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ARAL SEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF there was ever a good example to show how the economic interests of humankind generally trump those of the environment, look no further than the Aral Sea, or rather, seas, as it is today. Once a beautiful 66,900 square km inland great lake, it has since the 1960’s shrunk to less than half this size and split in two.…
EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…
TANKS AND VESSELS
BY MICHAEL FOX
TANKS and vessels are used to store a huge range of hazardous liquids. But if they leak either from a failure of the storage system or during handling, many can pose a major threat to the environment and to groundwater.…
BEAUTY MILK
BY MARK ROWE
BEAUTY is not only in the eye of the beholder but all also in the milk that we pour in our tea or cereal. At least, that’s what a South Korean milk company would like us to believe.…
PARAGUAY BEEF
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…
WTO - ENVIRONMENTAL DEALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has agreed to admit officials from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and representatives from secretariats for other multilateral environmental agreements as observers to its ongoing Doha Development Round negotiations. The move has been welcomed by the European Commission, which wants these representatives to point out when the free trade talks are in danger of creating an agreement that may undermine or conflict with existing international environmental agreements.…
ASBESTOS PROTECTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities and companies across the European Union will have to review their asbestos protection procedures, following the agreement by the EU Council of Ministers of an updated directive, introducing a single maximum average airborne exposure in excess of 0.1 fibres per cm3 measured over eight hours.…
HEALTH AND SAFETY GUIDELINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEMBER States of the European Union – including Britain – have come under political pressure to improve their health and safety training, publicity and monitoring for self-employed workers, especially for certain high-risk sectors, agriculture, fishing, construction and transport.…
WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PSYCHOLOGICAL harassment in the workplace is the new growing health-and-safety threat in Europe, both as a source of stress and a cause of productivity losses, a European Union (EU) agency’s report has concluded.
‘Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace’ by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has found that defence industry workers and government officials are most likely to suffer this kind of victimisation, with 16 per cent reporting these problems.…
CYCLAMATES
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has amended proposed European Union additive legislation by calling for much stricter cuts in maximum permitted doses of cyclamates in soft drinks, but has withdrawn its call for a total ban on the artificial sweetener.…