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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL agreement has been secured on an updated European Union directive on employees’ safety from exposure to mechanical vibrations, with the deadline companies have to introduce technical changes reducing exposure being cut from 2011 to 2010. This was agreed by a European Parliament- EU Council of Ministers conciliation committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOAL of creating a European Aviation Safety Agency to police common European Union rules affecting the sector has been achieved, with the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers settling last minute differences.

Resulting final amendments have been approved by MEP’s and the proposal will now return to the Council of Ministers for formal rubber-stamping rather than being haggled over in a time-consuming conciliation committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled that a Spanish clothing, footwear and headgear company should have secured European trade mark rights to the word ‘Ellos,’ regarding a mail order service, though it should not use the brand-name for their products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to update its monitoring systems for its trade in clothing and textiles with the limited number of countries with whom it does not have trade agreements covering the sector, which includes Taiwan.

Notably, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to update rules on surveillance and electronic documentation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to extend the legal duty on EU steel manufacturers to supply substantial amounts of statistics about their outputs and inputs, at least until the end of this year. With the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community in July, the regulation forcing them to collate the figures would have lapsed, but the European Commission has formally tabled that it be extended until December, following calls from EU policy units and national ministries that the statistics should continue to be made available.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is expected this month (May) to announce a proposed directive boosting the use of co-generation, although EU electricity association Eurelectric thinks it may at the same time moderate earlier targets for doubling the share of energy represented by the sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING imports from the United States are to bear the brunt of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.

The European Commission has announced that it is asking EU ministers to approve a selected range of products, where the levying of duty will cause the most pain to US exporters, in a bid to force the Bush administration to drop its steel tariffs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHOE and fashion accessory imports from the United States are to be a focus of retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union because of the erection of controversial ‘safeguard’ duties by Washington to protect the American steel industry.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US and European corrugated container industries have announced a harmonisation of their two standards. America’s Fibre Box Association (FBA) and the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) have developed a standard called the Corrugated Common Footprint. It was developed so that box makers could provide trays that perform well throughout the supply chain.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to unite the EU’s footwear research and development teams in a network of excellence that will form part of its so-called European Research Area. This general policy aims to link researchers from different Member States so they can collaborate on projects, avoiding duplication and benefiting from economies of scale.…