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KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY on the environmental performance of Estonia’s two main electricity generators has concluded that significant investment will be required to enable them to attain the European Union standards that they must achieve when the Baltic country becomes a EU Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN football association UEFA launched a joint-anti smoking campaign with the European Commission on the eve of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The two organisations booked television advertising space to broadcast their anti-tobacco message, using international footballers including French star Zinedine Zidane and Portugal’s Luis Figo.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has sought to counteract criticism that the EU is failing to sufficiently help small cotton producers in Africa. In a public statement, he has highlighted the ongoing liberalisation of import quotas, notably the duty free access for cotton from the ACP (Africa, Carabbean and Pacific) countries that have close links with Brussels.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN a further sign of recovery from the fraught conditions of 2001, the Association of European Airlines has reported that air traffic in the European market rose by 2.8 per cent in the week to May 12th. This marked only the third weekly gain since the sharp fall in civil aviation which followed the political and military turbulence of last year.…

BY MARK ROWE
BRITISH museums and historic buildings are being encouraged to bid for funding from a GBPounds 80 million financial support package launched by the European Union, designed to build links between neighbouring EU countries.

Its grant awards will be focused on projects that have economic, ecological and social benefits.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THOUSANDS of tonnes of mildly radioactive steel could come onto the European market because of pressure on countries waiting to join the European Union to dismantle their decrepit Russian-built nuclear power stations. Aware of the need to assuage public distrust of even the lowest levels of radioactivity, the European Union’s Joint Research Centre is investigating the levels of radiation likely to be involved in this steel, taken from buildings that do not house the reactor itself.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union Commissioner for competition policy, Mario Monti, has

stated his willingness to consider a postponement of the key location

clauses of the proposed reform of the block exemption system for new car

sales, with implementation being delayed beyond 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched a comprehensive research programme to unmask mysteries surrounding the contraction of venous thrombosis by air passengers, including epidemiological, pathophysiological and clinical studies.

Scientists will aim to determine the frequency and causes of travellers’ thrombosis, to identify who is at greatest risk and what may be done to prevent the condition.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL that biofuels should be made exempt from excise duty within the European Union has been made in Brussels. The idea has been suggested by the Committee of the Regions, which represents powerful sub-national administrations, such as those for Scotland, Wales, Catalonia and Bavaria.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A CONTROVERSIAL revision of the EU’s directive on airport landing and take-off slots which would reduce historic rights and open the market to new entrants has received broad approval from the European Parliament’s transport committee. The Association of European Airlines has expressed “grave concern” about aspects of the legislation.…