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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF is claiming focusing on larger frauds and referring smaller scams to national law enforcement agencies is paying off. More than 75% of cases closed in 2009 led to judicial or financial recovery proceedings, according the agency’s latest annual report.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL consortium will generate and investigate a liquid library of 3,600 plant extracts, hunting for compounds useful for cosmetics (and food) manufacture. Germany’s BASF and Bruker Biospin GMBH, Greece’s Korres SA Natural Products will work with national research centres from Greece, France and South Africa plus universities from Greece, Panama and Switzerland in this 2010-2014 Euro 4.2 million, European Union-funded research project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAJOR investment could be required by European Union (EU) gas utilities because of a new EU regulation insisting that member states have sufficient storage capacity to deal with supply crises such as the Russia and Ukraine dispute in 2008 and 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IMAGINATION and guile continue to help fraudsters milk hundreds of millions of Euros from the European Union’s (EU) well-stocked budgets, explains the latest report from EU anti-fraud agency OLAF, writes Keith Nuthall.

OLAF spends a lot of money sniffing out fraud in the institutions and programmes of the EU and the payment of duties earmarked to fund this spending.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and CRISTINA MUNTEAN

A SLEW of new European Union (EU) regulations laying down the precise conditions for road transport cabotage operations in the EU came into effect on May 14, and there are hopes they will encourage high quality and competitive haulage for materials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A US Geological Survey expert has warned environmental difficulties could prevent Europe harvesting significant reserves of shale gas maybe in Britain, Germany, Sweden, Poland, France, Hungary and Austria. Research geologist Don Gauthier told a French Institute for Foreign Relations conference in Brussels the "high density" of wells required, including horizontal wells, could anger urbanised Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer safety network RAPEX is continuing to report health risks associated with banned dyes in clothing imports into the EU. In its latest bulletins, RAPEX noted a Germany recall of a China-made KiK fleece blanket containing banned azo-dyes (4-amino azobenzene) releasing carcinogenic amines.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

By contrast, Germany has relatively few convenience stores on a per capita basis, largely because of German consumers’ enthusiasm for buying food at a discount. "The discounters have a higher market share here than in other countries. Their share of the total retail food market is around 49%," said Mr Kai Falk, spokesman for the Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE), the German retail federation representing about 310,000 companies with around 2.7 million employees.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

COMPARED to its more health-conscious neighbours, Denmark has for many years been a comparatively lethargic member of the Nordic club when it comes to imposing controls and legislative restrictions on the sale and use of tobacco products.

However, Denmark’s perceived neutrality towards the tobacco sector may be about to change under Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT) ambitious targets, set down on April 5 under his centre-right government’s Vision 2020 strategy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is helping the USA deal with the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Coordinated by the EU emergency response group, the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), the EU will send oil skimmers and oil spill experts.…