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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE nanotechnology technology has been trialled in the United States, effectively spraying a protective crystal crust on a New Mexico mountainside that had been left exposed to erosion by a fire. Its flames destroyed 5,000 acres of land considered sacred by the Taos Pueblo Native Indian group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Union (EU) are to introduce a new manufacturing standard in Europe, reducing the flammability of materials – including textiles – used inside cars. The draft UNECE regulation (which the EU is expected to support) covers “the burning behaviour of materials…ensuring a high level of safety and environmental protection.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) drinks importers are girding themselves for the imposition of heavy duties on a range of United States fruit juice exports, after the World Trade Organisation authorised EU retaliation to American protection of its steel industry, erected in breach of global trade laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations secretary general Kofi Annan has welcomed an agreement between the (former US President) Clinton Foundation and four pharmaceutical companies in developing countries to halve the price of anti-retroviral drugs treating HIV/AIDS. Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, of Johannesburg, South Africa; Cipla of Mumbai, India; Ranbaxy Laboratories, of Delhi, India; and Matrix Laboratories of Hyderabad, India, will cut the annual cost of drugs for each infected person to as little as US$140.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AUTHORITIES in the USA’s New Mexico have introduced plans to drastically raise taxes on all alcoholic beverages sold. Its congress has proposed a “dime a drink tax” (ten cents per drink) intended to raise funds to introduce more detoxification centres for alcoholics and educational programs in the state.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has come into force. The 1998 protocol focuses on 16 substances: 11 pesticides, 2 industrial chemicals and 3 by-products/contaminants and tells signatory countries to eliminate any discharges, emissions and losses of these POPs, which are thought to cause birth defects and reduce male sperm counts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has come into force. The 1998 protocol focuses on 16 substances: 11 pesticides, 2 industrial chemicals and 3 by-products/contaminants and tells signatory countries to eliminate any discharges, emissions and losses of these POPs, which are thought to cause birth defects and reduce male sperm counts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with the United States and has moved to impose retaliatory duties on a wide range of US meat industry exports over a row about American foreign sales corporations, which have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with the United States and has moved to impose retaliatory duties on US shrimp and prawn (in airtight containers) and tuna exports over a row about American foreign sales corporations, which have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organisation.…