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BY ALAN OSBORN
SPURRED by the recent OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) report on terrorism risk cover, insurers have begun to wonder about the optimum pattern for cover in this highly unpredictable sector with its potential for catastrophic losses.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S coming up to 18 months since the French tobacco industry was hit by the last of a triple whammy of excise tax increases over a single year and it seems a reasonable moment to take stock. The three tax increases – 10% in January 2003, 20% in November 2003 and 10% in January 2004 – were part of a health drive by Jacques Chirac’s government, worried by the continued popularity of smoking among young people among other things.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend Euro 26.1 million on 26 programmes promoting the sale within the EU of organic food products, olive oil, milk and cheese, ham, fruit and vegetables, plus some drinks products. There will be matching funding from participating countries Britain, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of a fishing agreement that will give 40 European Union (EU) tuna seiners and 17 surface longliners access to the Indian Ocean waters off the Comoros archipelago. Asking EU ministers to approve the deal, Brussels said it would cover an annual catch of 6,000 tonnes of tuna in Comoros waters until December 2010.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
USING hair dyes does not cause cancer, according to an assessment of 79 hair-dye studies conducted in 11 countries, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Scientists from around the world found there was no evidence that personal hair-dye users were at increased risk of breast or bladder cancer, although they discovered a “borderline effect” for haematopoietic cancers, such as leukaemia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLANS to build Europe’s first large-scale commercial thermal solar power plant in Spain are to attract a Euro 225 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The money will be lent to developer

Andasol-1 Central Termosolar Uno SA, for building a 50 MWe plamt, 60 km southeast of Granada.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ACCORDING to global consumption figures, Israel is the world capital of teenage soft drink demand, with hot weather combined with a competitive market to create something of a utopia for drinks companies. An international survey of soft drinks consumption published by the Economist by 15 year olds of both sexes suggests that Israel has the world’s biggest teenage consumers of carbonated and still drinks, colas, sodas, juices and the like on a per capita basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is demanding the recovery of Euro 277.25 million in illegally paid European Union farm subsidies. Notably, Brussels demanded Spain order the repayment of Euro 134.48 paid to flax and hemp growers from 1996 to 2000, following “major shortcomings in the control system and general fraud”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is staging an investigation into the toxicity of the food dye ‘para Red’ (p-Red), supported by the development of analytical methods by laboratories from Britain, the Netherlands, France and Spain. The data will help set an EU maximum contamination level.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance has approved a bid by Italian chemical company Faber Chimica to secure European Union trademark rights to the brand ‘Faber’. It wants the mark for products including soaps, perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics and hair lotions.…