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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has imposed anti-dumping duties on two (Polish and Ukraine) exporters of steel ropes and cables, backing European Commission claims they had broken undertakings made to legitimately avoid paying such tariffs. Poland’s Drumet and the Ukraine’s Silur will now pay anti-dumping duties of 27.9 per cent and 51.8 per cent respectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Duke Energy Corp, a diversified US energy company based in Charlotte, is in discussions with “several potential buyers” for its European natural gas business, the company has announced. It gave no details of the possible buyers or price.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to officially sanction previously agreed trade concessions for Polish confectionary exporters, until the eastern European country becomes a Member State next year. The European Commission has proposed that concessions – widening low or zero-rated import quotas for many Polish confectionary products and ingredients or removing quantitative restrictions altogether – are written into the existing EU-Poland association agreement.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-FERROUS metal producers in the existing 15 European Union (EU) countries could see some lowering of labour costs after enlargement of the EU next year as low-paid Polish and other workers move into the higher wage countries like Germany, according to industry sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEDICATED supplier distributor of electricity used by Poland’s national railway industry is likely to receive a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan to help it exploit the liberalisation of the Polish electricity industry. Bank officials are drawing up plans to lend Euro 15 million to PKP Energetyka, which it wants to spend on installing two control and metering centres.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN the days of the Soviet Union, many millions of men and women had a choice of one state-manufactured brand of shampoo, toothpaste or soap. If anything, the authorities managed to limit even further access to such “indulgences” as perfume.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) have invited applications for about 375 lawyer posts to help meet the demands imposed by next year’s enlargement of the EU from 15 to 25 countries which will add 75 million to the EU population.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an “audit culture” in the public administrations of the 10 eastern and southern European countries planning to join the European Union next May would help ease growing concerns in Brussels that would-be Member States are failing to meet EU financial probity standards, MEPs have heard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s funding institutions are increasingly financially assisting the former USSR’s oil industry. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$80 million loan to a key subsidiary of Russia’s Lukoil group – CSJC Lukoil-Perm – to help it cut gas flaring to 20 per cent by 2005, compared with 52 per cent at typical Russian oilfields.…