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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been strongly criticised by the European Ombudsman over its unquestioning acceptance of an altered report allocating blame for attacks on fishing gear in Ireland. The Ombudsman has found the Commission guilty of “maladministration” in accepting significant revisions to the report without querying the reasons or even making an inquiry into the changes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) wants the European Commission to call for changes to the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, allowing non-American companies to be sued in US courts for alleged human rights, labour and environmental offences committed in third countries.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE IMMEDIATE challenge posed by global warming to the petroleum industry – reducing carbon dioxide while maintaining low-regulated emissions – has to be combined with care that consumers can afford resulting new technologies and fuels, a Royal Institute for International Affairs’ climate technology conference in London heard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN law is to guarantee the rights of European Union (EU) citizens to access environmental information, participate in environmental decision-making and grant them the right to bring public authorities to court over this policy area, if EU ministers agree a proposal from the European Commission.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A RESEARCH paper from the respected University of Uppsala, in Sweden, has set off an intense debate amongst climate change specialists by claiming that there are not enough recoverable oil and gas reserves worldwide to lead to previously predicted disastrous global warming scenarios.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference is being staged in Brussels this week, which will examine how to create realistic risk perceptions about controversial subjects, where public concern can significantly influence democratic government policies. The European Commission organised event will especially focus on food safety, where fears about biotechnology – especially on genetically modified foodstuffs – have forced European Union (EU) institutions and governments to take a very cautious stance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHOULD international organisations be held liable when they fail to achieve tasks set out in their formal objectives? The question has been posed by the United Nations’ (UN) International Law Commission and is currently being debated at the UN general assembly’s legal committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN law is to guarantee the rights of European Union (EU) citizens to access environmental information, participate in environmental decision-making and grant them the right to bring environmental violations to courts, if EU ministers agree a proposal from the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have welcomed the European Commission’s environment and health strategy for 2004-2010, approving its initial focus on childhood respiratory diseases, asthma, allergies; neuro-developmental disorders; child cancer and endocrine disrupters.

Ministers called on the Commission to develop research models to assess the health impact of public policies, (and associated socio-economic affects), especially on children and other vulnerable groups.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research group investigating wave energy has called for greater efforts to publicise the technology, to help neutralise environmental opposition to proposed projects. The WaveNet thematic network claims that “by far the biggest barrier” to public acceptance of wave energy is its low public profile.…