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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TOBACCO industry is facing another assault from the European Union (EU), this time at the hands of a new environment and health strategy for 2004-2010 being developed by the European Commission and which has already received approval in principal from the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have welcomed the European Commission’s plan to develop the EU’s first environment and health strategy (for 2004-2010), calling on Brussels officials to develop research models assessing the health impact of public policies, (and associated socio-economic affects).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have welcomed the European Commission’s environment and health strategy for 2004-2010, approving its initial focus on childhood respiratory diseases, asthma, allergies; neuro-developmental disorders; child cancer and endocrine disrupters.

Ministers called on the Commission to develop research models to assess the health impact of public policies, (and associated socio-economic affects), especially on children and other vulnerable groups.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to offer large livestock farms amnesty from lawsuits over excessive air pollution if they participate in a study monitoring emissions from feedlots and manure pools. Conservation groups say the plan is too lenient, given that the agency already has the authority to order air pollution monitoring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a new database including comprehensive information on 23,000 European species of flora and fauna, their habitats and protected sites. The EEA’s European Nature Information System (EUNIS) can be accessed for free at http://eunis.eea.eu.int/eunis/index.jsp.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Union scientific committee has opposed a ban imposed by the Dutch government on copper-based anti-fouling coatings being applied to pleasure boats sailed in the Netherlands, opening the way for possible legal action by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suggested the creation of a ‘Made in Europe’ label to promote the sale of quality European clothing competing against cheap imports from developing countries. Part of a grand plan to boost the European Union clothing and textile industry, a label could offer consumers a “guarantee of high environmental and social standards” in clothes production, said EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR ramblers strolling along Denmark’s sandy west Jutland coast last October, there was a disturbing sight: hundreds of dead fish, crabs, shrimps and marine worms swept ashore. It seemed that the shallow Kattegat, the Baltic Sea’s westernmost reach, had been poisoned by cyanide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UPSET and concern has been caused amongst European utilities by the extension agreed last week of a European Union (EU) system of minimum tax rates for mineral oils to all energy products, including electricity and natural gas. From the New Year, these products will attract minimum indirect taxes (excluding VAT), with the rates detailed in the directive.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…