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UNDERAGE DRINKING
Keith Nuthall
MEMBER States of the European Union have come under political pressure from Brussels to outlaw the designing and marketing of alcoholic drinks, such as alcopops, to children and adolescents, as part of a move against under-age drinking.
The EU Council of Ministers (health) has adopted a Recommendation, (formal non-binding guidelines), which calls on national governments to “ensure” that the drinks industry does not produce alcoholic beverages specifically “targeted, designed or promoted to appeal” to young people.…
EFA LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MINISTERS from the 15 EU member governments have cut back the proposed representation of the European Commission on the management board that will run the new European Food Authority. Instead of four members on the 16-member panel, the Commission is to have only one.…
WALES AID
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced grants equivalent to Pounds nine million for the promotion of rural development in Wales, which will be able to be sourced and directed by local authorities. The cash will underpin investment of pounds 18.5 million over the five years to 2006, with Pounds 900,000 coming from the private sector.…
GM COTTON
BY ALAN OSBORN
SPECIAL care should be taken to make sure that GM cotton fibres do not pose a health risk when used in medical products, the European Union’s Scientific Steering Committee, which advises the European Commission on legislation, has said.…
RESEARCH PROGRAMME
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Road Federation has called for a rethink regarding a proposed new four-year research programme, which will probably command a budget of around Euro 17.5 billion. It claims that the European Commission wants to focus too many resources on new areas of research, such as nanotechnology and genomics, at the expense of achieving the EU transport goals.…
IRELAND
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has announced that it is providing a Euro 125 million loan for improvements at the three largest airports in the Republic of Ireland. The money will be lent to Aer Rianta Finance plc, wholly owned by Aer Rianta cpt, for work on passenger terminals, aircraft aprons and ancillary services at Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports.…
TEXTILE MONTH
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has promised to “significantly improve” its import quota and tariff arrangements for cotton exports from Egypt under an Association Agreement that has recently been signed by Brussels and Cairo. However European Commission officials told Textile Month that there was unlikely to be any dramatic increases in Egyptian shipments because of concessions already made by the EU to Egypt in recent years under a pre-existing economic cooperation agreement.…
FRANCE DISTILLATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has agreed to allow yet another Member State to stretch the agreement underlying the new common market organisation in wine, by approving a large national handout for compulsory distillation. In a move that it likely to dismay the European Commission, ministers agreed to allow France to grant exceptional national aid to producers for distillation of 1.5 million hectolitres of wine.…
CONTAMINATION REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROTECTION of the public from accidental contamination created by nuclear radiation does not just involve nuclear energy or defence installations, a European Commission report on radiation protection has pointed out. Other industries also use what are known as “elevated contents of naturally occurring radionuclides, (NORMs),” and these sites often require special radioactive clean-ups.…
SHORT-CHAIN PARAFFIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved moves to ban short-chain chlorinated paraffin, (SCCP), from being used in leather finishing. The rule will be framed as an amendment to Directive 76/769/EEC on restrictions on the marketing and use of dangerous substances and preparations.…