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ASTHMA REPORT
BY MONICA DOBIE
ASTHMA sufferers are 12 times as likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as those who do not have the common lung breathing complaint, according to a new American study. It suggests that asthma and COPD share a “common background” that could lay the groundwork for the far more serious condition.…
EUROSTAT ACCIDENT STATS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL work accident statistics are keenly examined by occupational health practitioners, but they do not enable the safety of British workplaces to be compared against other European countries; that is where Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical agency comes in.…
TRADING CARDS
BY MONICA DOBIE
MOVE over Harry Potter trading cards. Make way for deformed child victim of polio and newborn afflicted with tetanus trading cards. Yes indeed folks, disease cards complete with gory, graphic pictures and interesting facts on the back are making the rounds in school playgrounds across the United States.…
LOW COST AIRLINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Committee of the Regions has called on the European Commission to review its state aid guidelines to allow councils to help low cost airlines work from regional airports, because of the resulting economic development.…
MOBILE BROADBAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) governments should be more liberal towards granting planning permissions for mobile phone masts and base stations, to boost mobile-broadband services, the European Commission has claimed. In a checklist for EU governments, the Commission said: “Action is required to address regulatory barriers to their establishment.”…
RUSSIA - EBRD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S Raiffeisen Leasing is likely to receive a US$60 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) boosting its leasing services to Russian and western-owned companies. Vehicle leasing is a key part of Raiffeisen Leasing’s business portfolio.…
CALIFORNIA AIRPORTS
BY MONICA DOBIE
SOUTHERN California airports will need significant improvements by 2006 to prevent service delays and transport bottlenecks according to a report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation. It said record levels of international trade have already caused airports to reach their capacity and budget cuts (including those for road and rail links) could soon cause chronic delays, forcing passengers to bypass Los Angeles as their major point of entry into the US.…
BATHING WATER REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) beaches are getting cleaner, says the latest European Commission monitoring report: in 2003, 98.6 per cent of coastal bathing waters complied with the EU bathing water directive. Britain also improved – with 98.4 per cent of seawater beaches meeting EU mandatory requirements, (97.8 per cent in 2002), and 82.9 per cent meeting ideal guideline standards, (up from 74.9 per cent).…
INTERNET FEE VARIATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has claimed that a competition investigation that it launched last December has been responsible for forcing 18 European airlines to cease charging different prices for tickets on the basis of a customers’ country of residence.…
TAX EVASION - HOTELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HOTEL industry is Europe’s second largest source of tax evasion linked to undeclared work, a European Commission report has claimed. Only the construction industry is shier of tax collectors, (except in Germany, where – oddly – farmers and gardeners are even worse).…