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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PROPOSED liberalisation of European Union (EU) design rights legislation, allowing lorry parts makers to copy and sell spares already made by vehicle manufacturers across the EU has been accepted by the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee. A committee communiqué said: "The directive will allow suppliers to produce motor vehicle components which are identical to the original parts without infringing design protection."…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Paris

AUTO manufacturers in Europe are calling for greater support from national governments and European Union (EU) institutions in promoting eco-driving – where good motoring styles are adopted which reduce the greenhouse gas and other polluting emissions from vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TACOGRAPH spotchecks by British highways officials and police have revealed continental van and lorry drivers are far more likely to break European Union (EU) working time rules on UK roads than Britons. Looking at newest available EU-wide comparative data 27,418 of offenders detected in 2004-4 on British highways were UK citizens, while 11,565 were from the much smaller pool of drivers from other EU member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MANY European academics and experts in the study of commercial crime are more than happy to discuss the state of play in the sector in an informal way with outsiders; others may be a little more cautious. But all are likely to suggest ways to gain further assistance.…

THE DEPENDENCE of the European Union (EU) on gas from Russia has been made starkly clear by the latest detailed trade figures released by EU statistical agency Eurostat – 42% of imported natural gas came was Russian in 2005. This 4.9 million terajoules compared with 2.6 million terajoules (22%) from Norway; 2.2 million terajoules from Algeria (19%) and 1.9 million from other sources (17%).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to postpone by 10 days – until October 31 – its competition regulatory decision on the proposed take-over by the French company Danone of the Netherlands firm Numica. This is in order to "market test" commitments given by the two companies, a spokeswoman for the Commission’s competition directorate told just-food.com.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal rules that insist European Union (EU) students wanting to study in a foreign EU state must continue a course subject they have already begun in their home country, if they want to receive a grant from the government of the country where they normally live.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ITALIAN government has been told to secure a levy of Euro 176 million from its dairy producers after allowing them to flood the European Union (EU) market with 617,000 tonnes of excess milk in 2006/7. The penalty was ordered by the European Commission under a system of national milk production quotas, to be scrapped by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has secured approval for new European Union (EU) legislation that will force EU member states to improve their surveillance, monitoring and publicity regarding cases of bluetongue. With the disease rampaging across northwestern Europe, the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health have agreed to make monitoring compulsory in all infected countries, while bluetongue-free member states must undertake "surveillance proportionate to the risk".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 200 million to Urenco Ltd for expanding two uranium enrichment plants in Britain and the Netherlands. The money will help the company install new centrifuge cascades in both plants. Said an EIB memorandum: "This project forms part of the company’s medium-term investment programme, meeting global uranium enrichment demand by the use of Urenco’s world-leading energy-efficient technology."…