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BY JONATHAN THOMSON
TRUST SERVICES provider VeriSign has announced that its managed PKI, (public key infrastructure), services will meet the criteria set out by the EU Commission’s Directive for digital signatures. The Directive aims to accelerate the acceptance of digital signatures to provide secure e-commerce and communications.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has announced that it will lend Euro 150 million loan to Nueva Generadora del Sur SA for constructing a combined-cycle power plant in Cádiz province, Spain.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a state aid investigation into a Euro 53.2 million Basque government grant for the construction in Bilbao of a combined-cycle electricity production plant and a re-gasification unit, which is to provide the fuel for the power station.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s LIFE-Nature programme is meet half the costs of a pounds 1.65 million scheme to eradicate the American mink from the Western isles of Scotland where it is beginning to decimate important bird populations. Remaining cash will come from Scottish National Heritage and others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering introducing a series of dioxin contamination limits for fish products. They include: 6 nanograms/kg for fish oil, 4 nanograms/kg for farmed and wild fish, 1.25 nanogram/kg for fish meal and 2.25 nanogram/kg for fish feed.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States has lifted its retaliatory 100 per cent duties on EU exports of cotton bed linen, following the solution of the years-long row with the European Union over its import procedures for Caribbean bananas. The duties had been authorised by the WTO, which had concluded that the EU had broken global trading laws by offering preferential access to its markets to Caribbean bananas.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Council of Ministers has decided to suspend the collection of anti-dumping duties on imports of cotton-type bed linen from India following a determination by the World Trade Organisation that the EU had failed to take all relevant factors into account when it originally imposed the levies in 1997.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR European Union research study has concluded that the ‘true’ price of using coal and oil to generate electricity is double that usually assumed by standard accounting systems, when the costs of cleaning up the resulting pollution and dealing with the resulting health problems are taken into account.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted the Ukraine Euro 20 million to help it purchase additional fuel for electricity power plants this winter, following the closure of Chernobyl, a longstanding aim of EU diplomacy. The money follows Euro 35 million already pledged to help the Kiev government meet its post-Chernobyl energy needs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOARD of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has been asked to consider granting a new and larger loan, to invest in a Ukrainian developer, so it can build a 271-room four-star international hotel in central Kiev, to be run by Radisson SAS Hotels.…