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BY MONICA DOBIE

DUTCH coatings giant Akzo Nobel NV has taken over Canadian paintmaker Sico Inc. for approximately CDN$284 million.

Akzo based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will acquire all of Sico’s outstanding common shares at a cash price of CDN$20 per share and will also offer to buy Sico’s class B preferred shares for CDN$3.8 million in total.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PUBLISHERS are being asked to comment on draft European Commission plans to reform scientific publishing in Europe. The Commission has suggested an official ranking system for scientific publications: by quality, copyright management, search facilities and archiving. It is also considering using its competition powers to "guarantee a level playing field" in a market where paid-for journals compete with open-access Internet sites.…

BY MARK ROWE

SCIENTISTS and engineers are using nanotechnology to install sensors that will create "self-thinking" carpets offering huge resource savings and safety benefits to companies and householders.

Nanotechnology will implement sensors into carpets so that the carpets recognise where people are, according to Wolfgang Porod, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Nanofabrication Facility in the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROMANIA is desperate to join the European Union (EU) but it remains unclear whether that desperation extends to clamping down on business crime, one of the key obstacles that Romania must overcome to gain entry to the club.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUNDBREAKING business plan of chemical leasing, designed to stop manufacturers over-purchasing potentially dangerous substances, is being promoted in developing and emerging market countries by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). It is working with the Austrian government to introduce the system, which leaves suppliers owning their chemicals, leasing them as a service, rather than selling them as goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is using nanotechnology to develop bio-sensors that could be fitted to air traffic controllers and pilots, warning managers of potential drowsiness or sleepiness. The SENSATION project has united 46 specialists from 20 countries to create, says a project note, "a multipurpose sensing platform of 17 micro sensors and two nano sensors all connected through a (computer) local area network (LAN)."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has promised that its institutions will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), even exchanging information with its investigators. The cooperation agreement that will come into force on May 1 involves creating a central EU contact point for the ICC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-EUROPEAN Union (EU) uranium owners do not have to ask the European Commission permission to export uranium enriched within the EU, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Miguel Poiares Maduro was advising on a complex legal case focusing on the control of Brazilian-owned uranium transferred from Europe to the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has tried to give a boost to Europe’s tyre recycling industry by adopting global regulatory standards for retreaded tyres. This renewal is particularly popular for heavier vehicles, such as trucks, buses and trailers, with more than 50% running on retreads in Europe.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have

piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten

gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global

money-laundering authorities.…