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BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE EUROPEAN automotive industry is gearing up for tighter pollution emission limits, possibly by mid-2008, under the European Union’s (EU) Euro 5 program, due to be announced by the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium on 21 December. Also expected to be announced in parallel to these restrictions on engine performance and fuel cleanliness is a carrot to encourage use of new technologies and to create a market for clean vehicles through an EU Environmental Technologies Action Plan.…

BY MARK ROWE

CHINA has spent the past 15 years playing catch-up with the developed world by building skyscrapers and demolishing its old hutongs and alleyways. It has been accused by cultural organisations of taking the view that, in order to justify its existence everything must have an economic means and end.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

TIME was when Canadians focused a significant proportion of their habitual condescension towards their American neighbours through beer. US brands were dismissed as weak in alcohol, tasteless and generic. But today, even though the big US beer labels taste the same as they ever did – much to the relief of many consumers around the world, of course – Canadian beer tastes are changing, especially among the young.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENERAL Motors BV (formerly General Motors Nederland BV) and Opel Nederland BV, of the Netherlands, look set to lose a second appeal against being fined over preventing their dealers exporting to other European Union (EU) member countries. This was found by the European Commission a breach of EU freedom of trade laws, and sparked a Euro 43 million fine to the companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPANESE car manufacturers have agreed to limit the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in vehicles – emitted by paint, vinyl and other materials that cause the distinctive ‘new car smell’ – to levels allowed in homes. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association will apply the new standards from vehicles manufactured in 2007, albeit initially only to new model cars made and sold in Japan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST formal votes have been held on the European Union’s (EU) proposed chemical control system REACH, with amendments being passed by the European Parliament’s environment committee that will generally make life more difficult for petrochemical producers.

MEPs rejected the idea of a light touch for materials produced only in small quantities of between one to 10 tonnes.…

BY MARK ROWE
EVER wondered what happens to your car’s tyres when they are replaced? They may have done 20,000 miles or so on the road, but for many their working life has barely begun. Thanks to the European Union’s End Of Life Vehicles Directive (2000/53/EC), landfills of whole tyres have been banned this year, with shredded tyres to follow in 2006.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
JAPANESE car manufacturers have agreed to limit the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in vehicles – that cause the distinctive ‘new car smell’ – to levels allowed in homes. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association will apply the new standards from vehicles manufactured in 2007, albeit initially only to new model cars both made and sold in Japan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EURO 15 million fine imposed by the European Commission on DaimlerChrysler for alleged illegal anti-competitive actions involving Spanish leasing companies has been lifted. The company had prevented German agents and Spanish dealers from supplying Mercedes-Benz cars to leasing companies before they secured customers, something Brussels said broke European Union (EU) competition laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DENMARK has been ordered by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to liberalise rules restricting foreign registered company car use in Denmark by Danish residents who work outside the country. The court has followed the advice of its advocate general Francis Jacobs in finding these rules breach Denmark’s European Union (EU) treaty obligations on freedom of movement across Europe.…