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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PAN-EUROPEAN research project is investigating how nano-particles can best be incorporated in liquids such as paints, improving their effectiveness. For instance, the three-year PROFORM project thinks nano-particles can help protect paint from the sunlight, for instance, but only if these tiny elements are consistently distributed within a liquid, a tall order given the gaps in knowledge about their behaviour and properties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of major European plastics producers have promised to abide by an internationally recognised standard when manufacturing biodegradable plastics, to minimise their environmental impact. Germany’s BASF, the USA’s Cargill Dow, Italy’s Novamont and the Netherlands’ Rodenburg Biopolymers and others, supplying 90% of the EU biodegradable plastics market, made the pledge in a voluntary agreement with the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission, for regulating garlic powder capsules as medicines, when they are considered a foodstuff elsewhere in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN government is being taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission for insisting that hospitals may only be supplied medicines by pharmacies in the same or neighbouring districts. Brussels calls this an illegal obstacle to European Union (EU) free trade, because it blocks medicine imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a report detailing sales trends and environment improvements in European Union-consumed motor fuels. It shows, for instance, that the average sulphur content in petrol and diesel roughly halved between 2001 and 2003. In that year, 30.3% of diesel sold had less than 50 parts per million (ppm) of sulphur, with 24.9% less than 10ppm, (Germany and Sweden dominated consumption of this cleanest diesel, while regular diesel was most common in Austria, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend around Euro 40 million to Germany’s Impfstoffwerk Dessau-Tornau to help it build a new research and development building and a new production facility for virus vaccines. The loan would also part-fund the reconstruction of a filling unit, the expansion of existing cooling, storage and vaccine production facilities plus investments in equipment.…

Keith Nuthall
Coca-Cola is to return to selling its drinks through supermarket outlets in Germany after a 2-year break which followed the introduction of a bottle and can deposit scheme at the beginning of 2003. The company said it would begin with 1.5-litre bottles for the German discount supermarket chain Lidl in mid March 2005, later moving to other drinks like Coca-Cola Light, Fanta, and Sprite.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN sparkling wine producer has lost an attempt at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to overturn the European Union (EU) registration of the trademark Lindenhof by a rival company for “mineral and aerated waters and other non-alcoholic drinks; fruit drinks and fruit juices”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined three companies Euro 216.91 million for operating a cartel for monochloroacetic acid, a food thickener: the Netherlands’ Akzo Nobel; France’s Atofina – now Arkema; and Germany’s Hoechst.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of major European plastics producers have promised to abide by an internationally recognised standard when manufacturing biodegradable plastics, to minimise their environmental impact. Germany’s BASF, the USA’s Cargill Dow, Italy’s Novamont and the Netherlands’ Rodenburg Biopolymers and others, supplying 90% of the EU biodegradable plastics market, made the pledge in a voluntary agreement with the European Commission.…