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BY MARK ROWE

NANOTECHNOLOGY, though in its infancy, is already having an influential bearing on the international drinks market. According to a study by consultant Helmut Kaiser, latest available figures indicate that worldwide sales of nanotechnology products to the food and beverage packaging sector jumped to US$860 million (Euro 687.5 million) in 2004 from US$150 million (Euro 120 million) in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers and the European Parliament have approved a new fishing agreement with Morocco, despite controversy over its covering waters off the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. The Polisario Liberation Front has since 1975 been fighting Morocco for self-determination over the largely desert territory.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

WIND power is Europe’s big growth area for electricity generation, according to the latest comparative figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat, with capacity growing by 154% between 2000 and 2004. Its report noted wind power "is responsible for more than half of the new generating capacity" in these years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE BROAD shape of the wine reform plan to be presented by the European Commission in June has become clearer following remarks by the European Union (EU) agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel in Spain this week (May 4).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ABSTRACT symbols used to market clothing must gain recognitions amongst consumers before being registered as a European Union (EU)-wide trademark, the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has concluded. Rejecting an application for the registration of a thick black longitudinal line ending in a triangle for clothing, footwear and headgear, especially sports footwear, the court said it needed to take into account "the share of market held by the mark, the intensity, the geographical extent and the working life of this mark, the importance of the investments made by the company".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN is one of only seven European countries that are fully complying with key guidelines on institutional oversight of financial information issued by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). Its standard No.1 advises on how the harmonisation of institutional oversight systems in Europe maybe achieved, especially regarding enforcement of good practice.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

ATTEMPTS to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRAZEN political manoeuvres to duck increased pollution clean-up costs imposed by the revised European Union (EU) bathing water directive have sparked 11 separate legal actions by the European Commission. It has reacted promptly to a massive delisting of 7,000 official bathing water sites by 11 EU governments, to avoid having to comply with new cleanliness standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHEFS know that to get the best out of a steak – it needs to be whacked with a hammer to tenderise it, making it more likely to soak up marinades and more delicate to the palate. Detectives know that softening up suspects with a good-cop, bad-cop routine will make them more pliant to questioning The same applies to treating cancer tumours: if you knock them around a bit first, they are less able to resist drugs designed – ultimately – to wipe them out.…

BY MARK ROWE

IF proof were needed that nanotechnology is more than an esoteric scientific discipline then it surely comes with the news that nanotech is about to come to a fast-food restaurant near you. Last month (March), OilFresh, a California-based company, commercially launched a nanotechnology-based frying oil in the United States.…