Brussels, 10/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The new regulation on smoke flavourings, which will harmonise the widely differing national rules in the Union, was formally adopted on 9 October, by qualified majority, in the Council. The United Kingdom abstained because it had its doubts about the relevance of the legal basis retained (article 95, Internal Market, rather than article 308 for authorisation procedures). The regulation will enter into force twenty days after its publication in the...