LIFE PROGRAMME

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) LIFE environment programme has been extended for another two years to 2005 and 2006, when it will command a budget of Euro 317.2 million. The scheme finances the development of innovative environmental techniques and methods and was prolonged by the EU Council of Ministers, with Portugal opposing the move.



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