – is for operating aid, Euro 597 million reducing production, Euro 617.5 million exceptional costs and Euro 21.6 million miners’ benefits.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IMPORTANT changes in the European auto manufacturing industry are expected next year following the introduction of a new crackdown on dangerous chemicals by the European Union (EU). The proposed legislation, known as REACH (registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals), has been recently adopted by the European Parliament and now requires the assent of the 25 EU member countries and this is likely to be given – at least in principle – before the year-end.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$2.5 million to Kazakhstan’s Bericap Kazakhstan LLC to construct a new factory making plastic food container tops (or closures) for local and other central Asian markets. Part of the German plastic container company, the Bericap Holding Group, the Kazakhstan business plans to build purpose-built production facilities, allowing it to relocate its operations, optimising costs; providing space for future expansion; and improving environmental plus health and safety management.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is hailing the success of a European Union (EU)-funded research project that has created new technology helping small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) plants to run on biomass fuels. Applicable for the power range of 200 – 1,000 kWel, its key innovation is using a screw-type steam engine.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
TO talk of the German paint industry – the largest in Europe – is to talk of a recession in construction that simply won’t go away. The overall paint market is mature, stable, highly competitive and characterised, at least in recent years, by virtually no growth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DENMARK may be ordered to liberalise rules restricting foreign registered company car use in Denmark by Danish residents. Francis Jacobs, an advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recommended that the full court finds these rules in breach of Denmark’s EU treaty obligations on freedom of movement across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s consumer alert service RAPEX has reported the voluntary withdrawal from distribution from German stores of a Turkey-made shampoo range ‘Hobby Collection Baby Shampoo’, both blue and pink bottles. RAPEX reported "presence of excessive quantities of pseudomonas aeruginosa", and non-compliance with the European Union cosmetic product directive.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE WORLD is waking up to biofuels, increasingly produced from food crops and their waste by-products, and now one of the growing energy alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. As prices for traditional energy rise year on year, and energy watchers warn of oil production peaking around 2010, governments are looking towards food producers to grow the raw feedstock for the fuel of the twenty-first century.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE WORLD is waking up to biofuels, increasingly produced from food crops and their waste by-products and now one of the growing energy alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. As prices for traditional energy rise year on year, and energy watchers warn of oil production peaking around 2010, governments are looking towards food producers to grow the raw feedstock for the fuel of the twenty-first century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Akzo Nobel, BASF and UCB Euro 66.34 million for operating between 1992-8 a cartel for choline chloride (CORRECT SPELLING) cartel (poultry and pig feed additive vitamin B4). These Dutch, German and Belgium chemical companies set European prices and market shares with the USA’s DuCoa and Canada’s Chinook, escaping fines by leaving the cartel.…