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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THREE German sausages have been added by the European Commission to the EU list of protected traditionally made products, ensuring meat manufacturers cannot sell Thuringer Leberwurst, Thuringer Rotwurst and Thuringer Rostbratwurst in the EU unless they are made in Thuringia, central Germany, by traditional sausage-making traditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to spend Euro 29.25 million on schemes promoting the consumption of fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy products in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission has begin the first stage of legal proceedings against France and Germany over their procedures for the artificial insemination of beef cattle which it claims contravene EU legislation providing for the free provision of services.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIAN personal hygiene company Henkel SPIC India Ltd is expanding its soap and toothpaste manufacturing capacity at the Calcutta Chemical Company Ltd’s (Calchem) Tiljala plant, (in Calcutta), which it bought in 1999, Henkel – itself a subsidiary of Germany’s Henkel KgaA – is to modernise and expand its manufacturing of soap (from 5,000 to 12,000 tonnes per year) and toothpaste (100 to 150 tonnes per year) by this September, with a minimum investment of around INDRupees 40 million (US$ 880,000).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rejected a call from France that the European Union should increase the minimum EU excise duty on tobacco, to prevent tobacco smuggling into France from lower duty jurisdictions such as Germany while French duties are hiked.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research consortium is testing an automatic accident alert system helping drivers motoring in a foreign country raise emergency services following an accident, reducing the risk they might die or suffer serious harm. The system would help motorists who may not know where to call for assistance and may not speak the language used by nearby police, ambulance services and fire fighters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
1. THE stage has been set for one of the fiercest internal EU legal battles in recent years following a decision by the European Commission to take the Union’s member states to court over their refusal to punish France and Germany for breaching the euro zone rules last November.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is developing plans for the European Union (EU) to directly tax the citizens of the EU, rather than relying on earmarked transfers of national revenues, for instance from customs duties. The moves were revealed in an interview with EU budget Commissioner Michaele Schreyer in the German newspaper Handelsblatt.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has restricted to 22,000 the number of working migrants it will accept from the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) this May. The announcement is the latest in a string of such caps imposed by existing EU Member States, (made by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Spain), ahead of the expansion of the union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF has told of the uncovering of a Baltic State centred cigarette smuggling ring. OLAF’s 2002-3 annual report said this May police arrested 10 people and seized millions of counterfeit cigarettes. The ring was selling fake British brands, made and packaged by an illicit tobacco production plant.…