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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE CREATION of standards certification schemes or the development of industrial parks for the leather industry should be promoted by south Asian governments, said the South Asia Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC). This would help meet developed country demands for products that are not made with banned chemicals, by sweat shops or that cause environmental damage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) may pose as the globe’s environmental crusader, but the latest figures from the European Environment Agency (EEA) – for 2001 – have shown that for a second year running, EU greenhouse gas emissions have risen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has launched a publicly available database containing national environmental reports from 52 European and central Asian countries and five geographical regions. The database also includes international assessments of these countries, which include all European Union states, countries applying to join the EU and most former Soviet republics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s funding institutions are increasingly financially assisting the former USSR’s oil industry. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$80 million loan to a key subsidiary of Russia’s Lukoil group – CSJC Lukoil-Perm – to help it cut gas flaring to 20 per cent by 2005, compared with 52 per cent at typical Russian oilfields.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Union’s eastern border set to move a few 100 miles eastwards on May 1 next year, preparations are under way to set up tough frontier controls against the food hygiene badlands of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GEORGE W Bush may mot have an awful lot of time for either the United Nations or international law – especially as far as global warming is concerned – but in Europe, at least, its reach is growing wider.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the British government to the European Court of Justice for failing to ensure that an environmental impact assessment has been carried out on a planned urban development project at White City, London. It involves the construction of a 60,000 m2 shopping and leisure centre with 16 hectares set aside for 4,500 car parking spaces.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUNDBREAKING legal watchdog, charged with ensuring governments abide by a new international convention on environmental decision-making and information dissemination, has had its first meeting. This Compliance Committee of the recently strengthened Aarhus Convention will, from October, have the right to consider complaints from individual citizens and non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) that their governments are not complying with its terms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted environmental approval to plans for extending the life of Germany’s Prosper Haniel Colliery, near near Bottrop in North-Rhine Westphalia, using its powers to protect the EU’s Natura 2000 conservation sites. Brussels said the potential ecological damage that may be caused by continued operations at Haniel was justified by “reasons of overriding public interest.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
EASTERN European countries looking to join the European Union need to make efficiency improvements to their textile industries, so that they can face the challenge of membership and the impending abolition of quotas under the World Trade Organisations Agreement in Textiles and Clothing.…