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KEITH NUTHALL
TENDERS have been invited by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to set up a combined heat and power plant at Voznesensk tannery, in the Ukraine. It would be operated by the Ukrainian Energy Service Company and would command a total installed electric power of 1,9-2,2 MW, with two or more gas-fired piston engines equipped with a flue gas heat recovery system, producing hot water of up to 90?.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed an expensive twin-track programme to secure the European Union’s energy supplies, diversifying production by promoting renewables and limiting demand by boosting energy saving initiatives.

It has asked EU ministers to spend Euro 215 million on its planned Intelligent Energy for Europe programme, which would span 2003 to 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN a groundbreaking legal move, the European Commission has proposed a regulation that would force courts and other judicial authorities across the EU to recognise an uncontested order secured by a creditor, for the recovery of owed money held in another Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to order tests on all imports of shrimps from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, (Burma),and poultry from Thailand to ensure antibiotic residues do not exceed EU health limits, following concerns raised by spot-checks on cargoes from these countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is to use its satellites to check the implementation of environmental treaties, monitoring forest growth under Kyoto, their shrinkage under the Convention to Combat Desertification and the survival of wetlands under the Ramsar Convention.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to impose 100 per cent retaliatory duties on US exports of ball-point, felt-tipped, fountain and stylograph pens, as well as propelling or sliding pencils, pen-holders, pencil-holders, plus caps and clips. Brussels wants to impose the duties on June 18 in response to the controversial ‘safeguard’ duties erected by Washington to protect its steel industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission and OLAF are again deciding how to handle allegations about professional wrongdoing in Brussels by EU whistleblower Paul van Buitenen. This time, instead of being suspended, the official was given eight week’s grace from regular duties and a special office to compile his brief.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US and European corrugated container industries have announced a harmonisation of their two standards. America’s Fibre Box Association (FBA) and the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) have developed a standard called the Corrugated Common Footprint. It was developed so that box makers could provide trays that perform well throughout the supply chain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered tests on all imports of shrimps from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, (Burma), and poultry from Thailand to ensure antibiotic residues do not exceed EU health limits, following concerns raised by spot-checks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been warned by the European Commission that it risks being fined if it continues to flout a European Court of Justice ruling that it allow the import of British beef.…