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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined 12 producers of animal feed phosphates Euro EUR175million for operating a cartel across Europe, inflating feed prices for livestock producers. Phosphates are widely used in feed, including for cattle, pigs and poultry. The Commission said the cartel covered "most of the EU" in sharing markets and fixing prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s proposals to allow European Union (EU) member states effective control over whether GM food should be grown in their countries have come under fire in the European Parliament. Its environment committee has debated the plans, with Portuguese green MEP Marisa Matias and others raising concerns national bans on products approved for cultivation across the EU may be vulnerable to legal challenges, perhaps at the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is considering major financing of up to Euro EUR200 million for upgrading and expanding Gran Canaria Airport, in Spain’s Canary Islands. It is Spain’s fifth largest airport, processing more than 9 million passengers in 2009.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN imagining Europe’s greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel has refused to set an advisory limit for the intake of sugar by European Union (EU) consumers. EFSA’s panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has concluded in a comprehensive assessment of dietary requirements for EU consumers “there was insufficient evidence to set an upper limit for sugars”.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

IN organised crime these days, it helps to be a linguist. Globalisation has taken organised crime – traditionally centred in one family, one city or one country – and expanded it to an international level, where criminals from all backgrounds, locations and, most importantly, languages can work together – making life even more difficult for often-monolingual law enforcement trying to keep up.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

IF there is one region where high standards in fighting money laundering and terrorist finance are expected, it is surely the five Nordic states: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Notwithstanding the criticism leveled at Iceland’s financial regulators during the credit crunch, all five countries have admirable traditions of public openness, government efficiency and international cooperation, especially amongst themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Spanish airport operator ENTE Público de Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aerea (AENA) up to Euro 400 million to help it improve Balearic islands airports. AENA has a Euro 800 million plan to upgrade Palma de Mallorca, Mahón Airport (Minorca), and Ibiza airports, enhancing capacity, safety and service standards.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

ALISON Cooper’s accession to chief executive of Britain’s Imperial Tobacco last month (May) put the UK tobacco industry in an unfamiliar position as the 43-year-old mother-of-two became just the fifth female chief executive in the flagship FTSE100 index.…

BY GEORGE STONE

THE KYOTO Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has made slow progress in Africa, but schemes are slowly getting off the ground, led by programmes in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.

Under the United Nations-backed CDM process, projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to sustainable development can earn saleable certified emission reduction (CER) credits.…