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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOTHING manufacturers without trademark rights to a brand in a particular European Union (EU) country, cannot rely on such rights in another EU state to prevent rivals transporting goods carrying this mark: this principle has been recommended to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by an ECJ advocate general saying "in the absence of uncertainty" that rival manufacturers will not sell such brands in the transit country, EU law stops original manufacturers using local trademark rights to block transports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has demanded that the Polish government reforms a sliding scale determining the cost of original registration fees for cars, that hinders fleet managers’ sale of used vehicles. This rate depends on the age of the car, so new cars – made in or imported immediately into Poland – attract the lowest fees, and cars imported into the country when old incur the highest fees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FUTURE of Polish zinc-lead smelter Huta Cynku Miasteczko ?l?skie (HCM) has been thrown into doubt, with the European Commission launching a "detailed investigation" into whether Euro 5.5 million planned Polish government subsidies are illegal.

In reality, Brussels has already largely concluded that they break European Union (EU) state aid rules preventing governments giving their companies unfair advantages in the EU marketplace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TV dinners should be quick to prepare, and now a European research project has developed software speeding-up the design of ready-meals. Computer programmes created by Swedish and Polish scientists in the Eureka network, will help instant meal manufacturers assess how their products defrost and cook in microwaves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LIVESTOCK and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland will benefit from the latest European Commission grants for promoting food sales within the EU. Brussels will subsidise a Northern Irish meat marketing and information campaign with Euro 207,365 over one year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOTHING manufacturers without trademark rights to a brand in a particular European Union (EU) country, cannot rely on such rights in another EU state to prevent rivals transporting goods carrying this mark: this principle has been recommended to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by an ECJ advocate general saying "in the absence of uncertainty" that rival manufacturers will not sell such brands in the transit country, EU law stops original manufacturers using local trademark rights to block transports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLOTHING manufacturers without trademark rights to a brand in a particular European Union (EU) country, cannot rely on such rights in another EU state to prevent a rival transporting goods carrying this mark across its territory. This legal principle has been recommended for adoption by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by an ECJ advocate general, who has said that "in the absence of uncertainty" that the rival manufacturer has no plans to sell such branded clothing in the transit country, EU law does not allow an original manufacturer to use local trademark rights to block such transports.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WELSH sustainable energy firm has proved ‘where there’s muck there’s brass’ by helping build a heat generator for Polish cities, running on sewage sludge. Sustainable energy consultancy ETP Ltd, of Cardiff, worked with Polish manufacturer ABM Solid, of Tarnow, to build a ‘fluidised bed boiler’ heating a wastewater treatment plant at Poland’s Niepolomice.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN the space of less than three years the German cigarette market has gone from being Europe’s most stable, profitable and legislation-free into one beset by obstacles almost everywhere you look. In the words of an independent report just issued by the market number two British American Tobacco, the industry has "overnight….found…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRESIDENT of Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency Jerzy Niewodniczanski has told Polish paper Zycie Warszawy that his government was interested in cooperating in building and operating a multi-national nuclear power plant with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.…