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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked all European Union Member States to provide information about how they are controlling substances that damage the ozone layer. Member States were required to provide this information by the end of last year, but the data has not been submitted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WORK is a lot more dangerous and unhealthy in the countries that will join the European Union in 2004 and later, than it is in the existing EU. A study by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions finds there is “nearly double the risk to health and safety at work in the candidate countries.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Ombudsman has welcomed the fact that the European Commission has re-examined import permits granted to a Russian game exporter, which were issued by Brussels officials who had enjoyed hospitality from the applicant. However, although the Ombudsman’s call for further checks on Sweden-based company Norrfrys Ab Was complied with, the Commission conformed its earlier decision.…

ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition by the Italian weaving machinery manufacturer Promatech SpA, of Sulzer Textil, the textile machinery division of the Swiss company Sulzer Ltd.

Competition approval was given after Promatech agreed to divest itself of rapier weaving machines operations in Verona in Italy and Solothurn in Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union labelling rules have been set by the European Commission insisting that food and drink products sold in the EU containing caffeine or quinine must list these ingredients on their packaging. Labels would also have to declare any high caffeine content in products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A RELAXATION of European Union rules governing British slaughterhouses and processing plants has been agreed by the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and will enter into force after formal adoption by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL calls for research proposals from energy companies and institutes have been released by the European Commission, which has Euro 198 million to spend this year on studies that promote sustainable energy. The funding comes from the recently agreed Euro 16.2 billion European Union (EU) Sixth Framework Programme for research, which runs until 2006.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RIGHTS and obligations flowing from international agreements entered into by the European Coal and Steel Community, which will cease to exist on July 23 when the ECSC treaty expires, are to be transferred to the main European Community, (usually known as the European Union).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is to be taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission for allegedly failing to prioritise the processing of waste oils by regeneration, supposedly breaking the Waste Oils Directive. The UK is also facing an ECJ case over claims that it has not implemented the Landfill Directive for the whole country, notably in Northern Ireland.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A DYNAMIC online forum on European energy policy has been launched by an international consortium; the European Union-funded INTUSER website contains information about current energy issues and questionnaires allowing specialists and the public to contribute to policy debates. The three year project’s website includes special sections on alternative, renewable, fossil and nuclear energy.…