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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on whether water companies are responsible under European Union (EU) law for cleaning up escaped sewage could force the UK government to consider national reforms. Judges ruled the clean-up of escaped solid waste was not covered by the 1991 EU urban waste water directive, and the 1975 waste framework directive would not apply either if there were detailed national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over claims it has failed to ensure the correct implementation of the European Union’s (EU) landfill directive throughout the United Kingdom.

The directive imposes environmental and health standards on the operation and closure of landfills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN’S Department for Communities and Local Government has been warned by the European Commission that it must sort out shortcomings in its auditing of European Union regional development spending in England or risk aid payments worth millions of Euros being suspended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SERIES of detailed and striking data-based images has been released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) starkly portraying western Europe’s density of development, and hence its exposure to environmental health problems. These make up the ‘Corine Land Cover 2000’ database, which offers information on land cover and land cover changes over the past decade in 32 European countries, using photo-interpretation of satellite images.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN academics think of European Union (EU) funding for their projects or institutions, they often consider the European Commission, with its high profile in education and research spending through its framework programmes. But there is another EU institution developing an increasingly important role as a financial fountainhead for European higher education: the European Investment Bank (EIB).…

BY MARK ROWE, in Bristol, England

A NEW generation of biofuels is set to radically overhaul the non-fossil fuel market, providing opportunities and challenges for the automotive manufacturing industry, with many innovations emerging from Europe. Until recently, the question of biofuels has been limited, mainly, to biodiesel and bioethanol made from crops such as cereals, soybean and palm oil.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Balderson, Ontario

STRONG family links and a dislike of European Union bureaucracy was what brought David James, 62, to Canada to start over again. In 1998, the James family, including wife Ann, 61, daughter Debra, 39, and son-in law Rob, 39, packed up their belongings and moved to a small farming community called Balderson, roughly 50 miles from Canada’s capital, Ottawa.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE FIRST appearance of counterfeit "supernotes" in America last year has the US Secret Service concerned – not so much because of the volume of these forged US dollar bills as because of the superb skill with which they’re made.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a list of priority projects that will draw in EU funding and diplomatic support under its 2007-13 trans European network (TENs) energy programme. Agreed with the European Parliament, the schemes are designed to fulfil the EU’s energy policy goals of improving security of supply, especially from outside member states, and underpinning Europe’s internal market in gas and electricity.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas

THERE is another side to the loss of life and devastation wreaked in the USA by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis last year, a market reaction that has brought unsought benefits to the US paint and coatings industry.…