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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY’S Bayer has won an appeal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) preventing fellow German company Kaul GmbH’s European Union registration of CAPOL as a trademark for a preservative especially used for confectionary. Bayer successfully claimed the mark is too similar to its ARCOL preservative brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed a bid by Swedish Match to overturn a European Union (EU) ban on oral tobacco products, such as the company’s ‘snus’. It and tobacco importer Arnold André launched an ECJ case alleging that the 1992 directive introducing the ban broke EU treaty provisions guaranteeing the freedom of movement of goods around the Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN plastic packaging material manufacturer has won a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) enabling it to secure the European Union (EU)-wide registration of a diagrammatic trademark representing a bottle. Henkel KGaA, of Düsseldorf, was appealing against the refusal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) – OHIM – to register a three-dimensional symbol shaped as a translucent shampoo white bottle, standing upside-down.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN liquid soap manufacturer has won a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) enabling it to secure the European Union (EU)-wide registration of a diagrammatic trademark. Henkel KGaA, of Düsseldorf, was appealing against the refusal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) – OHIM – to register a three-dimensional symbol shaped as a translucent white bottle.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is hailing the success of a European Union (EU)-funded research project that has created new technology allowing 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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH, Belgian and German governments have placed 162 cattle farms in quarantine after it was revealed they were feeding (partly dairy) livestock potato peels contaminated with dioxin. The carcinogenic chemical had been present in clay used by potato supplier McCain to separate potatoes of differing qualities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Germany’s Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG (MRW) of German company Fuchs. MRW produces and distributes steel tubes as well as steel and input stock for the production of tubes. Its parent company Salzgitter – also a German company – manufactures steel products, including large welded diameter tubes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECSTASY has become Britain’s number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHT of companies to export mineral waste around the European Union (EU) for storage in mine galleries has been strengthened by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Judges said a Belgian environmental regulator Institut Bruxellois pour la Gestion de l’Environnement (IBGE) should not have independently redesignated as waste for disposal salt residues destined for burial in salt mines at Teutschenthal, Germany.…