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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission looks likely to be blocked from forcing the UK and Dutch governments to repay Euro 7.4 million’s worth of subsidies for downsizing their fishing fleets by transferring two boats apiece to Argentina. Brussels was angered when both countries subsequently registered four replacement vessels, claiming this contravened the grants’ conditions.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

EUROPEAN Union (EU) lawmakers are stepping up the development of a legally binding technical standard to ensure the safe operation of hydrogen fuel cells in road vehicles. The European Commission has begun a public consultation (which runs until September 15) on the matter, seeking to ensure that the rapid technical development of hydrogen power by automakers is not held back by safety fears and conflicting national safety rules.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

TWO years after it was launched, the European Union’s (EU) RAPEX system for alerting safety authorities and consumers to auto and other product safety problems and recalls has been accepted by Europe’s automotive industry. This is despite it regularly circulating bad news about safety and other defects, associated with some of the biggest names in the EU auto sector.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is taking another serious step towards developing viable transport systems running on hydrogen, whose only emission is water. Following the success of its CUTE trials of hydrogen buses in large cities such as London, the EU is launching two more projects.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SUB-SAHARAN Africa’s biggest cotton producer Mali is mulling GM cotton trials, a development which could open up cheap cotton supplies for the textile and clothing trade.

But resistance from local farmers to high seed costs and tough times for existing GM cotton growers in South Africa – the only African country where GM is commercially grown – may mean that Africa’s potential as a key supplier is still some way off.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is expanding the European Union’s (EU) international trial of hydrogen vehicles beyond the ongoing successful CUTE bus project that has involved London. It has announced two fresh projects: ZERO REGIO running eight fuel-cell passenger cars in Frankfurt and Mantova; and HyCHAIN:MINITRANS operating 158 small transport vehicles (minivans, minibuses, scooters, cargo bicycles and wheel chairs) in France, Germany, Spain and Italy.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IS the fuel cell bus a runner? The question is key to any passenger transport executive’s decisions on how to meet increasingly stringent emission controls, and the continuing EU HyFLEET:CUTE trials of a fleet of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell Daimler-Benz Citaro buses in London will help UK transport planners to decide for themselves.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AN ALL-INDIA topper in school, the best performer in 1980 within his country’s Chartered Accountants’ Institute, and the first to hoist the sail of accountancy-outsourcing to India: Sunil Goel, 49, combines his academic knowledge, business skills and passion for information technology to reap the benefits of globally expanding business.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

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FOUR highly diverse collections have made it through to the shortlist for the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries. Brunel’s SS Great Britain at Bristol; The Collection – Lincoln’s new museum of art and archaeology; the new underground gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield; and the modernised galleries for the medical collection at the Hunterian Museum in London are now competing for the GBPounds 100,000 prize and the kudos that goes with it.…