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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURATOM has released its 2002 report on inquiries carried out by its European Commission officials tasked with checking the safety and security of nuclear installations across the European Union (EU); although the paper’s conclusions was generally satisfactory, it notes a number of problems detected that required resolution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce is fighting a legal decision it fears could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with a negligible impact on the USA. It has filed an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a DC Court of Appeals ruling allowing non-US plaintiffs to bring foreign anti-trust claims to American courts.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN smokers have undergone a quantum leap in the past 10 years. From smoking the notorious unfiltered Soviet-era papirossi, they now have a wide choice of international brands, for whom this liberalisation has been commercially significant. Russia remains one of the more appealing markets for tobacco companies, with fewer barriers and, for the time being, a fairly laissez faire approach to advertising, as well as a burgeoning middle class with the disposable incomes to afford premium cigarettes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK of millions of tonnes of uranium mining waste being swept by a landslide into the populous Fergana Valley river basin in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikstan has prompted the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to redouble efforts to prevent this tragedy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to formally associate itself with the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which was formed in 2002 – with the key support of Britain’s Tony Blair – to fight corruption in the natural gas, oil and mining sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) electricity federation Eurelectric has called for the creation of a pan-EU market for renewable energy, that avoids relying on long-term subsidies such as grid feed-in laws, used in countries such as Germany.

The group has released a report warning that if the EU’s renewable energy directive’s 2010 targets on production and consumption are met, “a very substantial level of expenditure will result if the existing direct support schemes continue.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST Europe-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water has been launched by the European Environment Agency and the European Commission. This European Pollutant Emission Register is available on the Internet and contains detailed information on pollution from around 10,000 large industrial facilities in the European Union and Norway, including large pig and poultry farms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is offering Internet access to some nuclear fuel cycle related databases and a simulation system for long-term projections of nuclear fuel cycle material and service requirements. Based on information from the IAEA’s Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System (iNFCIS), this data is mainly based on voluntary reports from IAEA members as well as published material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is considering plans to lend Belgian steel producer Arcelor Euro 125 million, to invest in a new stainless steel meltshop in Charleroi, including an electric furnace, an argon oxygen decarbonisation converter and a continuous slab casting installation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been awarded official observer status at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation.…