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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission report has predicted pig production will decrease by 0.6% across the European Union (EU) this year, compared with 2004. Changes vary widely amongst member states, however, from down 9.4% in Hungary and 8.2% in Slovakia to up 12.8% in Estonia and 6.1% in the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 26.1 million on 26 programmes promoting the sale within the EU of organic food products, olive oil, milk and cheese, ham, fruit and vegetables, plus some drinks products. There will be matching funding from participating countries Britain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European Commission report has raised concerns that while efforts are being made by European Union (EU) institutions, not enough done to raise people in work out of poverty. It says that while “low pay is obviously an important risk factor…being low-skilled and remaining in unstable and often part-time employment, can also lead to poverty”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HEAVY fine levied by the European Commission on Germany’s SGL Carbon for participating in a cartel on the speciality graphite market has been reduced from Euro 27.75 million to Euro 18.45 million. Following an appeal against the fine, the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has confirmed that SGL and three other companies should be fined for market fixing; however, it said Brussels’ “was manifestly incorrect” when calculating the German company’s fines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ACQUISITION of sole control of fresh yeast, dry yeast and related bread ingredients producer DSM Bakery Ingredients by Gilde Buy-Out Fund II, of the Netherlands, from fellow Dutch company Royal DSM NV, has been approved without strings by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for the “reinforcement” of European Union (EU) standards for ramp inspections of non-EU aircraft calling at EU airports. The idea, said EASA, was “that the same procedures are applied throughout the EU in a transparent and harmonised manner”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HEAVYWEIGHT European international consortium will spend Euro 20 million on trying to develop commercially-viable flat plastic light sources, that could be moulded to fit spaces in homes and offices. The OLLA project (‘high brightness Organic Light-emitting diodes for information technology and Lighting Applications’) aims to build on basic research into these materials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal investigation into a planned Euro 7.425 million-subsidy package planned by the Dutch government into its country’s malt sector. The money would help establish a malt production plant in Eemshaven, in the Netherlands’ roningen province.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the sale of joint control of Netherlands-based confectionary producer Leaf International BV to Nordic Capital Fund of Jersey by international investment group CVC European Equity Partners.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN IN-DEPTH world analysis has concluded that although nurses taking on doctors’ duties provide a high quality care, they may neither save health care costs nor reduce a doctor’s workload.

The assessment for the UK-based Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews probed 16 studies involving more than 25,000 patients in Britain, the United States and Canada.…