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BY MARK ROWE
A TEAM of scientists has visited Bosnia and Herzegovina amidst concerns that 12 areas of the country were contaminated with harmful radiation after being targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium (DU) during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) so-called Seveso II directive, which imposes duties on industrial plants to protect against and prepare for accidents, has been strengthened by the EU’s Council of Ministers (environment); it has agreed to proposed changes extending the “appropriate safety distances” between industrial establishments and major transport routes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission, which claims that Paris is breaking European Union (EU) public procurement rules governing the buying of goods and services by utilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CONCEPT of nation building is not new. Powerful governments have for centuries sought to create pliant political administrations which would do their bidding, without being directly under their control. It is, after all, in noone’s interest for a territory to descent into chaos.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
TEN of the 15 European Union (EU) Member States have so far failed to bring in national legislation putting into effect the end-of-life vehicles directive agreed in 2000 and could face legal action in the European Court of Justice, the Europe Commission announced today (Monday).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has been censured by the European Court of Justice for failing to write into its national laws a European Union (EU) directive, which would make it easier for lawyers to work across the EU.

Directive 98/5/EC on the practice of the profession of lawyer on a permanent basis in a Member State other than that in which the qualification was acquired imposes duties on national governments to register foreign EU lawyers and allow them to work on their territories.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has reached a negative conclusion about the environmental impact of aquaculture in European Union (EU) lakes and seas, saying that the “dramatic increase” in the size of the industry since 1970 had created “an increased pressure on water and ecological quality in those waters affected.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EU environment ministers have broadened the scope of new legislation amending the present Seveso Two directive which imposes duties on industrial plants to protect against and prepare for accidents. Changes made by the EU’s Council of Environment Ministers will highlight the importance of ensuring “appropriate safety distances between industrial establishments and major transport routes,” the European Commission said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMERGENCY response networks that have been built up across the European Union (EU) in the wake of the September 11 disaster are being tested next week in Brussels’ first ever civil protection exercise.

Euratox 2002 will simulate a terror attack involving radiological and chemical fall-out and be staged at a French military camp at Canjuers, Var, Côte-d’Azur.…

Keith Nuthall
BRITAIN remained an averagely taxed economy compared with its competitor rich nations in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a new report from this international think-tank. It says that the share of Britain’s GDP represented by tax take remained at 37.4 per cent in 2001, the same as in 2000.…