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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that any national ban on the Internet sale of non-prescription medicines would break European Union freedom of business laws. It has intervened in a bid by German pharmacies association Deutsche Apothekerverband to stop the operation of Dutch pharmacy DocMorris, which from June 2000 has sold medicines on the web to customers in Germany and the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF has told of the uncovering of a Baltic State centred cigarette smuggling ring. OLAF’s 2002-3 annual report said this May police arrested 10 people and seized millions of counterfeit cigarettes. The ring was selling fake British brands, made and packaged by an illicit tobacco production plant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has performed a U-turn and has asked European Union (EU) ministers to extend for two years a pilot scheme allowing Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Greece to continue levying reduced VAT rates (of six per cent and eight per cent for Greece) on small services for repairing and altering household linen, and clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to clear legal logjams preventing companies with share capital from different European Union (EU) Member States from merging, transactions that are illegal in the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Greece, Germany, Finland, Denmark and Austria.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has said that Adidas can only prevent rivals using variations of its vertical stripes symbol by proving that consumers associate its mark with those used by other companies. If consumers view rival symbols “purely as an embellishment”, Adidas cannot use its trademark rights to suppress them, the ECJ said, intervening in a Netherlands case involving Fitnessworld Trading Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCANDINAVIA dominates the top rankings of a new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) global index on information and communication technology (ICT) access, with Sweden, Denmark and Iceland scoring the highest marks. The ITU says that the league table distinguishes itself from other indices by including new variables, such as education and affordability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been negotiated between the European Commission and the United States that should create common pre-shipment clearance shipments for goods shipped between the European Union (EU) and the US. If EU ministers agree, it would tell European and American exporters to provide sufficient information about goods to allow “sophisticated targeting” of security checks, prior to shipping.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has secured the help of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to reduce its greenhouse gas emission targets by investing in eastern European projects aimed at fighting global warming. The bank and the Dutch government are creating a carbon fund, which will draw on Euro 32 million of Netherlands’ funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been negotiated between the European Commission and the United States that should create common pre-shipment clearance shipments for goods shipped between the European Union (EU) and the US. If EU ministers agree, it would tell European and American exporters to provide sufficient information about goods to allow “sophisticated targeting” of security checks, prior to shipping.…