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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined Britain’s Britannia Alloys & Chemicals Ltd, James Brown Ltd and Trident Alloys Ltd, plus Germany’s Heubach GmbH & Co. KG, France’s Société Nouvelle des Couleurs Zinciques S.A., and Norway’s Waardals Kjemiske Fabrikker A/S a total of Euro 11.95 million for participating in a price-fixing and market-sharing cartel in zinc phosphate.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the repayment of part of an investment tax premium worth Euro 2 million, made out by the German government to sawmill company Klausner Nordic Timber GmbH, claiming that the subsidy broke EU state aid rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally called on Belgium to bring into its national law a decree ensuring that authors and other copyright holders are paid when their works are provided for lending to the public. Since 1994, Belgium has failed to make any payments, nor has it proposed any alternative compensation, and “damage has been suffered by right-holders of every nationality,” in breach of EU law, the Commission claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency has released comprehensive guidance on the treatment and prevention of potentially devastating diseases which could be released by a major bio-terrorist attack; anthrax, the plague, tularemia, small pox, viral haemmorhagic fever and botulism.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DOCTORS treating Chron’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis with the drug Remicade must ensure that their patients have tuberculosis, (including latent TB), or other severe infections including sepsis, abscesses or “opportunistic infections,” the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, (EMEA), has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Medicines Evaluation Agency has publicised a warning made by German pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH that users of its product Metalyse have been incorrectly using the vial and pre-filled syringe used to administer the medicine.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that airport slots abandoned by airlines because of the drop in traffic following the September 11 attacks should be earmarked for their use in the coming year. Brussels is concerned that any reallocation of slots could cause chaos and confusion amongst operators, should the air passenger market recover suddenly.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the expansion of EU regulations protecting air passengers against being refused a seat on a flight because of over-booking, so that this legal protection covers all flights; present rules do not cover charters, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has stated that the mass petition brought by Austria’s far right Freedom Party against the continued operation of the Temelin Nuclear Plant will not hinder negotiations on granting EU membership to its home country, the Czech Republic.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a formal investigation into proposals from the German government to grant Euro 92.71 million to a new company, Capro Schwedt GmbH, for the setting up of a plant in Schwedt, Brandenburg, to produce synthetic fibre production staple caprolactam.…