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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FIGURES presented to European Union ministers by EU health Commissioner David Byrne suggest that BSE infection is continuing to decline across Europe. Although the total number of cases detected in tests remained roughly constant in 2002 compared with 2001, there were 10 per cent more tests carried out last year, (around 10 million), than the previous year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation has published a series of papers illustrating the gains and benefits of developing genetically modified foodstuffs, including meat. It includes notes on unusual spin-off products, such as silk secretions from sheep udders, plus information on increasing meat yields, genetic markets and potential animal health threats.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LEGALLY binding civil claims code has been drawn up by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) that insists on compensation being paid out for industrial accidents damaging rivers, lakes and seas that span national boundaries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANOTHER Briton has been appointed head of a key EU environmental health organisation. This time, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, an environmental scientist, will become the next Executive Director of the European Environment Agency. Prof. McGlade, 47, is currently Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Professorial Fellow in Environmental Informatics and Mathematics at University College, London.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRIVATE financing of Euro 235.9 million will be combined with loans of Euro 112.2 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help rehabilitate, improve the environmental performance and extend the life of Bulgaria’s privately owned lignite-fired 840 MW power plant Maritza East III.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend US$6 million to an Azerbaijan company, which is to apply coatings to the Middle East country’s growing oil and gas pipeline network.

Baku-based EUPEC PipeCoatings Azerbaijan will receive this revolving loan facility; it is an Azeri-German joint venture between EUPEC PipeCoatings GmbH, of Germany, and Azertrans Ltd and Azinvest, of Azerbaijan.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE WORLD Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have agreed to fund a US$55.77 million environmental management programme in Zambia’s copper mining region. The Copperbelt Environmental Project (CEP) will try to improve the compliance of Zambian copper producers with the country’s environmental regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government is to operate a special aid fund that is designed to promote projects that reduce transport emissions and hence help the country meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments. The Environment and Energy Management Agency will grant aid totalling more than Euro 20 million annually until the end of 2007.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, ALAN OSBORN, PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

IF there had been feelings bubbling under the surface of the British civil nuclear industry that the regulations governing its security were due for an overhaul, the events of September 11, 2001 – becoming universally known by its American shorthand 9/11 – certainly brought everybody to the table.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STREAMLINING, multi-tasking and flexible posting of employees may be important weapons in the arsenal of a personnel team looking at getting the most efficiency out of their company, but managers had better make sure that their policies are legal, not only under national laws, but European law too.…