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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s (EC) proposals for the EU tobacco regime, published in detail last month (September), essentially recognise that subsidised tobacco growing in Europe on any significant scale is now coming to an end. If these plans are put in place it seems likely that in little more than three years’ time the only tobacco grown in the EU will be to serve small niche markets.…

BY PHILIP FINE

MEAT producers can now go on-line to analyse the feasibility of launching a processing facility. A downloadable template from the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, at the USA’s Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University calculates the costs, returns and feasibility of a cow and bull slaughter plant, taking in variables such as supply, transportation, environmental issues and energy costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, will invest US$22 million into modernising and restoring Bulgaria’s Stomana steel mill, part of a US$94 million investment programme dominated by Greek steel producer Sidenor. The money will improve the efficiency of the plant – in the Pernik industrial region – enabling it to better produce a wider product range that commands higher values than its current output, as well as improving production methods and environmental performance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW method of dying fabric that uses electrons instead of chemical reducing agents has been developed by a European research project, whose scientists say the process offers a “cleaner and more cost effective alternative to traditional methods of dying.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is moving towards imposing Stage III emission limits on newly manufactured plant, with the European Parliament debating plans to withhold type approval for tractors, cranes, bulldozers and other non-road mobile engines. Under the proposals, which have already been approved in principle by the EP’s environment committee, new levels for nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions will be introduced for engines (other than constant speed motors) of 130 kW to 560 kW from June 30, 2005; of 75 to 130 kW and 19 to 37 kW from December 31, 2005; of 37 to 75 kW from December 31, 2006.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 20 million to Serbia’s Belgrade International Airport and the Montenegro Airport Management Company to upgrade their passenger terminals. The money would help modernise Belgrade airport, extending its existing building, installing air conditioning, replacing check-in counters, remote control and video surveillance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOURISM once was regarded as a key to the developing world’s ills, allowing poor countries to make money out of their natural landscape and cultural attractions, but as with most success stories, there is a downside. In some countries, tourism has boomed so suddenly and aggressively, the development it has sparked has threatened to go out of control, spoiling the delights that lured tourists in the first place and creating a host of new environmental problems for governments to deal with.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS environmental health officers assess a hot summer that created high pollution concentrations and heat exhaustion, a new European Union directive on ground level ozone has come into force. The legislation requires EU Member States to assess ground ozone concentrations throughout their whole national territory and to inform the public of any readings above 180 ?g/m3.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONCE again significant recovery of coal mining in Kosovo has been frustrated by unforeseen natural disasters – in this case the collapse last November of the coal face in the Bardh coal mine after very heavy rain, causing serious damage to equipment.…