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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of baker’s yeast production facilities from GBI, of the Netherlands, by Britain’s Associated British Foods (ABF). Brussels approved the deal after ABF promised to offload GBI yeast businesses in Spain and Portugal to allay competition concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD must generate half its electricity supplies from renewable energy sources by 2050 to avoid the most serious climate change, claims a new International Energy Agency report. It praises renewable programmes in Spain, Germany, Denmark and Portugal (wind-power) and China (solar heating).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

About 10 years ago the American distiller JB Wagoner decided to market a fiery liquor made from the cactus-like agave plants growing in the hills on his estate at Temecula in California. He called it "temequila." It soon became known as "the American tequila," proving indistinguishable in taste, texture and effect from the well-known Mexican drink.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OLD 15 member European Union (EU) will hit its Kyoto Protocol collective target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 8% for the period 2008-2012 from 1990 levels, but only by financing pollution cuts in poor countries abroad.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) third money laundering directive should have been transposed into national legislation by December last year across the EU. But some EU member states and professional organisations have found its provisions difficult, particularly the introduction of a risk-based approach to the application of anti money laundering disciplines.…

BY ANDREW CAVE and KARRYN MILLER

FACING a looming energy crisis, the battle to produce lithium ion batteries to power hybrid and battery cars is heating up. Germany’s Robert Bosch and Samsung of South Korea recently formed a joint venture SB LiMotive Co to compete with the likes of BorgWarner, Johnson Controls, TRW and Continental.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project has been launched to prevent allergic reactions to wine, by finding alternatives to sulphur dioxide – widely used by the industry to prevent micro-biological damage to taste and colour.

Organised under the umbrella of EU research network Eureka, wine industry specialists are testing a variety of alternative substances and treatments to reduce the amount of sulphites in wines, which are regarded as an allergen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SOME of Europe’s largest companies – including fuel majors – have been fined heavily for participating in a paraffin wax cartel, raising the cost of this key input for tyre and car component manufacturers. Sasol, Total, ExxonMobil and six others have been fined a total of Euro 676 million for participating in what has been branded the "paraffin wax mafia".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of baker’s yeast production facilities from GBI, of the Netherlands, by Britain’s Associated British Foods (ABF). Brussels approved the deal after ABF promised to offload GBI yeast businesses in Spain and Portugal to allay competition concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

ONE of the more colourful (and thankfully less deadly) aspects of Russia’s mini-war with Georgia in August was the simultaneous attach by hackers on Georgian Internet sites, especially those of its government.,

Ones of these were crashed by ‘denial of service’ attacks, where masses of data are sent to particular sites until they cannot handle the megabytes and closedown.…