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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s food and drink consumer alert service has warned of further contaminations in Italy of various non-alcoholic drinks from potentially toxic packaging print ingredient isopropyl thioxanthone. Its ‘rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF)’ reported it leaching into a banana and strawberry soya drink, standard orange juice, and "red" orange juice made in Germany; plus orange juice, general ‘fruit’ juice and chocolate milk from Austria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILED checks on the immigration status required of non-European Union (EU) staff that EU companies want to post to another EU country are illegal, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. It has said immigration authorities should rely on a "simple declaration" from a company that its non-EU employees comply with the immigration rules of the EU country where it is based.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) Court of First Instance has agreed that a challenged German tax exemption for nuclear operators to help them dispose of irradiated fuel and waste is legal under European Union (EU) law. Agreeing with the European Commission, judges said that financial reserves created to cover these disposal costs, and the permanent closure of outdated plants, could legally be counted amongst nuclear utilities’ liabilities in tax returns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INSOLVENT businesses within the European Union (EU) may not transfer bankruptcy cases to a different member state, simply by the owner moving from their home country, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Its EU-wide precedent followed a case involving a German businesswoman who closed a telecommunications business, and then launched insolvency proceedings regarding her assets in Wuppertal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GERMAN fruit juice and fruit drink company has failed to persuade the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to allow the trademarking of its stand-up pouch packaging shapes. Deutsche SiSi-Werke GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG was appealing against a refusal by the ECJ Court of First Instance to permit trademark registration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states should not levy capital duties on subsidiaries, when a parent company boosts the capital of a sub-subsidiary, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. It said that although such financial transfers might boost the share value of a subsidiary, this is merely "an automatic and incidental economic repercussion", not a "second separate contribution which could…be subject to tax".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW tough fuel and road transport pollution standards have been proposed for the European Union (EU) by the European Commission, removing a loophole enabling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to be covered by looser emission limits currently allowed for commercial vans.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

RECENT positive advances in the paint and coatings industry symbolise general satisfaction with Malaysia’s business outlook. It might not have the cheapest labour in Asia but the workforce is skilled, productive and highly competitive. Access to infrastructure (especially ports) for exports is also reported to be good.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new regulation to support organic food production – unveiled just before Christmas – isn’t quite the key to lift-off in this sector that some of us were hoping for. A cynic would say that’s because it doesn’t provide any fresh money though Brussels, farm people say that was never the plan anyway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY, Belgium, Greece, Malta, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Portugal have called on the European Commission to support poultry producers hit by low prices because of bird flu outbreaks in Turkey and Romania.

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