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COASTAL ZONES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers for the environment has agreed in principle the creation of official guidelines for Member States on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, where governments will have to develop national strategies coordinating national, regional and local regulations and initiatives affecting coasts, covering beaches and cliffs as well as the sea.…
OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU environment ministers have backed the European Parliament in rejecting an ‘averaging and banking’ system within a proposed directive limiting emissions from outdoors mobile equipment, such as lawnmowers, which would have allowed manufacturers to sell dirty machines, if they made improvements to other models.…
HCE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission announced this week (Monday October 29) that it will ban from June 30, 2003, the use of chemical product hexachloroethane, (HCE), in the manufacture or processing of all non-ferrous metals where it is used to reduce impurities.…
OUTDOORS EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has loosened the proposed emissions directive on outdoors mobile equipment, exempting chainsaws and granting more generous emission limits and longer compliance deadlines to manufacturers of generators, pumps and the engines for snow-throwers. MEP’s however accepted the rest of the package, which aims to cut pollution caused by machines such as lawnmowers and hedge trimmers.…
KYOTO LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENT representatives are to meet at Marrakesh, Morocco, from October 29 to November 9 to add detail to the Kyoto Protocol global warming deal struck this summer in Bonn between all major industrialised nations excluding America. The Moroccan meeting should allow delegates to agree procedures and institutions needed to make the protocol fully operational.…
TOULOUSE EXPLOSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REVIEW of European safety laws designed to prevent industrial explosions – such as that which recently ripped through the Atofina fertiliser plant in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people and injuring 2,400 – is to be launched by a specialist EU committee.…
TRANSPORT REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXPENSIVE programmes and legislative initiatives made by the European Union to boost rail, shipping and combined transport, while shrinking the road transport sector, appear to be failing, according to a report TERM 2001, from the European Environment Agency.…
TOULOUSE EXPLOSION
Keith Nuthall
A REVIEW of European safety laws designed to prevent industrial explosions – such as that which recently ripped through the Atofina fertiliser plant in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people and injuring 2,400 – is to be launched by a specialist EU committee.…
LAX TAX
BY ALAN OSBORN AND KEITH NUTHALL
A NUMBER of tax regimes run by European Union countries are being investigated by the European Commission, which is following up suspicions that they are so loose, they amount to a breach of the EU’s competition laws.…
SAT PHONES
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORTH of iridium satellite phones as a standby communications facility of last resort, has been demonstrated, say its supporters, by the key role the technology played in the aftermath of the catastrophes of September 11.
Indeed, advocates of these comms systems have been vindicated, as the mobiles once mocked for being ineffective near tall buildings and trees, as well as being ludicrously expensive to run, proved instrumental in helping emergency workers and security officials communicate at the scene of the terrorist disasters.…