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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for the oncoming sixth framework programme on EU research to treat the development electronic money purses, especially through the use of 3G mobile phones, as a priority for funding. As it stands, the proposed plan would earmark Euro 3.6 billion for ‘information society’ research from 2002 to 2006.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has voted to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester textured filament yarn from Thailand and Indonesia. Thai companies will have to pay additional duties of 20.2 per cent, with ministers approving lower duties for two companies, namely Tuntex (Thailand) PLC, (6.7 per cent) and Sunflag (Thailand) Ltd, (4.8 per cent).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a new guide, “Data Protection in the European Union,” which is aimed at providing businesses a clear and understandable description of EU legislation on the subject. It is based on Directive 95/46/EC, (the data protection directive), which is also the subject of proposed reforms that take account of “new and foreseeable developments in electronic communications services and technologies.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has established a Clean Air for Europe programme, which includes a commitment to create an integrated anti-air pollution strategy by 2004. It will promote the collection of detailed information on the problem, which will be the basis for decisions supposedly based on sound science.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to apply further pressure on Member States to harmonise their drinks excise duty rates later this year, when it releases a report on alcohol taxation. The paper will focus on the problems created in the EU’s Internal Market by wide contrasts between rates and its effect on competition between different categories of alcoholic drinks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced an in-depth investigation into a planned online travel agency to be formed by the internet service

provider T-Online, and the travel companies TUI and C&N (Neckermann), which could lead to Brussels blocking the deal on competition grounds.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is to fund a Euro 120,000 research project examining ways of further reducing carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles, (category N1). Brussels has called on companies and think tanks to bid for the contract to carry out the studies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has demanded the immediate introduction of

a uniform driving “attestation” for drivers from non-EU countries using roads in the EU. MEP’s said that this should certify that the driver met the employment conditions of the country where he or she was operating.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has voted to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester textured filament yarn from Thailand and Indonesia. Thai companies will have to pay additional duties of 20.2 per cent, with ministers approving lower duties for two companies, namely Tuntex (Thailand) PLC, (6.7 per cent) and Sunflag (Thailand) Ltd, (4.8 per cent).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COUNCIL of Europe report has recommended that the $US215 million international loan earmarked for completing two new nuclear reactors in Ukraine – in exchange for shutting down Chernobyl – be spent instead on reducing the country’s energy waste and diversifying its energy sources.…