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BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas

THERE is another side to the loss of life and devastation wreaked in the USA by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis last year, a market reaction that has brought unsought benefits to the US paint and coatings industry.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

CADBURY Schweppes may scupper an attempt by Britain’s Inland Revenue to levy GBPounds 8.6 million taxes from an Ireland-based subsidiary. It wanted to charge Cadbury Schweppes Treasury International (CSTI), alleging it was a shell company for dodging higher British tax rates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CADBURY Schweppes may scupper an attempt by Britain’s Inland Revenue to levy GBPounds 8.6 million taxes from an Ireland-based subsidiary. It wanted to charge Cadbury Schweppes Treasury International (CSTI), alleging it was a shell for dodging higher British tax rates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to the scientific basis and transparency of decisions on approving or banning genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foodstuffs. This follows concerns from member states that too many GM products are being approved for sale in the European Union (EU).…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) may have helped Italian courts control any insolvency proceedings of a Parmalat subsidiary in Ireland, Eurofood. Control of winding-up this financing company for the Parmalat group has been claimed by both Italian and Irish courts and the ECJ was asked about how European law affects the choice of jurisdiction over such matters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) political leaders have agreed medium-term (2007-13) budgets for crucial spending projects for the energy sector: Trans European Networks (TENs) and the EU seventh framework programme (FP7) for research. On TENs, the European Parliament, Commission, and EU Council of Ministers have agreed a Euro 7.2 billion budget, Euro 500 million above previous drafts, although this will have to be split with TENs transport projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A BID by the Spanish government to secure more North Sea and Baltic Sea access rights for its fishermen has been thrown out by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). After Spain joined the European Union in 1986, it was given some special transitional access to these waters (from 1996), but these expired in 2002, leaving Spanish vessels – claimed Madrid – with unfairly limited quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that efforts to squeeze Ireland-based creditors from Bank of America-inspired insolvency proceedings of a Dublin-based subsidiary of Italian food giant Parmalat could be blocked by the Irish courts. Although the ECJ ruling in principle also confirms the theoretical rights of Italian liquidators to have a role – noting that "the right of creditors or their representatives to participate" in insolvency proceedings "is of particular importance" – the effect in this case will be to guarantee the rights of a publicly appointed liquidator in Ireland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to comply with a year 2000 European Union (EU) directive imposing limits on working time in the civil aviation sector. This enshrined in law an agreement struck by the Association of European Airlines (AEA), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), the European Cockpit Association (ECA), the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) and the International Air Carrier Association (IACA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled imminent plans to abolish the European Union (EU) system of pre-financing export refunds for food, widely used in the past to manipulate EU beef sales. Because of this, EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel has told the EU Council of Ministers that the system would be replaced with direct beef export controls.…