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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission draft guidelines that would insist on the registration of all non-profit organisations in the European Union (EU), to guard against their abuse by terrorist groups, have been criticised by the London-based Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA).…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE EUROPEAN Commission is getting tougher on vehicle emissions from the public sector. A proposed new directive, announced on December 21 last year, puts public-sector green vehicle procurement in the spotlight. It was announced on the same day as tighter new emissions levels for petrol and diesel-driven cars and light vans under the Euro V requirements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNEP – RISK MANAGEMENT

A BOOK detailing practical ways in which governments can reduce the costs of dealing with major challenges such bird flu, terrorism and climate change has been released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GOVERNMENTS should make market-based environmental policies, such as taxes and emissions trading, are simple and reasonably priced, to ensure their success, a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report has said. Trading schemes, in particular, work better with "bigger markets and more participants", says the report, ‘Using the market for cost-effective environment policy – market-based instruments in Europe’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BRITISH nurses might be forgiven for thinking that the 25 eminent judges who make up the European Union’s (EU) top legal institution, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), have little in common with them, and they may well be right.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

AFTER years of uncertainty, a timetable has now been fixed for the elimination of the air conditioning gas HFC 134a from cars sold in the European Union (EU). No, this won’t mean an end to air conditioned autos in Europe any more: what the deal really means is that auto and component makers have been given a generously long time to come up with a new refrigerating agent that doesn’t affect the climate by emitting fluorinating greenhouse gases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COMMONWEALTH secretary-general Don McKinnon has welcomed Britain and France’s decision to raise billions of dollars for health and education in developing countries by floating bonds on financial markets. "This is a bold and major step forward in raising resources," he said.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE POLITICAL institutions of the European Union (EU) are debating how to join an international system that would protect EU manufacturers’ design rights across a wide range of non-European countries in one simple operation. In an initiative that could help auto manufacturers secure the creative aspects of their vehicle design from plagiarism, the European Commission wants to link the EU’s existing Community Design system, (which protects manufacturers’ designs within the 25 EU member states), to a global design registration system run by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a UN agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The EU’s main lending institution, the European Investment Bank, is to make a loan of £450 million to Transport for London (Tfl) to help finance construction of the East London Line Project (ELLP) – a key component of a pounds 10 billion programme to improve transport links for the 2012 Olympic Games.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE LATEST round of European Union (EU) proposals to tighten up laws fighting the use of illegally unsafe commercial shipping, announced on November 23, 2005, will place shippers who want to continue operating in EU-controlled waters under closer scrutiny than ever, says the European Commission.…