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AIR QUALITY REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT of the cost of European Commission plans to introduce legislation to control the emission of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons has been released by Brussels. The study examines the benefits to human health of reducing concentrations of PAH’s in the air to meet different possible limit values, and theh economic costs involved in meeting them.…
INFLUENZA VACCINE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has recommended the composition of a influenza vaccine for the 2002 southern hemisphere flu season. It has concluded that the medicine should include an A/Moscow/10/99(H3N2)-like virus, an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus and a B/Sichuan/379/99-like virus.…
SPANISH PRACTICES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STATE aid inquiry has been launched by the European Commission into concerns that restrictions on the payment of further state aid by the Spanish government to porcelain manufacturer Grupo de Empresas Álvarez, (GEA), in Vigo, Galicia, have been circumvented.…
CHINA WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL mining companies are to find it easier to work in China, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…
SSM/RHEINBRAUN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed takeover of SSM Coal BV, of the Netherlands, by Germany’s Rheinbraun Brennstoff GmbH, concluding after an inquiry that the deal would not create competition problems in the EU petcoke market.
Rheinbraun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the German RWE Group, distributes coal and other solid fuels.…
ECSC TREATY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REGULATIONS governing the proposed new Coal and Steel Research Fund, that is to replace the outgoing European Coal and Steel Community next year, should allow for its budget to be reviewed when the EU admits new members from eastern Europe, the European Parliament’s budget committee has claimed.…
ECJ FERRO-SILICON
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LIAISON committee of the European Union ferro-alloy industry Euroalliages has lost a case at the European Court of Justice, where it was trying to force the European Commission to reconsider its decision not to re-impose anti-dumping duties on imports into the EU of ferro-silicon from Poland and Egypt.…
CLEAN AIR ACT
BY KATE REW
OLDER coal fired power plants in the US are now in some confusion over whether they will be found in violation of the US Clean Air Act because of law suits and enforcement actions filed by the former Clinton administration against 13 power companies for violations at 51 plants in 12 states.…
CHINA WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOREIGN investors will be blocked from controlling Internet, third generation mobile and other telecommunications joint ventures in China under the final deal struck over its accession to the World Trade Organisation, a briefing paper from officials in Geneva has said.…
CHINA WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOREIGN investors will be blocked from controlling Internet, third generation mobile and other telecommunications joint ventures in China under the final deal struck over its accession to the World Trade Organisation, a briefing paper from officials in Geneva has said.…