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ROYALTY FEES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH restaurateurs and hoteliers could be forced to pay regular fees to record companies for piping music from radio broadcasts into their premises, if the European Commission wins a legal case against the British government.
It has asked the European Court of Justice to order the UK to scrap the existing system, where no royalty fees are paid to record companies when hoteliers and restaurateurs play radio background music, free-of-charge to customers.…
PILKINGTON AKTIV
BY KATE REW
CHEMICAL window cleaning agents could soon be redundant thanks to a new product soon to be introduced by Pilkington North America. Its Pilkington Aktiv glass is the first in the world to have self-cleaning properties.
The glass uses a so-called ‘photocatalytic effect,’ where the sun’s rays gradually and continuously break down organic dirt which then dissolves.…
MINK CULL
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.…
3D IMAGING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into helping governments verify nuclear non-proliferation treaties have led the EU’s Joint Research Centre to develop new technology, which allows the creation of three-dimensional images of high clarity and accuracy. A spin-off company 3D Veritas, based in Sesto Calende, northern Italy, uses software which enables the speedy production of photo-realistic 3D models of the interior and exterior of buildings and other large objects.…
ROYALTY FEES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH restaurateurs and hoteliers could be forced to pay regular fees to record companies for piping music from radio broadcasts into their premises, if the European Commission wins a legal case against the British government.
It has asked the European Court of Justice to order the UK to scrap the existing system, where no royalty fees are payable for playing this background music free-of-charge to customers.…
WORKING TIME LATEST
BY ALAN OSBORN AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE STAGE has been set for a second round of political wrangling over the proposed extension of EU working time rules to road haulage sector, after the European Parliament confirmed substantial amendments to the plan.…
GULF STATES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The International Maritime Bureau of the International Chamber of Commerce has called for increased port controls by Gulf states in a bid to stop unseaworthy vessels smuggling oil out of Iraq and leading to collisions and oil spills.…
SMALL BUSINESS ILLITERACY
BY DERIDRE MASON
MANY health and safety leaflets are going over their targets’ heads because the reading age needed to understand them is too high, delegates at the recent Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents health at work conference at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, heard.…
TOBACCO DIRECTIVE DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CIGARETTE packets sold in the European Union could be graced with gory medical images designed to shock smokers into quitting, as a result of a compromise deal struck between the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament over the final form of the new European tobacco directive.…
smokecloak
BY ALAN OSBORN
(maximum marks for this one, I think. Only drawback – it’s only as good as the alarm system it comes with.)
Price (installed):
the 2000 model (155 cubic metres) – pounds 1,350
the 4000 model (250 cubic metres) – pounds 1,800
the 8000 model (400 cubic metres) – pounds 2,200
Contact:
Smokecloak
10 Cochran Close, Crownhill
Milton Keynes, Bucks.…