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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out a bid by Dutch livestock producers for restrictions to be imposed on national health authorities over their tactics to fight foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks. The plaintiffs had claimed that European Union (EU) directive 85/511 imposed limits on the “power to order the slaughter of animals belonging to a holding adjacent to or within a specific radius of a holding containing infected animals”.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS and entertainment industries thirst for sponsorship, and with the ever-growing boom in televising sporting events worldwide via satellite, the chance to expose a drinks company logo to world audiences in their billions should make sponsorship a sellers’ market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of major European plastics producers have promised to abide by an internationally recognised standard when manufacturing biodegradable plastics, to minimise their environmental impact. Germany’s BASF, the USA’s Cargill Dow, Italy’s Novamont and the Netherlands’ Rodenburg Biopolymers and others, supplying 90% of the EU biodegradable plastics market, made the pledge in a voluntary agreement with the European Commission.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
DO product and food alerts work? For consumer safety, it is essential that they do, but the global nature of today’s markets means that the recall net has to be cast over a vastly wider area than in the past.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accused nine European Union (EU) governments of dragging their feet over promoting biofuels in their countries. It has sent critical formal notices to Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Slovenia accusing them of failing to submit national reports framing 2005 targets for biofuel consumption, as required under the Biofuels Directive.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of major European plastics producers have promised to abide by an internationally recognised standard when manufacturing biodegradable plastics, to minimise their environmental impact. Germany’s BASF, the USA’s Cargill Dow, Italy’s Novamont and the Netherlands’ Rodenburg Biopolymers and others, supplying 90% of the EU biodegradable plastics market, made the pledge in a voluntary agreement with the European Commission.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS government has shown how rich countries can fulfil their Kyoto Protocol commitments by promoting the overseas development of efficient green energy production, claimed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The Dutch are funding a Euro 5 million conversion of a Bulgarian paper mill from generating energy via oil and gas to biomass via the EBRD-managed Euro 32 million Netherlands Emissions Reduction Co-operation Fund.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover of Italian copper production holding company Generale Industrie Metallurgiche SpA (GIM), of Italy, by Milan-based finance house INTEK SpA, which is controlled by Quattroduedue Holding BV, of the Netherlands. GIM companies produce and distribute copper and copper alloy products, operating 18 production plants located in Britain, Italy, Germany, Spain and China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined three companies Euro 216.91 million for operating a cartel for monochloroacetic acid, a food thickener: the Netherlands’ Akzo Nobel; France’s Atofina – now Arkema; and Germany’s Hoechst.…