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BRAZIL TESTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lifted a remaining requirement for 20% of Brazilian poultry meat exports into the European Union (EU) to be tested for residues of nitrofuran antibiotics. All such cargoes had been tested after October 2002, with the proportion eased to 20% this March following improvements in Brazilian production standards.…
LIFE PROGRAMME
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to help fund 109 environmental innovation projects in 18 EU member countries with Euro 76 million of grants from the European Union (EU) 2004 LIFE environment programme. It said the projects applied “ground-breaking technologies” to tackle environmental problems.…
KYPRIANOU QUESTIONNAIRE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Commissioner for health and consumer affairs has shown signs in a European Parliament questionnaire that he could be as feisty as his predecessor, Ireland’s David Byrne, calling for an EU-wide ban on smoking in public.…
RAPID BSE TEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has designed a field trial for a proposed rapid BSE detection test for live animals, that could significantly reduce culling following an outbreak. EFSA’s Scientific Expert Working Group on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) wants to add a rapid live test to five rapid post mortem tests.…
SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPANIES across the European Union (EU) will have to ensure that their staff do not discriminate against their customers or clients because of their gender, under a directive that this week (4-10) was approved in principle by the EU Council of Ministers.…
YOUNG ROAD DEATHS
BY ALAN OSBORN
YOUNG people in Britain are more than twice as likely to die in road accidents between 10.00 pm and 2.00 am Friday to Saturday and during
the same hours Saturday to Sunday than at any other time of the week
according to figures released by the European Environmental Agency (EEA).…
GREECE - ECJ CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that European Union (EU) insurance laws allow owed salaries to be paid ahead of outstanding policy claims, when an insurance company goes out of business. Its ruling has come in a Greek case brought by a public road-accident liability fund – Epikouriko Kefalaio – against its government for ordering Intercontinental AE, also of Greece, to release part of its frozen assets to pay salary claims.…
ROAD ACCIDENTS - EEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has called for a concerted action to improve the poor driving behaviour of 18-25 year olds on weekends, which it says is responsible for a significant proportion of Europe’s road deaths. The EEA, acting to promote sustainable development, has released figures showing a significant spike in road deaths for young drivers early Saturday and Sunday mornings.…
SATELLITE SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) is developing a service that could save the insurance industry expensive shipwreck policy payouts, updating coastal maritime maps from space. The Euro 1 million Coastchart project aims at improving charts of shifting sand, mud and gravel-banks that can move 100’s of metres annually.…
NANOTECH - EUREKA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research consortium says it has adapted existing nanotechnology to create tiny switches that can further shrink the size of computers. The E! 2839 MESCI-I project – coordinated by European Union (EU) research network EUREKA – claims to “have succeeded where many others have failed – by making the production of miniature electric and computer systems economically viable”.…