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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECLINE in the European Union’s use and production of coal over the past 50 years has been documented in a detailed paper by EU statistical agency Eurostat to mark the end of the European Coal and Steel Community.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN government has launched an investigation after it was discovered that around 100 organic farms have been feeding chickens wheat containing the banned herbicide Nitrofen. The agriculture ministry in Lower Saxony, where the tainted wheat was first discovered, has claimed that contaminated meat and eggs have already been sold and consumed.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend up to Euro 62 million to the City of Leipzig, in Germany, funding preparatory ground-works for an industrial park, which would include a new car manufacturing plant. The factory would be completed by 2004 in the north of the city on old farmland, renamed Industriepark Leipzig Nord.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN leather sector is receiving a major boost from its national government, both in terms of increased production support and export assistance. Industry players are hopeful of receiving IND Rupees 8 billion support under the country’s 10th (five year) Plan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN UNCHARACTERISTIC failure to be punctual is the reason why the German government lost a bid at the European Court of Justice to overturn last year’s European Union directive on tobacco manufacturing and labelling.

Berlin officials had until last October 11 to launch an appeal against the law, which had been published in the EU Official Journal on July 18.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IN a reversal of its earlier position, the European Commission has agreed that the German grid feed-in laws on the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources and from combined heat and power are legal under EU state aid rules.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
The first shipment of 1.3 litre Ford RoCam engines manufactured by the company’s improved South African production facility left for Europe last month. Ford’s Port Elizabeth plant had been designated as a supplier of the component to the company’s assembly lines worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN is the only country in the European Union that is not on course to meet its targets on the reduction of greenhouse gases, according to a report from the European Environment Agency.

The UK’s emissions of greenhouse gases rose by 0.4 per cent in 1999-2000, mainly due to an expansion in power generation from fossil fuels, especially coal.…