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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE deal over third party access to gas pipelines has been agreed between German joint venture BEB and the European Commission, leading to Brussels closing its competition investigation into the company’s refusal to allow Norway’s Marathon to pump gas into its infrastructure.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAI farmers of black tiger prawns have launched a series of protests across the country calling for a ban on cheap imports of prawns from neighbouring countries. The farmers are angry that the prawns are simply processed and re-exported, undercutting their own market in the process.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Convention – drawing up a constitution for the European Union – has dropped plans to incorporate the Euratom treaty in its articles. Instead, the Convention has suggested the EU and Euratom be legally separate. This has been welcomed by environmental groups, (such as Friends of the Earth), who claimed it would allow Member States to quit Euratom, without leaving the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PARLIAMENTARY Assembly of the Council of Europe is debating a plan to extend the European Convention on Human Rights with an additional protocol, guaranteeing European citizens decent environmental standards. If the proposal is carried forward, it would entail international lawyers drafting a clear definition of “a healthy environment” and the convention extension would “oblige states to protect individuals from environmental nuisances harmful or dangerous to health;” it is being promoted by the council’s committee on environment, agriculture and local and regional affairs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union proposals to make polluting energy companies and utilities legally liable for the environmental damage they cause has taken a large step towards becoming law, with EU Member States approving the idea in principle. The Council of Ministers’ decision removes the final serious hurdle to the planned environmental liability directive, as the European Parliament has already given its assent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a new long-term, strategy to fight health problems linked to the environment; it has been inspired by European Environment Agency figures saying 60,000 EU deaths a year are caused by air pollution.

Brussels has outlined the broad elements of this programme and will start public consultation on its details from next month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union proposals to make polluting companies legally liable for the environmental damage that they cause has taken a large step towards becoming law, with EU Member States approving the idea in principle. The Council of Ministers decision removes the final serious hurdle to the planned environmental liability directive, as the European Parliament has already given its assent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union proposals to make polluting companies legally liable for the environmental damage has taken a large step towards becoming law, with EU Member States approving the idea in principle, the European Parliament having already given its assent.…

BY PHILIP FINE

EMISSIONS trading programmes can achieve environmental goals faster and more economical than other alternative ecological policies, says report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The US group says that a well-designed and implemented cap-and-trade system ensures that environmental goals are met, regardless of where gases are emitted

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BY ALAN OSBORN
NOBODY likes nuclear waste but nobody has yet thought up a universally-acceptable way of disposing of it. This is as true in Europe as anywhere else. It may be fair to say, however, that some European countries have gone further than the rest of the world in drawing conclusions about the future of nuclear energy as a result of the problems caused by radioactive waste.…