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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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MORE details of the European Commission’s plan for a new and Sixth Framework Research Programme have been released from Brussels, with the announcement of a proposed new independent nuclear studies budget of Euro 900 million.

If the plan is approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, this would be used for research into nuclear fission and fusion “centring around the treatment and storage of nuclear waste as well as reactor safety,” a Commission statement said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LACK of coordination amongst EU Member States’ research teams regarding the study of BSE has been revealed by a new European inventory of previous work and that in progress, collated by the European Commission.

It has highlighted areas where better links between national research programmes is required.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled a series of new proposals that it intends to make in the latter half of this year, during the Belgian presidency of the European Union. In a statement issued by the Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection, officials have that they intend to follow up the White Paper on Food Safety, issued in January 2000, with formal proposals including:

*A revision of the directive on the control of foot-and-mouth disease, drawing on the experience of the recent outbreak;

*Amendments for a revised directive on livestock and poultry diseases, including measures to control salmonella;

*A new regulation harmonising and reinforcing official controls on food and animal feed;

*Plans to phase out the use of four remaining antibiotics authorised for use in feed and fodder;

*A strategy to reduce the presence of dioxin in feed and food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has complied with a ruling from the European Ombudsman, who backed the right of Friends of the Earth to read environmental studies regarding the compliance of the UK and Gibraltar with directives on waste, hazardous waste and habitats.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER States of the European Union now have a legal duty to hold full-scale environmental impact assessments of proposed projects in a number of specific sectors, including transport and waste management, when they call in planning applications from local authorities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is drafting a policy paper, (Communication), on the conservation of soil quality within the European Union and the prevention of its degradation. Brussels has launched public consultation on its contents, before releasing a final version.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have reached political agreement on two new proposed directives that are supposed to ensure the safe disposal of discarded electrical equipment, including computers and household appliances.

The Council of Ministers, (environment), has backed the directive on the treatment of waste from electrical and electronic equipment and the directive on the limitation of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHIPPING industry is looking forward to the anticipated accession of China to the World Trade Organisation, which after 15 years of often tortuous negotiations, is likely to be rubber stamped this autumn and become reality next Spring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in the European Union are unprepared for the introduction of single European currency notes and coins next January, even though they have a crucial role in spreading information among small businesses and community groups, the European Commission has claimed.…