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BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, and MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

WITH a new crackdown on counterfeiting being prepared by the

European Commission, some industry watchers will be surprised to hear that soft drinks is one the sectors that Brussels thinks needs close attention.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has been given permission by the European Commission to extend its Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme, which supplies GBPounds 17 million a year in grants to encourage the development and take-up of energy efficient and low carbon technologies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE TOTAL phasing out of nuclear energy being carried out by a number of EU countries is not justified according to the EU’s internal market commissioner Frits Bolkestein (CORRECT SPELLING). In a speech headed “Nuclear energy needed more than ever” given to the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, Mr Bolkestein said nuclear energy provided the technical capacity to increase energy diversification which was needed to reduce external dependence.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE has launched a 10-year strategy called “London Plus” with the aim of becoming a leading global integrated logistics hub offering aviation, maritime and land transport expertise. The country’s Economic Review Committee says Singapore should cut airport landing and parking charges at Changi airport and also recommends that special customs treatment for cargo at the airport’s free trade zone be extended to allow logistics companies to handle cargo outside these zones.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOVE of the secretariat of the International Cocoa Organisation to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from London, has been postponed because of the political and military turmoil in the country. The decision to go ahead with the move had only been taken this May.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has been given permission by the European Commission to extend its Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme, which supplies GBPounds 17 million a year in grants to encourage the development and take-up of energy efficient and low carbon technologies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRUSSELS is set to crack down on Britain’s handling of tobacco excise duty cases where travellers from other EU Member States are accused and sanctioned for allegedly violating the “personal consumption” limit. The European Commission says it has questions about “a presumption that the goods are being imported for commercial use and concerning the vehicle seizure policy being applied by customs officers.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN may face an action in the European Court of Justice over its tough customs policy over the import of excised drinks from other EU Member States, the European Commission said today (Wednesday). The Commission said it was “concerned” that the controls currently being applied at UK ports, and the sanctions imposed when UK excise duty laws were broken, ” may breach the EU rules which give travellers the right to shop abroad.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Union’s LIFE-Environment programme has selected six British projects for grants under its latest allocation of 69 million euros (pounds 43 million). Altogether 109 projects in the EU countries are being supported, mostly in water resource management.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has significantly watered down its proposed

directive on prospectuses following intense lobbying by the financial services industry, the European Parliament and some Member States including Britain. The main change announced today (Friday) is to exempt small and medium-sized companies from the obligation to publish a draft prospectus if their public offering is Euro 2.5 million (Pounds 1.55 million) or less.…