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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR American golf clothing chain has failed to secure European Union (EU)-wide trademark rights to its name, because European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges found it insufficiently distinctive. Golf USA Inc franchises more than 100 golf clothing and equipment stores in 32 US states and 11 other countries: Belgium, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, South Korea, Mexico, Spain and Sweden.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is being threatened with potential massive daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s for failing to comply with European Court of Justice (ECJ) rulings over European water quality standards. The European Commission has sent Dublin legal final warning letters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dropped its long-running legal action against the Irish government over its previous authorisation of drift-netting at sea, which Brussels had claimed broke the European Union (EU) habitats directive. The Commission based its case on the impact of this fishing technique on wild Atlantic salmon, sending Ireland last year a final legal warning threatening a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case, with judges potentially ordering a drift-net ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) working group on bribery has strengthened its criticism of Britain’s dropping a bribery investigation concerning BAE Systems and the Al Yamamah defence contract with Saudi Arabia. At a March meeting, the committee “reaffirmed its serious concerns” about the matter and alleged “continued shortcomings in UK anti-bribery legislation”, for instance over the liability of legal persons to foreign bribery charges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over claims it has failed to ensure the correct implementation of the European Union’s (EU) landfill directive throughout the United Kingdom.

The directive imposes environmental and health standards on the operation and closure of landfills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has unveiled further data underlining the risk to human health posed by widespread contamination of broiler chicken flocks across Europe with the pathogen salmonella. In its latest figures, which back earlier alarming data about salmonella contamination within egg production systems, EFSA said that in 2005-6, almost a quarter – 23.7% – of EU broiler (meat) flocks were contaminated with salmonella.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IMPLEMENTATION of the European Union’s (EU) Third Money Laundering Directive by Trust and Company Service Providers (TCSPs) has given rise to a number of difficulties across the 27 EU member states, all of them related in some way to the key issue of identifying the beneficial owner of funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEPNESS in the decline of British commercial fishing catches from 1995 until 2005 has been highlighted in a new report from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat. It shows that for the north-east Atlantic, North Sea and the Baltic, total British commercial catches fell from 905,678 tonnes in 1995 to 658,802 in 2005, a fall of 28%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DISEASE is maybe the seafood industry’s worst nightmare. Whole stocks, natural or farmed, can be wiped out overnight. And, with globalisation meaning disease is ever more likely to be transported by international shipping, cargo planes, chilled train wagons and lorries, it is increasingly important seafood businesses monitor disease outbreaks abroad, to protect themselves and their sticks against exposure.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EVER wonder how Steve Austin aka the Six Million Dollar Man was able to run at lightning speeds, jump at abnormal heights, see incredible distances and hear whispers from miles away without recharging his bionic batteries?

Personally, I do not recall Steve plugging himself in anywhere and while – as a TV goggling youngster in the 70s – I was too distracted by Mr Austin’s heroic feats to care where he got his electricity from, a new EU funded project prompted me to consider this mystery.…