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ECO CAR CHALLENGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UK government is challenging carmakers to design and build an affordable, ultra low carbon family car, capable of travelling 1,000 miles on a standard tank of fuel. Launching the “Ultra Low Carbon Car Challenge,” the Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling, said more than one proposal from manufacturers may be taken forward under the Department for Transport’s New Vehicle Technology Fund, which has a budget of Pounds 10 million over 3 years.…
EFSA IN BUSINESS
BY Alan Osborn
The European Food Safety Authority has begun active operations following appointments to its scientific committee and to the eight specialist panels. Mr Geoffrey Podger, executive director of EFSA and former head of Britain’s food safety agency, said EFSA had recruited the best available scientists working on the most important food safety issues “so that significant improvements can be made to the safety of food in the European Union – that process begins now.”…
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to abide by their Kyoto Protocol commitments.…
DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES CAMPAIGN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) has announced the details of a campaign it will run this year on reducing the risk of handling dangerous substances at work. The European Union (EU) agency is to provide information about risks and solutions in all official EU languages, through posters, leaflets and a multilingual website at http://osha.eu.int/ew2003/,…
EU RECRUITMENT
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) have invited applications for about 375 lawyer posts to help meet the demands imposed by next year’s enlargement of the EU from 15 to 25 countries which will add 75 million to the EU population.…
EU COMPANY LAW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the European Union’s company law regime have been approved by the EU Council of Ministers, that take account of the development of electronic communications. The changes require Member States to permit – from 2007 – the filing of official documents electronically.…
EXTRADITION AGREEMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is to sign a controversial extradition agreement with the US, with the deal being approved by the EU justice and home affairs council, despite concerns raised by the European Parliament. Its text should be initialled at the EU-US summit on June 25 in Washington.…
GM CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, with Argentina, Canada and Egypt have decided to challenge at the WTO the EU’s five-year de facto moratorium on imports of biotech foods and crops. EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Brussels would fight the case, maintaining that “the EU’s regulatory system for GMO’s authorisation is in line with WTO rules.”…
GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has widened the scope of Europe’s geographical indication legislation, protecting names marketing traditionally made foodstuffs. Ministers allowed future applications for the protection of mustard pastes and uncooked and unstuffed pastas and permitted producer groups to insist that protected products should be packaged in their home region.…