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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) is paying Euro 5 million to install a dust filter at the Kostolac coal-fired power station, in eastern Serbia. Dust particles currently emitted are up to 23 times higher than allowed in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMAN chocolate company Ferrero OHG has blocked a European Court of Justice bid by Greek food company Athinaiki Oikogeniaki Artopoiia AVEE to secure EU trademark rights to its brand ‘ferró’. Ferroro said this was too similar to its name.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has reduced European Commission fines on Germany’s BASF for participating in several vitamin cartels, from Euro 296.16 to 236.84 million, and on Japan’s Daiichi from Euro 23.4 to 18 million.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SPECIAL European Parliament hearing on European Union (EU) energy liberalisation has heard concerns that cross-border supplies could actually raise prices in European countries currently enjoying cheap bills. The parliament’s industry, research and energy committee was told by Finnish green-left MEP Esco Seppänen that consumers in countries where energy prices have been low because of cheap nuclear and hydro power could rise: "We don’t want to have German or Dutch prices in Finland and our consumers don’t want to suffer because of the liberalisation of energy markets," he said.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

USEFUL trademark registration precedents are being set by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). In one case, it has ruled a three-dimensional sign in the shape of a bottle is not distinctive enough to warrant European Union (EU)-wide registration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DIPLOMATIC row between Germany and Denmark could have important implications for future drink can recycling levies that might be introduced anywhere in the European Union (EU). Denmark has formally requested that the European Commission force the German government to restrict an annual cross-border shopping trade involving Danish consumers buying around 400 million cans of beer in Germany.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WE’RE barely a third of the way through 2006 but it’s already clear that the year is going to be a hugely important one for European Union (EU) legislation affecting both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks industries.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

ATTEMPTS to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared without conditions the proposed acquisition of the food ingredients business of Germany’s Degussa by US-based Cargill.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government is opposing widespread individual transaction checks within European Union (EU) funded programmes, by the EU’s Court of Auditors. The comments have come as the European Commission is pressing for member states to release more detail about EU-funded programmes that are managed nationally, such as agricultural subsidies.…