Klas Rosengren and others (hereafter called Rosengren) ordered Spanish wine advertised on a Danish website, some of it by mail-order and some directly from the producer.

On 12 July, DG SANCO released the report of the Round Table on Advertising.

Chaired by the Director General of DG SANCO, Robert Madelin, the Round Table was set up in October 2005 in response to a request by advertisers for guidance and support at the current stage of their endeavours.

A French government decree on the mandatory introduction on all bottles of wines and spirits of a pictogram highlighting zero tolerance of alcohol consumption by women during pregnancy is poised for publication in the official State Gazette.

If the Finnish government gets its way, the screening of alcohol advertisements on TV will be prohibited before 9pm.

Football and rugby teams face being banned from advertising alcohol on players’ shirts and inside their stadiums following a review by the Scottish executive.

In a bid to trace where underage drinkers buy their booze, police has given shopkeepers in West Lothian, Scotland, special pens to mark their bottles with invisible ink.

The prevalence of foetal alcohol effects (FAE) in Italian primary schools is much higher than previously thought.

The number of traffic deaths in Switzerland is continuing to fall. Traffic deaths were down 17 percent from a year ago. 153 people were killed on Swiss roads the first six months of 2006, according to the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (BFU). Serious injuries fell by 15 percent to 2060.

Since 2000, Socidrogalcohol organizes each year a 3 day seminar “the Autumn School of Socidrogalcohol”. This year it will take place in Benidorm (Alicante) on 9 – 11 November.

Brussels, 27 September 2006. The European Union Council of ministers has reached a political agreement to drop all restrictions on the size of drinks containers except for wine and spirits where the present fixed sizes will mostly remain, including the standard 70cc wine bottle.