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BY PHILIP FINE

IN the era of the Kyoto Protocol, where polluters pay more environmentally friendly businesses and services for ‘carbon credits’, a group has been formed to ready the food industry to profit from the situation. The Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases groups nine US universities and several American government agencies to set out the financial benefits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have welcomed the European Commission’s plan to develop the EU’s first environment and health strategy (for 2004-2010), calling on Brussels officials to develop research models assessing the health impact of public policies, (and associated socio-economic affects).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure applied by the European Union (EU) on its Member States to improve the environmental performance of their water sectors is failing to achieve the desired results, according to a report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health Commissioner David Byrne has revealed that the European Commission is planning to update European Union (EU) packaging legislation regarding so-called ‘active’ and ‘intelligent’ packaging. Speaking in Brussels, Mr Byrne said officials were examining how to update the existing 1989 directive “materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs”.…

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
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
AFTER a long period of consultation, a comprehensive directive protecting the European Union’s (EU) groundwater reserves has been proposed by the European Commission, which would force Member States to establish and police locally sensitive pollution limits. The legislation would insist that national governments carefully monitor groundwater quality and take steps to reverse its pollution, where it has exceeded these self-imposed thresholds.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE INSURANCE industry has reacted with a chorus of dismay to a sweeping proposal by the European Commission to eliminate gender discrimination in the supply of goods and services. The central element in the Brussels plan is that the use of sex as a factor in the calculation of premiums and benefits for insurance and related financial services would be outlawed.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WILL there be no end to the European Commission’s financial mismanagement before somebody is made to take the blame? We ask this in the light of the latest annual report by the European Court of Auditors which, for the ninth year running, has refused to sign off the accounts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a regulation that would authorise the sale in the European Union (EU) of drinks in so-called ‘active’ or ‘intelligent’ packaging that interacts with a product, transmitting information to consumers about its quality. These inventions can be incorporated into glass bottles or even coffee machines, but they are currently banned in the EU, where legislation blocks the sale of packaging touching food and drink that generates a chemical reaction with the product.…