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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GRANT scheme funnelling money to German citizens wanting to buy environment-friendly insulation made from sheep’s wool, (as well as flax, hemp fibre), rather than conventional fossil materials has been approved by the European Commission. Its decision, made under European Union state aid regulatory powers will send a signal to other EU Member States that such schemes would be approved by Brussels across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Convention – the body drawing up a constitution for the European Union – has dropped its controversial proposal to include the Euratom treaty in its articles. Instead, the Convention has introduced an annex, insisting upon a legal separation between the EU and Euratom.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is lending US$17.5 million in INDRupees to Indian textile company Alok Industries Ltd, allowing the Mumbai (Bombay)-based company to expand and modernise its knitting facilities and meet growing demand from domestic and international customers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESEARCHERS from the leather industry are being invited to gather with their colleagues from the textile, pulp and paper sectors in a European Union workshop focusing on their recycling of water and the treatment of wastewater. The September 18 and 19 meeting in Copenhagen is being organised by the EU-funded PANATEX project.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is one of a number of EU countries being threatened by the European Commission with actions in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for non-compliance with EU waste treatment and water laws. The potential legal action over waste management arises from a ruling by the ECJ in 2002 when the UK was condemned for failing to adopt waste management plans that conformed to the EU’s framework waste, hazardous waste and packaging waste directives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its failure to properly implement the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive. Brussels says there is no guarantee Irish industries and farms will follow the legislation’s environmental rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRIA is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its failure to properly implement the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive and Ireland is being threatened with such legal action for the same reason.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Norilsk Nickel has announced long-terms plans to boost its modernisation plan begun last year across its plants and products. Norilsk spent US$351 million on modernisation in 2002 and plans to invest the same amount in 2003, the company said.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…