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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A THREATENED censure by the Council of Europe against the notorious inefficiency of the Italian judicial system has been postponed, because the Italian government has failed to promptly supply a report on the problem. Ignoring the obvious irony, the council’s Committee of the Ministers has delayed until June a “thorough examination” of measures required to speed up Italian justice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended the abolition of a European Union (EU) rule insisting that feed manufacturers disclose on demand to their customers their exact ingredient formulae. Antonio Tizzano said that this element of directive 2002/2/EC on compound feeding-stuffs would cause “serious prejudice” to manufacturers’ businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has rejected a bid by Spain’s Duarte y Beltrán SA to secure European Union (EU)-wide trademark rights to sell cosmetics, soaps and perfumes under the brand ‘INTEA’. Judges backed the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trademarks and Designs) -OHIM – in supporting the complaint of Italian rival Mirato SpA.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE YEAR 2007 will be a significant one for Romania. It is the year that the country is scheduled to join the European Union (EU); it is also the year that Romania’s second nuclear power unit is expected to come on line.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice is expected to reject a claim by nine Italian and one British banana importers that the European Commission should have allowed them to use licences to import African, Caribbean, Pacific bananas to sell bananas from other countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN and Luxembourg governments will face legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) aimed at forcing them to authorised royalties to authors when their books are borrowed from libraries. The European Commission alleges by not doing so, such payments break the 1992 European Union (EU) directive on rental rights and copyright.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN and Italian subsidiaries of US fruit giant Dole, (Dole Fresh Fruit Europe and Comafrica SpA) have lost European Court of Justice bids to secure damage against the European Commission over its assistance to Caribbean banana producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro millions over the next three years promoting French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Austrian wines in key foreign markets. Announcing the latest of a series of such grants, (matched by national funding), Brussels noted that the main targets would be north America, China, Russia, India, Japan and non-European Union countries in central and eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN consortium claims to have successfully developed a mobile and self-erecting crane, “to create a single crane that can do the work of five”. The six participating Belgian, German, Italian and Dutch companies – linked under the banner of European research network Eureka – say the crane “features an anti-sway device which makes it safer as well as more efficient”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE VISION of a Europe where police and prosecutors can effectively pursue cross-border investigations was framed at a special European Union (EU) summit in Finland in late 1999. Five years on, institutions are giving this idea substance. Keith Nuthall reports.…