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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JOINT research project, involving specialists from across the EU, is to examine whether the electromagnetic fields created by mobile telephones is damaging to human health.

The subject is one of none recently identified by the Committee of Senior Officials for Scientific and Technical Research (COST), an EU-managed body that promotes cooperation amongst European scientists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is to provide an eight-year Euro 400 million loan to Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson to fund R&D activities at its ‘Centres of Excellence,’ in the EU and central Europe. The money will pay for the development of improved management and operations of third generation mobile telephone networks, allowing the transmission of large data volumes at high speed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BEEF consumption within the European Union has continued to rise, despite the Foot and Mouth crisis, according to EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler, who maintains there is a “slow but steady recovery.” He has claimed that consumption is now just 5.7 per cent lower than the same period last year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
JUST when it appeared Christmas marketing was reaching a nadir, Woolworth is being accused of stooping to an all time low, by insisting the reason for selling new Mother Christmas outfits alongside Father Christmas attire was to satisfy EU gender equality regulations, and not to extract more money from consumers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided not to oppose the granting of Euro 143 million, (Pounds 86 million) state aid by Italy to the Franco-Italian company ST Microelectronics for three research projects costing Euro 456 million, (Pounds 275 million).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission announced this week (Monday October 29) that it will ban from June 30, 2003, the use of chemical product hexachloroethane, (HCE), in the manufacture or processing of all non-ferrous metals where it is used to reduce impurities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT of the cost of European Commission plans to introduce legislation to control the emission of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons has been released in Brussels. The study examines the benefits to human health of reducing concentrations of PAH’s in the air to meet different possible limit values, and the economic costs involved in meeting them.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of the conditions that it will probably attach to applications by EU Member States to pay state aid to airlines to fund insurance cover, at a time when private companies have been withdrawing policies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to impose 11.3 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on imports from Japan of internal gear hubs for bicycles, notably those from Shimano Inc. The formal proposal for approval by EU ministers follows an earlier decision to erect provisional anti-dumping duties.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AN ADVOCATE General of the European Court of Justice has ruled that by using the value of a new car as a yardstick for determining the taxes on an imported second-hand vehicle, Finland is violating EU treaty regulations.…