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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that European Union (EU) governments may not ban feed supplements that are lawfully manufactured in another EU country because they contain certain levels of vitamin D. Germany’s Denkavit Futtermittel GmbH had been fighting North Rhine-Westphalia restrictions on sales of its Netherlands-manufactured piglet feed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is warning that around 100 million people fall into poverty every year because of medical care payments they cannot afford. It adds that an additional 150 million people spend nearly half their incomes on medical expenses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PROMOTORS of a European Commission-supported research project encouraging municipalities across Europe to establish local broadband services say their four trials have proved a success. The scheme is especially designed to help local authorities seed new comms tech investment in zones deemed too remote by commercial service providers for investing in infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DENMARK may be ordered to liberalise rules restricting foreign registered company car use in Denmark by Danish residents. Francis Jacobs, an advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recommended that the full court finds these rules in breach of Denmark’s EU treaty obligations on freedom of movement across Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A MAJOR battle is looming over the European Union’s (EU) alcohol policy, with Britain seen by many as the major opponent of tougher anti-drink legislation amongst the 25 member states. A Communication (formal policy paper) ‘on a strategy on alcohol-related harm’ is being drawn up by the European Commission, but while this is not due for adoption before mid-2006, furious lobbying on both sides is already evident.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed a bid by Swedish Match to overturn a European Union (EU) ban on oral tobacco products, such as the company’s ‘snus’. It and tobacco importer Arnold André launched an ECJ case alleging that the 1992 directive introducing the ban broke EU treaty provisions guaranteeing the freedom of movement of goods around the Union.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE WORLD is waking up to biofuels, increasingly produced from food crops and their waste by-products and now one of the growing energy alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. As prices for traditional energy rise year on year, and energy watchers warn of oil production peaking around 2010, governments are looking towards food producers to grow the raw feedstock for the fuel of the twenty-first century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY’S Bayer has won an appeal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) preventing fellow German company Kaul GmbH’s European Union registration of CAPOL as a trademark for a preservative especially used for confectionary. Bayer successfully claimed the mark is too similar to its ARCOL preservative brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY’S controversial drinks packaging return system may have to be shelved, after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled it illegal. Judges said by giving the drinks industry only six months to prepare for the introduction in January 2003 of mandatory deposits on non-reusable mineral water, beer and soft drinks packaging, it broke rules guaranteeing European Union free trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCREASED compensation of up to US$1.152 billion for damage caused by serious oil spills will be made available from March 3 next year, when an International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund comes into being. This follows the ratification of its founding protocol by Spain, fulfilling the minimum number of major oil importing states required for the formal creation of this International Maritime Organisation (IMO)-coordinated fund.…