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BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPANISH steel producer Acerinox is likely to lose a final appeal against European Union (EU) rulings that it took part in a cartel in Spain’s market for stainless steel. An advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recommended that ECJ judges back the junior European Court of First Instance’s insistence that Acerinox took part in market fixing with Germany’s ThyssenKrupp and others.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has overturned a European Commission order that Spanish synthetic fibres producer Sniace SA, of Cantabria, repay state aid of Pesetas 8 billion (Euro 48 million) it received in the 1990’s. This was paid via the rescheduling of debts to Spain’s social security fund and de facto low interest loans from its wage guarantee fund Fogasa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUNISHING fines have been imposed by the European Commission on Spanish and Italian tobacco processors for operating a pricing and purchasing cartel between 1996 and 2001. Brussels has slammed Italy’s Deltafina with a Euro 11.8 million fine, as cartel leader and the main buyer of tobacco grown in Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S performance in reducing heart disease deaths could be much improved compared with many of its European Union (EU) partners, a new World Health Organisation heart disease atlas, has shown.

Dividing a country’s annual deaths from heart disease with its population, saturated fats and beer loving Britain had a comparative factor of 2, based on 120,530 deaths in 2002 amongst a population of 59 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has formally requested that a second World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel is set up to adjudicate in its long running row with the US over its assessment of benefits enjoyed by privatised steel companies from past public subsidies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the purchase from French company Alliance Agroalimentaire of Spanish dairy product companies Grupo el Prado Cervera and Central Lechera Vallisoletana (CLV) by rival Lactalis Iberia, also of Spain, (owned by Belgian holding company BSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from market analysts IDC has revealed 37% of business programmes used in the EU are pirated. The study, involving 5,600 interviews, identified Greece as having the worst problem, with 63% of business software being pirated, followed by Poland and Lithuania (58%), Latvia (57%) and Estonia 54%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) is developing a service that could save the insurance industry expensive shipwreck policy payouts, updating coastal maritime maps from space. The Euro 1 million Coastchart project aims at improving charts of shifting sand, mud and gravel-banks that can move 100’s of metres annually.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has announced plans to lend millions of Euros to build combined cycle gas power plants in Italy and Spain. It wants to lend up to Euro 200 million to municipal utility ASM Brescia SpA, to build a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant at Gissi, in Lombardy, northern Italy, and convert a nearby oil-fired electricity generating plant at Ponti sul Mincio to CCGT.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
YOUNG people in Britain are more than twice as likely to die in road accidents between 10.00 pm and 2.00 am Friday to Saturday and during

the same hours Saturday to Sunday than at any other time of the week

according to figures released by the European Environmental Agency (EEA).…