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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DUTCH scientists have shown that bird flu vaccines could effectively halt the disease’s spread, as well as providing protection to individual vaccinated poultry. Tests carried out by the Central Institute for Animal Disease Control in Leystad, and Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands showed that two weeks after vaccination, two vaccines could "completely block the spread of the disease".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COSMETICS and soap trademark holders must be able to prove they are acting on firm knowledge when insisting a consignment of their products owned by a third party be blocked over concerns that they are counterfeit, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) regulation (1423/95) has been declared invalid by the European Court of Justice, because it allows the imposition of additional second duties on sugar imports, except molasses.

ENDS…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Court of Justice advocate general Francis Jacobs has advised that where consumers buy alcohol in a foreign European Union (EU) country, and arrange for drinks to be transported to their home EU state, only the excise duty originally paid is due.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has signalled a retreat from commercial reinsurance by allowing the Netherlands to offer annual state guarantees of Euro 150 million for its international development projects, the first time a member state has reinsured MIGA for projects involving its national companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH government has been told by the European Court of Justice to scrap rules insisting exporters from other European Union (EU) member countries wanting to sell foodstuffs with additional vitamins or mineral salts first prove they meet a “nutritional need” and do not risk public health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GRANTS worth Euro 1.35 million have been awarded by the Dutch government to fund two new research centres carrying out multidisciplinary studies into the prevention, management and treatment of infectious diseases in the Netherlands and developing countries. The centres will be virtual institutions, recruiting researchers from around the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition by Dutch veal and calf producer Van Drie of calf-feed specialist Schils, also of the Netherlands, which focuses on dry dairy feed calf-milk replacers. Although Brussels accepted the merged company would command influence in European feed and slaughtering markets, it concluded there was sufficient competition to allow the take-over.…

Keith Nuthall
CIVIL unrest could be sparked in smaller developing countries next year by the abolition of World Trade Organisation (WTO) textile trade quotas and resulting loss of export markets to Chinese competition, new European Union

(EU) trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL governments are often jealous of attempts by the European Union (EU) to increase its power into policy areas that they consider none of its business. Defence and foreign affairs are obvious examples, but health is another. EU member states have long resisted Brussels’ calls for influence over their health policies, but their resolve has weakened of late.…