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BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

WITH the launch of the long-debated Galileo orbiting satellite system now largely secure, attention is being turned to its varied applications and services. These were debated last week (Thurs June 12) at a half day conference for European Parliament members and European Commission officials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW pilot initiative is aiming to make European Union (EU) national electronic public procurement systems compatible, to ease cross-border online tendering. Although EU law insists that public procurement contracts are made available to suppliers from foreign member states, making such bids can involve difficult and unfamiliar paperwork.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH Dmitry Medvedev becoming Russia’s new president, the European Union (EU) has been pushing ahead to secure oil and gas supplies independent of Moscow. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and external relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner met with Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey diplomats and officials to discuss gas pipeline links.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ALMOST one third of British turkey flocks being fattened for the food industry are contaminated with salmonella, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned. In a comprehensive study of the problem across the European Union (EU), EFSA concluded that Britain has one of the poorer records within Europe, having a contamination rate above the EU average of 30.7%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) institutions and national governments must take a proactive role to publicise the usefulness and availability of intelligent transport systems, to boost demand and ultimately lower costs, members of the European Parliament say.

Its transport committee has backed a detailed report warning that despite the sophistication and proven worth in safety terms of in-vehicle intelligent systems, European "penetration rates remain very low in relation to their potential."…

By Alan Osborn

The European Commission believes that the proposed acquisition by the Austrian oil and gas group OMV of the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL "may raise competition concerns in a number of markets." Brussels has ordered an "in-depth" investigation of the deal and will make a decision within 90 days.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government has opposed Polish government proposals for introducing export refunds to promote European Union (EU) pigmeat sales abroad, despite recent London demonstrations by UK pork producers. Around 200 pig rearers picketed the 10 Downing Street residence of prime minister Gordon Brown earlier this month, protesting at low prices paid by supermarkets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has shown how it intends to pump money into boosting European Union biofuel production capacity, with a planned Euro 41.5 million loan to Hungarian manufacturer Tempora Bioenergia Zrt. It proposes using the funds to build two oil mills and an attached biodiesel refinery with a 100,000 tonnes per annum production capacity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) protected designation of origin (PDO) system that defends scores of EU traditional drinks from being copied outside their home region has been weakened. The European Court of Justice has ruled official consumer watchdogs have no legal duty to police these rules for imported products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) protected designation of origin (PDO) system that defends EU traditional drinks from being copied outside their home region has been weakened. The European Court of Justice has ruled in a case involving German generic ‘Parmesan’ cheese, official consumer watchdogs to not have to enforce these rules for imported products.…