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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted clearance in the EU to the proposed takeover of the Quaker Oats Company by Pepsico Inc. Both are American owned.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided not to oppose the granting of state aid by Italy to the Franco-Italian company ST Microelectronics for three research projects costing the equivalent of some pounds 275 million. The maximum aid permitted under EU regulations is pounds 86 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a robust attack on the Council of Europe’s draft convention on cybercrime, which it accuses of being “too vague and confusing” and of threatening “fundamental rights and freedoms.”

A paper from the EU’s Working Party of Data Protection has called for the discussions on the convention to be extended beyond the summer deadline, which currently exists for the adoption of the cybercrime agreement.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that Belgium be allowed to reduce its excise duty on low-sulphur diesel, (less than 50 ppm), and unleaded petrol, in a bid to encourage the use of cleaner fuels.…

KEITH NUTHALL
HAULIERS handling live exports could be forced to make costly improvements to their lorries to boost the welfare of their animal cargoes, if EU ministers accept a new reform package from the European Commission.

It has proposed a set of mandatory standards for the long distance transport of horses, cattle, goats, sheep and pigs within the EU, on journeys exceeding eight hours.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROPOSED EU directive on the training of professional drivers – which would make preliminary and continuing training compulsory for road hauliers – could receive its first reading at the next Council of Ministers for transport and telecommunications on June 27-8.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SOUTH Korean government is continuing to bankroll its shipbuilding industry, allowing its companies to continue dominating this international sector, on the basis of unfair trading practices, a European Commission report has alleged. It noted that last year saw an significant expansion in shipbuilding orders worldwide, but that the 56 per cent rise in orders “benefited South Korean yards,” which increased their market share, rather than EU shipbuilders, whose share remained static.…

KEITH NUTHALL
ADVICE from the European Commission, that retailers with branches in the EU countries introducing notes and coins of the Euro next year should avoid holding their winter sales until the New Year deadline for the launch of the new cash has passed, has been attacked by the British Retail Consortium.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT release by the International Labour Organisation has claimed that EU hotel, catering and tourism workers earn on average 20 per cent below the European Union average for workers in other sectors. Together, the hotel, catering and tourist sectors produce 3-4 per cent of gross domestic product in most countries worldwide, according to the ILO, but most of their workers are unskilled, in part-time or low-wage jobs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted quotas and tariffs restricting imports of clothing products from the Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Bosnia. This follows a promise from these countries that they would reduce tariff and quota barriers restricting the export of EU-made clothing products.…