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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY cemented its position last year as European Union (EU) wind power capacity leader, installing 2,233 MW in generation during 2006, raising total capacity to 20,621 MW, nearly twice as much as Spain, the second largest EU player, which also grew – by 1,587 MW to 11,615 MW.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has requested that a long-running case over the European Union (EU)-wide registration of a ‘lemoncello’ lemon peel liquor trademark should be returned to the ECJ’s Court of First Instance. Its judges have already overturned a decision by the EU trademark regulator the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) to refuse the registration of Italy’s Shaker di L.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and 10 other European Union (EU) member states have been attacked by an unusual alliance of electrical goods manufacturers and environmentalists who allege they have failed to properly implement the EU WEEE directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPAIN’S wine-making province La Rioja is heading a Spanish team tasked with helping the Serbia agriculture ministry resurrect a once thriving local wine industry. The European Agency for Reconstruction-managed Euro 1.4 million project will improve quality assurance and vineyard registration and classification.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has unveiled further data underlining the risk to human health posed by widespread contamination of broiler chicken flocks across Europe with the pathogen salmonella. In its latest figures, which back earlier alarming data about salmonella contamination within egg production systems, EFSA said that in 2005-6, almost a quarter – 23.7% – of EU broiler (meat) flocks were contaminated with salmonella.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot has sufficiently worried the EU Council of Ministers about the shaky future of EU global positioning satellite network Galileo that ministers have requested a long-term financing plan. This will be written by the European Commission while concession negotiations continue between the bidding consortium and Galileo’s GNSS Supervisory Authority over the division of work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPAIN is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission, which is seeking an order outlawing Spanish regulations insisting foods containing plant extracts such as guaraná, ginseng, espirulina and passiflore be authorised as medicines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPAIN is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over Spanish regulations insisting foods containing plant extracts such as guaraná, ginseng, espirulina and passiflore be authorised as medicines. Applications are long and complex process, breaking European Union free trade rules alleges Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out the blocking of the European Union-wide registration by Spain’s Bodegas Franco-Españolas of the ROYAL trademark for Rioja wines, overturning a decision by EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) – OHIM.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FURTHER details of an important European Union (EU) fishing access deal with Madagascar lasting until 2012 have been released as the European Commission asks EU ministers to formally approve the agreement. Papers released by Brussels show that as well as 44 freezer tuna seiners, and 44 surface longliners, five French vessels may carry out exploratory line or bottom longline fishing for demersal species over two six-month periods.…