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BY MARK ROWE
THE BEST selling international brand, Lucky Strike, launched in 1871, is older than BAT and its eye-catching bull’s eye remains one of the oldest trademarks in the world. It is sold in some 90 countries and is BAT’s premier global brand for the key ASU30 segment of the market, particularly with urban smokers.…

BY MARK ROWE
PEDESTRIANS and cyclists involved in an accident with a car would be covered by the insurance of the vehicle, even if they caused the incident, if proposed amendments to European law are agreed. Changes tabled to the EU’s Fifth Motor Insurance Directive by Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society – will go before European Parliament for first reading this autumn.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NORWEGIAN government has moved to liberalise its alcohol retail system, following the order from the European Free Trade Area Court that it should scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where the sale of brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet is generally limited to domestically-produced lines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVERSING 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 do not constitute state aid, that Brussels could, in theory, ban.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws concerning car recycling. There have, however, been new binding rules emerging at state level.…

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 PHILIP FINE

A CRACKDOWN on healthcare fraud netted the US government more than US$1.3 billion (GBPounds880 million) last year, according to recently released federal statistics. Efforts to better detect and eliminate health care fraud grew over the last five years, due, says Washington, to the establishment of its national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program under the Clinton administration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ruled that the British government is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by blocking men from receiving both a Widow’s Payment and a Widowed Mother’s Allowance.

Its ruling followed a case brought by Kevin Willis, of Bristol, who was awarded Pounds 25,000 in damages and Pounds 12,500 costs and expenses.…

Keith Nuthall
AN ICELANDIC drinks importer could win compensation from the Iceland government, after the European Free Trade Area Court found that Reykjavik had broken the rules of the European Economic Area, (of which Iceland is a part), by maintaining its alcohol importation monopoly until December 1995.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE’S retail businesses and associations have been asked to comment on detailed plans released by the European Commission for a broad ‘framework’ directive on fair trading; the legislation may for instance, ban “business from engaging in commercial practices that are misleading or likely to mislead the consumer.”…