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BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW fuel quality standards for vehicles sold in the European Union (EU) from 2008 have been published by the European Commission, which will stop sports utility vehicles (SUVs) operating under laxer emissions rules applying to commercial vans. Instead, under the so-called Euro 5 plan, they would follow tougher regulations for cars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALIAN researchers have developed a new technique for producing hydrogen whilst purifying polluted gases. Coordinated by the University of Trieste, the team has found that cerium oxide, a pale yellow-white powder used in ceramics and to polish glass, can be used to store or release oxygen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the takeover by Swiss food packaging giant Tetra Laval of Italian food and drink filling and packaging company SIG Simonazzi, without imposing conditions. This follows a Brussels investigation focusing on the potential competition problems caused through their joint interests in aseptic PET and HDPE plastic packaging filling machines and non-aseptic PET filling machines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the erection of anti-dumping duties on USA exports of grain oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel and the widening of existing duties on the same Russian products to all grades.

This follows a Brussels investigation sparked by a dumping complaint by Eurofer, the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY has become the fourth European Union (EU) country this year to press the European Commission to allow crisis distillation to deal with a major wine grape surplus, warning the situation is so serious, riots could erupt in wine-growing areas.…

From Alan Osborn
An acquisition by the 3I Group plc of joint control of the Italian toy retailer Giochi Preziosi has been approved by the European Commission which said it saw no violation of EU competition regulations. 3I Group, an international venture capital company, will share control with Fingiochi, the present controlling shareholder of Giochi Preziosi which besides the wholesale and retail of toys is also active in the retailing of Christmas decorations, shoes, stationery products, confectionery, baby products and promotional gadgets in Italy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has thrown out a bid by Italy’s Canal SpA to block the European Union (EU)-wide registration by the New York-based Canal Jean Co Inc of its trademark ‘Canal Jean Co’.…

Keith Nuthall
ITALY has become the fourth European Union (EU) country this year to press the European Commission to allow crisis distillation to deal with a major wine grape surplus. Speaking at this week’s EU Council of Ministers, agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel “acknowledged the serious situation of the sector”, but would not yet agree, saying the “request was still under thorough examination”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government’s 1990’s injection of Euro 54.3 million to its national beef sector has been approved as complying with European Union (EU) state aid rules by the European Commission, which was considering whether to order their repayment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has started moving against established rich member states of the European Union (EU) who prevent citizens of the 10 new EU countries exercising their rights to work across Europe. It has formally requested that the Netherlands reviews rules often insisting employers secure working permits for staff temporarily posted from these eastern and southern EU countries.…