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KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION from European Union-funded research has continued to offer improvements to the way that EU water utilities work. For instance, the European Commission-funded MicroChem initiative has developed miniaturised laboratory-on-a-chip systems suitable for rapid field testing of water streams. They examine water in tiny pictolitre quantities, flowing through microbore channels produced by photolithographic etching.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended for at least three months the preferential zero tariff on sugar imported into the European Union from Serbia & Montenegro. Brussels acted because of concerns at European anti-fraud office OLAF, that local rules of origin controls are too weak to prevent sugar being illicitly exported to Serbia & Montenegro and then re-exported into the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended for at least three months the preferential zero tariff on sugar imported into the European Union from Serbia & Montenegro. Brussels acted because of concerns at European anti-fraud office OLAF, that local rules of origin controls are too weak to prevent sugar being illicitly exported to Serbia & Montenegro and then re-exported into the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Bank report has called on the governments of the Balkans to pay more attention to the quality of their respective water sources and supplies, warning that neglect is leading to increases in pollution and damage from flooding.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has agreed a complicated, but flexible, set of anti-dumping duties to be levied upon certain flat rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel from Bulgaria, South Africa, Serbia & Montenegro and Taiwan; plus certain iron and steel tube and pipe fittings from Thailand, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Slovakia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will spend Euro 69 million this year on a major overhaul of Serbia’s Nikola Tesla A5 and B1 thermal power plants, as well as funding training programmes and making management improvements in its energy sector.…

KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION from European Union-funded research has continued to offer improvements to the way that EU water utilities work. For instance, the European Commission-funded MicroChem initiative has developed miniaturised laboratory-on-a-chip systems suitable for rapid field testing of water streams. They examine water in tiny pictolitre quantities, flowing through microbore channels produced by photolithographic etching.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS AMERICAN and British military forces secure control of Iraq from the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein using the latest military technology, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a cautionary report confirming for the first time that depleted uranium shells can and have contaminated drinking water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GRANTS totalling Euro 5 million from the European Commission, Eurocontrol and the Joint Aviation Authorities have been approved for the strengthening Balkans atc services. Funnelled through the EU Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (CARDS) programme, the funds will support civil aviation authorities and air traffic services in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Macedonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is planning to lend Euro 12.5 million to Serbia & Montenegro fruit juice company fresh&Co. The loan will help the company strengthen its brands and its distribution networks. A bank memorandum said that the loan would enable the company to “provide a good example to other local food companies and retailers of good practice in distribution,” adding it would “also contribute to continued improvement of quality and availability of fruit juices in the market.”…