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MACEDONIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Macedonian baked-goods producer Zitoluks AD Euro 8 million to help it expand, refurbish its existing outlets.…
ALLERGY NETWORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into the environmental conditions sparking asthma and allergies in Europe are to be carried out by an expert network (GA2LEN) funded by Euro 14.4 million in EU research grants. The initiative involves 650 researchers in 16 countries and will investigate national contrasts in allergy rates.…
FOOD WASTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…
EEA DISASTER REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENTS and international institutions of the European Union (EU) need to better prepare for cooperative responses to large-scale man-made disasters that inevitably cause damage on a cross-border scale, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed. In a report ‘Mapping the Impacts of Recent Natural Disasters and Technological Accidents in Europe’, the EEA said that the oncoming enlargement of the EU was “an opportunity to strengthen cooperation…across a much larger area of Europe.”…
EBRD TRANSPARENCY
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). The bank will henceforth work with the initiative, developing “practical ways to promote its principles”, notably that mining companies disclose their financial relationships with governments.…
COKE - FRANCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of French coking plant Cokerie de Carling, by German companies Dillinger Hütte and Saarstahl (SAG), through their iron-making joint venture Rogesa. The Commission has approved the sale unconditionally because of the French state-owned plant’s small production.…
GREECE - LIGNITE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given Greece two months to say how it will scrap the exclusive rights enjoyed by its state-owned Public Power Corporation (PCC) for the mining of lignite in the country, which accounts for more than 60 per cent of its electricity.…
RUSSIA LEASING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FOURTH mining equipment leasing package for Russia has been signed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This latest agreement will help Japan’s Sumitomo group expand its supplies in Siberia and the Russian far east, through a US$45 million leasing framework, with the bank bearing one third of the risk.…
WASTE DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MINING companies could be prevented from walking away from their responsibilities to deal with mine waste in the European Union (EU), even after the end of extraction, under amendments approved this week to a waste directive by the European Parliament.…
CAR RECYCLING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a technical directive that would impose standards on European Union (EU) automotive manufacturers, forcing them to record polymers or elastomers used in the construction of cars, buses and light vans, making these materials more easy to recycle once the vehicle is scrapped.…