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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by the German government of Euro 25 million in investment aid to Kunz Faserplattenwerk Baruth to help it set up a new medium density fibreboard (MDF) mill, in Brandenburg, eastern Germany. The company is part of the Kunz Group, which develops, produces and markets timber-based material.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN research group has been awarded an EU European Business Award for the Environment for developing technology to produce fibre-board from the residue wood of palm oil plantations. The Fraunhofe Institute for Wood Research’s system will help Malaysian producers create a marketable product from the 40 million tonnes of biomass waste produced annually, which is usually either burnt or stored in poor conditions.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE FINANCIAL framework of state regulated air traffic management is often perceived by the more commercially orientated air transport industry as inflexible and driven by supply rather than demand. This perception remains despite the widespread corporatisation of ANSPs, (air navigation service providers), which has pulled them away from the firm embrace of government.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has closed competition investigations threatening the future of two international aviation cooperation deals: the Star Alliance of Lufthansa, SAS and United Airlines; and the KLM-Northwest Airlines compact. Brussels halted inquiries into Star after its partners offered to surrender slots at Frankfurt airport to allow competing services on the Frankfurt to Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco routes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT involving UK-based EDF Trading supplying gas to German wholesale company Wingas for 10 years, with a possible five-year extension, have been approved retrospectively by the European Commission’s competition directorate general. Brussels approved the deal for the supplies, (which began in 1998), after the companies agreed to amend their contracts, to block restrictions on other wholesalers being supplied by EdF Trading.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RICHES that can be made from the illegal ivory trade are well known, but what of illicit imports and exports of rare flowers. Shipping protected orchids to Europe, Japan and north America can make criminals a lot of money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Intellectual Property Organisation is moving ahead with its project to build a new administrative building at its Geneva headquarters, with Stuttgart architects Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner working to a SFr 157.5 million budget.

They have drawn up plans for a building with a minimum of 560 working places and 280 underground parking spaces.…

Keith Nuthall
INSURANCE companies will be able to reduce their exposure to natural and technological disasters within the European Union and eastern Europe in the future, assuming EU ministers agree plans to establish a central contingency emergency aid fund commanding between Euro 500,000 and Euro 1 billion; it would be raided by Member States and eastern European countries wanting to join the EU that fall victim to such disasters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission plans to postpone a ban on the marketing within the EU of cosmetic ingredients, that have been tested on animals after July 1 of this year, have sparked fury at the European Parliament, threatening the delicate negotiations over the final shape of Europe’s animal testing legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN insurance group Gerling is providing financial and managerial support to a ground-breaking environmental initiative in the hope that it will be copied and that the company will be asked to underwrite similar initiatives because of its expertise.…