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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 149.6 million to Spanish electricity company Viesgo Generación to build a large natural gas-fired combined cycle generating plant in Spain, generating around 800 MWe. The project would entail constructing advanced gas-fired combined-cycle technology with a relatively low environmental impact in a poorer area of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESEARCHERS at the Institute of Vegetal Biology and Photosynthesis of the Spanish National Research Council, in Seville, have developed a system producing large amounts of lutein, an antioxidant fighting degenerative diseases such as arteriosclerosis or cataracts. They have created a cell culture production system using the green alga Muriellopsis, which they claim guarantees more abundant and sustained production than from marigold plant petals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States will have to review countervailing measures it has imposed on privatised British and Spanish steel-makers after a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruled they were partly imposed in breach of WTO rules. The panel however rejected claims that the US had erred in a sunset review of measures imposed against France’s Usinor regarding certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, which should be allowed to stand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Spain with legal action for failing to obey a European Court Justice order to relinquish ‘golden share’ rights over tobacco giant Tabacalera. Judges told Spain May 2003 to liberalise a law allowing the Spanish government control over the company’s winding-up, de-merger, merger and disposal of assets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the take over of Spanish toiletries, cosmetics and beauty product retailer Cortefiel by Coral Retail Industries, controlled by Luxembourg investment fund CVC Capital Partners Group. Brussels fast-tracked clearing the deal, despite CVC’s control of Spanish-American perfume, cosmetic and toiletries wholesaler the Colomer Group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that in future, Spanish food products should not be marketed with the words ‘biológico’ or ‘bio’ if they have not been organically produced.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
SPANISH meat and poultry company Grupo Sada has lost an attempt to secure European Union (EU) trademark rights to its name, with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) fearing possible confusion with Brazilian competitor Sadia SA.

Meanwhile, Sweden should be censured for breaking EU directive 89/662/EEC on health controls for livestock and meat by insisting Swedish veterinary authorities be warned at least 24-hours ahead of impending shipments, an ECJ advocate general has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has called on the European Commission to frame an action plan on simplifying red tape for the fishing industry, “reducing their bureaucratic workload and the restrictions that bear down on fishermen”.…

BY LIZ HALL
A PROFUSION of family-run businesses, corrupt and under-resourced authorities and low wages has traditionally meant much commercial crime goes undetected in Latin America. But the tide is turning, with more and more companies unwilling to turn a blind eye to fraud, bribery and counterfeit goods production.…