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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) pharmaceutical sector will benefit from two new networks of research teams that will, (with a third environmental study group), benefit from Euro 700 million of European Commission funding. The first will be established by Britain and focus on systems biology and the second by France and Germany, focusing on human infections and related issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GOVERNMENTS of Germany, Poland, Cyprus and Estonia have been threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice over their alleged failure to include aviation pollution in their laws implementing the European emissions trading system. This was supposed to have happened by last February, but the European Commission says these four countries have failed to meet their legal commitments, even though they claim to be trying to set up the necessary controls.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

THE DANISH government has turned its face against a storm of criticism following confirmation by its ministry of taxation yesterday (May 12), that prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s centre-right administration plans to proceed with the implementation of a controversial saturated food fat tax on October 1.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FEW transatlantic agreements have given rise to more friction and animosity than the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) set up by the US Treasury in 2001 shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and in direct response to them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, DEIRDRE MASON and MJ DESCHAMPS

Car dealers like a good deal – that’s a given. And they hate a bad deal. But when they are getting a bad deal, and the wool is being pulled over their eyes – well, that takes the biscuit.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

WITH the heightened threat of terrorism post-9/11, America has undertaken a number of measures to tighten its current airport security operations. However, these increasingly strict measures have often come at the expense of passengers’ time and patience, with lengthy queues and – what some believe to be – invasion of privacy turning people off air travel.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

WHEN is a power plant deemed to be dedicated to a major customer? Obviously a key consideration is its location – but what if locating a major power plant right next to an industrial consumer is not acceptable?…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

Illicit tobacco problem is reborn in high tax Spain

In the 1990’s Spain was a by-word for smuggled tobacco, but then the country successfully stifled the black market. Now, with higher taxes, contraband tobacco is back in Spain, and legitimate traders are worried.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, KEITH NUTHALL and RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INTRODUCTION of new global accounting standards through the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which began some five years ago and will take 10 or more years to achieve is a massive undertaking which will revolutionise corporate bookkeeping and lead to an international standard matrix of values allowing for much greater transparency and facilitating country-by-country financial comparisons.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Big European food retailers have been delighted with a new ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) slapping down regulations imposed by the Spanish government to restrict the location and operations of hypermarkets in Catalonia. The court, whose decisions are legal precedents throughout every country and region in the European Union (EU), said Spain had failed to fulfill obligations imposed by the "freedom of establishment" provision of the EU treaties.…