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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a strong attack on the Council of Europe’s draft convention on cybercrime, which is supposed to protect online publishers by committing European countries – including those in the east – to outlawing the abuse of digital copyright.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has concluded that the liberalisation of the EU telecommunications markets has contributed to a sharp cut in prices and that planned additional reforms are likely to make European charges cheaper still; it also concludes that reforms are likely to harmonise future electricity prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Denmark to the European Court of Justice claiming that it is breaking EU freedom of movement of goods laws because of its restrictions on enriched foods. Danish regulations do not allow foodstuffs containing additional vitamins to be sold, unless checks on the nutritional need for the enrichment have been documented in Denmark.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOYOLA de Palacio, vice-president of the European Commission warmly welcomed today’s (Thursday) IMO agreement and confirmed that the 15 EU member states would implement their right to deny single-hull oil tanker access to their ports from 2015.

Mrs Loyola de Palacio, also European Commissioner for transport and energy, said that the EU had led the fight against marine oil pollution and was proud of its role in securing an international agreement which would make the seas safer and reduce the risk of oil spill catastrophes.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) introduced in the UK on 27

March have begun smoothly, in spite of warnings earlier in the year from

electricity companies that insufficient testing of the system had taken

place and that market conditions were not favourable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHARTERED Institution of Water and Environmental Management has welcomed the European Commission’s white paper proposing that an environmental liability regime is set up within the EU, where polluters are held financially responsible for damage to eco-systems that they cause.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTY of security companies, auctioneers, luxury goods retailers and customs and tax officials, to abide by the EU money laundering directive’s commitments on record keeping and notifying suspicious transactions, has been written back into the proposed law, following its second reading by the European Parliament.…

BY KATE REW
BELGIUM’S most internationally famous beer, Stella Artois will be available for the first time in the west of the United States, when it goes on sale in Denver, Colorado, this month.

Although it has been available in other eastern states since 1999, the company now plans to expand westwards to new US markets, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas later this year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has expressed concern at the growing number of requests from EU wine-producing countries for permission to grant national distillation aid to growers. Franz Fischler, EU agriculture commissioner for wine, said it was “quite worrying” that member states were seeking to grant “pure operating aids which do not bring about any structural improvement.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHIPPING companies will be able to source information about European Union research projects focusing on the computerisation of maritime transport systems, via a new Internet site. Managed by Brussels’ SWAN project, the site includes information on maritime research, technology and development projects funded by the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies Programme (IST).…