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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered that a chemical used by the cosmetics industry to make nail polish – diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP) – be only used in the European Union with specific permission from the European Chemicals Agency. The plasticiser is such a health risk, it will be controlled by ECHA’s special authorisation process, under EU chemical control system REACH.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has for the first time protected a traditional food product from being copied outside its home region which has historically been made in two countries. This groundbreaking protected designation of origin (PDO) and geographical indication has been awarded to a honey made in Poland and Lithuania: called Miód z Sejne?szczyny/?o?dziejszczyzny…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is coming under pressure to act against child labour in the global cocoa sector, with proposals being debated at the European Parliament to track cocoa produced with the help of children. That could mean an EU law creating a monitoring system making it clear to consumers where cocoa products risked being tainted by child labour, maybe through the "possible introduction of ‘child-labour free’ product labelling," said a draft report from the EP’s international trade committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FUTURE of the natural gas sector is guaranteed in any viable European Union (EU) energy mix, the European Commission has said in a major policy paper. In its ‘Energy Road Map 2050’, Brussels argues that gas is the relatively clean fuel that will buy the EU time to adopt new energy technologies.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A POLISH beverage company has been banned from trade marking its energy and alcoholic drinks under its name Viaguara, after the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) General Court ruled Wednesday the name was too similar to anti-impotence drug Viagra.…

BY MARK ROWE, IN LONDON; ZLATKO CONKAS, IN NOVI SAD, SERBIA; MIKE STEIN, IN PRAGUE; AND BLAKE BERRY, IN WARSAW

DURING the spring of 2011, the prevailing view throughout eastern Europe’s personal care and toiletries market was that while business was not exactly buoyant, the worst of the recession was over – then came the credit crises and the faltering Euro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is coming under pressure to toughen its action against high mobile roaming charges, as its latest proposals are debated at the European Parliament.

MEPs want the Commission to go further in its action to foist more competition on the roaming market while capping bills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EU food producers organisation COPA-COGECA has welcomed the likely accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), following a weekend deal over membership struck with Georgia over the weekend. This was the last key obstacle preventing Russia joining the WTO, hopefully at a Geneva ministerial meeting, December 15-17.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

EUROPEAN energy ministers meeting in Brussels have declared they were less than satisfied with rigid efficiency targets contained within the European Commission’s proposed energy efficiency directive.

Poland, which currently holds the EU presidency, presented a progress report at the meeting of the EU Council of Ministers (Nov 27) for energy on the work done over the past several months on a draft directive concerning energy efficiency.…

BY DAVID HAYHURST

HOPES and expectations run high among leading European green energy lobbyists and environmentalist ahead of Denmark’s assumption of the presidency of the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers for six months from in January.

The country is a world leader in wind energy, a long-time proponent of other renewables, a founding member of the North Seas Offshore Grid Initiative (NSOGI), and a trailblazer in electric vehicle (EV) use and infrastructural investment.…