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BIOTECHNOLOGY - EU
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is proposing to harmonise legislation authorising the procedures for marketing the sophisticated manufacturing processes involved in human tissue engineering. The first products being developed in this growing field include artificial skin, cartilage and bone. Brussels said that the novel technology required to make these products promised to change medical practice “profoundly” by regenerating diseased tissues and organs instead of just repairing them.…
VODKA PRODUCTION DIP
BY MARK ROWE
PRODUCTION of vodka and other hard liquors dropped in Russia last year, as the country’s bourgeoning middle class continued to choose more upmarket drinks. Analysts believe the trend may reflect the improvement of the Russian economy and the greater disposable incomes of white-collar workers.…
EU MEAT PRODUCTION LAW
BY ALAN OSBORN
MAJOR changes in European Union (EU) legislation that could vitally affect the meat processing industry are in prospect this year with the main elements likely to be agreed before the summer break. The outstanding single item according to Jean-Luc Meriaux – general secretary of the European Livestock and Meat Union – is the so-called “hygiene package” of three regulations and a directive which will be considered by the European Parliament at its second (and usually final) reading in March.…
NUCLEAR SUBSIDIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUPPORT has been secured within the European Parliament for a proposed increase in the borrowing ceiling for the European Union’s (EU) nuclear energy arm Euratom, raising it from the current Euro 400 million to 600 million. The approval did not come without strings however, with MEP’s calling for Euratom to be restricted in its spending of this money to projects improving safety, decommissioning plants or establishing storage and disposal facilities for radioactive waste and spent fuel.…
EASTERN EUROPE RENEWABLES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD WIDE Fund for Nature (WWF) has warned that the eight eastern European countries joining the European Union in May are failing to exploit their potential renewable energy capacity, making it harder for some to comply with the EU’s renewable energy directive.…
HERMITAGE MUSEUM
BY MARK ROWE
THE LARGEST museum in the world and – arguably – the grandest of them all, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is returning to its roots. In the middle of a long and painstaking modernisation process, the Russian museum is striving, in addition to the urgent physical restoration required to bring the museum into the 21st century, to recapture the ambience of its Imperial origins, when its vast palaces were the residence of the Tsars.…
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPULSORY pollution insurance could be introduced for companies at risk of breaking the proposed European Union (EU) environmental liability directive, under amendments approved to the legislation this week by the European Parliament.
The change tells the European Commission to check in five years’ time whether the directive has sparked private insurance and security instruments allowing polluters to cover themselves for potential liabilities.…
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY: 350 words
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPULSORY pollution insurance could be introduced for companies at risk of breaking the proposed European Union (EU) environmental liability directive, under amendments approved to the legislation this week by the European Parliament.
The change tells the European Commission to check in five years’ time whether the directive has sparked private insurance and security instruments allowing polluters to cover themselves for their potential liabilities.…
MUSEUM POLLUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGY being developed by a European Commission funded research project should allow curators to effectively monitor environmental pollution that can damage ancient treasures in museums and galleries. The MIMIC (microclimate indoor monitoring in cultural heritage preservation) project is using a range of sophisticated devices to deduce the effect of changes in humidity, temperature, light and pollutant levels (nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous acid and ozone).…
SUGAR COMPETITION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) competition Commissioner Mario Monti has called for reforms to the EU’s common market organisation for sugar, claiming that the existing regime stifles change in the sector. He said that usually his officials usually challenge market sharing agreements and price fixing.…