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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) product safety network RAPEX has reported a series of EU market withdrawals of personal care products because they contain substances banned under the EU cosmetics directive:

*Estonia banned two lines of Turkish nail polish Mirra lux for including dibutyl phthalate (6.17% by weight);

*Ivory Coast-made whitening cream Lightening Beauty Crème has been withdrawn from the Irish market for containing hydroquinone (3.8%); and

*Portugal has blocked the sale of Italian hair colouring cream Color Contrast for containing the banned substance m-phenylenediamine.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY

GONE are the days of the disgruntled, Soviet style Baltic States truck driver, more interested in taking time off than pushing for more deliveries. Since the fall off communism and the coming of independence to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, a new breed of truckers has come on to the scene, with new trucks and more ambitious attitudes, including the desire to drive west.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FORMAL negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Russia over renewing the 1997 partnership and cooperation agreement between them are under way at last: formal talks started in Brussels on July 4, following a successful EU-Russia summit at the Siberian oil town of Khanty-Mansiysk..…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to protect three traditionally made Polish meads from being copied by drinks manufacturers based outside the regions where they have historically been made. Brussels has added these products to its protected geographical indication lists preventing such copies being sold in the European Union (EU): Czwórniak, Dwójniak, Pó?torak…

By Alan Osborn

The European Parliament is pushing for an outright ban on the commercialisation of the cloning of animals, heading off potentially lucrative research revenue for universities.

It has voted overwhelmingly for a legislative amendment within European Union (EU) legislation to ban cloning animals for economic reasons, preventing their use for manufacturing meat, dairy foods, fibres and skins for clothing and textiles, medicine and other industries.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

THE SUDDEN and phenomenal rise in the cost of raw materials over the past year for the US$2.6 billion Indian paint and coating industry has made business conditions tough for this formerly thriving sector. It is unlikely sustain the 18% growth rate achieved last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved Euro 84.1 million subsidies from the Polish government for constructing a new airport at Lublin, eastern Poland. The state aid – deemed legal by Brussels June 4 on regional development grounds – will help purchase the airport site, then build a terminal, runway and aircraft taxiways.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ENVIRONMENTAL impact of the proposed Russia-to-Germany Baltic Sea pipeline should be "carefully investigated" and alternative overland routes considered first, the European Parliament petitions committee has said. Responding to concerns of Polish and Lithuanian environmentalists, the committee concluded if an undersea Nord Stream pipeline did pose real and serious environmental risk, EU institutions and member states should "use every legal means" to prevent its construction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pushing for an outright ban on the commercialisation of the cloning of animals, preventing their use for meat, as well as dairy and other livestock by-products. It has voted overwhelmingly for an amendment within European Union (EU) legislation to ban cloning animals for economic reasons.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for a legislative amendment within European Union legislation to ban cloning animals for economic reasons, preventing their use for meat and dairy products. "It’s degrading to animals and causes suffering. Animals are sentient beings and should be treated with respect.…