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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to allow Finland to re-impose restrictions on the beer that its citizens can import from Russia, because of fears of runaway cross-border sales. Under EU directive 69/169/EEC, private travellers would normally be entitled to import 200 litres of beer from third countries into Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has delayed agreement of new regulations governing how metal ore mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt; sulphides are found around volcanic areas and crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has postponed agreement of new regulations governing how mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt, with the sulphides being found around volcanic areas and the crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of drinks industry legislative proposals it will abandon under a drive by the current regime to simplify European Union (EU) laws and its political process. Brussels is to drop a proposed directive insisting rules for drinks ingredients labelling for beverages containing more than 1.2% of alcohol by volume are adopted within a certain timeframe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of proposed nuclear industry measures it will abandon to simplify the European Union’s (EU) political workload. Brussels is dropping a 2003 proposal to conclude an ‘agreement on a multilateral nuclear environmental programme in Russia’ and a related ‘protocol on claims, legal proceedings and indemnification’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of restrictions imposed on exports to European buyers of leather raw materials have been highlighted in the detailed European Union (EU) market report. It identifies India, China, the US, Pakistan and Russia as “very important markets” for the supply of leather raw materials, whilst Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Malaysia and Brazil are labelled as “important suppliers (mainly by tanners)”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OIL price rises wrought by Hurricane Katrina and endemic strong global demand have encouraged European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs to press ahead with his plans to promote energy conservation in the EU. He has released a paper stressing the need to accelerate the European Action Plan on energy efficiency and also to promote more effective international action on the topic bilaterally and through the International Energy Agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S remote far-east Kamchatka peninsular is something of a sacred cow for conservationists, so it is no surprise the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has undertaken a detailed environmental impact assessment for a gold and silver mine project in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed calls from the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for increased European Union (EU) tariff protection against dumped styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic rubber (SBS), an adhesive ingredient. Furthermore, it has proposed abolishing existing anti-dumping duties on the product on Taiwanese producers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
VETS and government officials of the 25 EU member states were due to meet in Brussels yesterday (Thursday) to consider whether more European farmers should be banned from keeping poultry outdoors as a precaution against bird flu. The Netherlands has already introduced a ban and Germany may follow suit in the next few weeks.…