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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed attempts by European Union (EU) producers of a key coatings ingredient to secure anti-dumping duties on imports of pentaerythritol into the EU from China, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the USA. CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) had claimed illegally cut-priced exports of this common polyol (which produces alkyd resins underpinning many coatings) from these countries had been damaging the economic health of EU producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TODAY’S medical world is abuzz with nanotechnology, with its offer of vision-enhancing eye implants, tiny needlepoint diagnostic cameras that don’t hurt, and clever medicine membranes that ooze out the pharmaceuticals in correct regular doses.

But there are risks, of course, as with any new science.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN today’s highly competitive energy sector, oil and gas companies and their suppliers are always looking for an edge over rivals, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies through its ‘seventh framework programme’, its largest ever research spending scheme, commanding budgets worth Euro 53.2 billion in total.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LONG legal battle by an Italian fruit juice concentrate importer resisting a Euro 2.6 million demand for allegedly unpaid import duties has failed at the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance. Judges refused to find fault with the European Commission, plus the Italian and Turkish customs officials and governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRIVE into eastern Europe and your chance of being killed in a road accident rise steeply say the latest European Union (EU)-wide comparative accident figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat. The EU’s worst blackspots are Latvia at 752 road accident deaths per million car registrations; Romania 749; Lithuania 571; Slovakia 507 and Poland 476.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states have given a cool reception to the European Commission’s January energy package on forging a tough EU-wide programme of boosting energy capacity in Europe. At a special EU Council of Ministers meeting, a majority of governments, including the UK, opposed a proposed binding 2020 target of sourcing 20% of all energy consumption from renewable sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN and Greek governments have signed an agreement to build a gas interconnector between their countries, filling a missing link in the growing pipeline network bringing gas to western Europe from Turkey, the Caucasus and central Asia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POVERTY-stricken litter pickers in urban Turkey are being offered a chance to generate more income from their informal and ill-paid pastime, via a deal between the World Bank and packaging manufacturer Modern Karton. One of Turkey’s largest industrial packaging manufacturers, it has signed a cooperation agreement with the bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) in establishing formal collection systems for the Istanbul metropolitan area.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TURKEY confectionary manufacturers will enjoy quota-limited duty free access to the European Union (EU) under a negotiated agreement presented to EU ministers for approval. Products covered include sugar confectionary, chewing gum, boiled sweets, toffee, chocolate and others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is pumping Euro 11 million into a war-damaged paper factory in in Maglaj, Bosnia & Herzegovina, to modernise its plant and increase production, notably of cardboard and paper for making large sacks.…