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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has – almost certainly – a new tobacco advertising directive, which its framers will hope will be more legally robust than its predecessor; struck down by the European Court of Justice. The EU Council of Ministers saved the European Parliament from having to debate the proposal a second time by accepting the few amendments that were agreed at a parliamentary plenary session in November.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PROPOSALS by the European Commission to ban state aid for the disposal of slaughterhouse waste and fallen stock could put many British slaughterhouses out of business, said Robert Kennard, a spokesman for small abattoir operators.

Under the Brussels plan, state aid for the disposal of slaughterhouse waste of any kind would be made illegal from the start of 2003, though European Union (EU) Member States would be given leeway in exceptional circumstances to grant 50 per cent aid for the disposal of specified risk material and meat and bone meal with no further commercial use.…

From Alan Osborn
The UK has been given the go-ahead by the European Commission to provide up to pounds 3 millions in state aid to help road freight companies reduce carbon dioxide emissions over the next four years. Brussels said the schemes being considered under the UK Logistics Transaction Programme could help prevent about 350,000 tonnes of carbon emissions which would count as part of Britain’s commitments under the Kyoto protocol on climate change.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has trimmed Euro 25 million from a planned new Intelligent Energy for Europe programme, which extends existing EU programmes promoting energy conservation and renewables.

Ministers agreed that Euro 190 million should be spent on the 2003-6 programme, which must be jointly agreed with the European Parliament.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada

THE EFFECTS of September 11 have left their mark on the relationship between air traffic control national service providers (ANSPs) and their customers. The economic fall-out from the terrorist attacks now defines much of the dialogue between ANSPs, airlines and airports.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AS with any organisation that represents members with a common basic purpose but often with radically different approaches towards achieving it, CANSO has had some difficulty in defining its voice in the community in which it operates. Indeed it is a fairly new organisation, formally set up in 1998, and composed of leading civil air navigation service operators who until then had been used to speaking their own minds without any need to temper their opinions.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT air traffic management (ATM) is flawed in many ways; one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago.

Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSP’s) have a responsibility to ensure that the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT ATM system is flawed in many ways – one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago. ANSPs have a responsibility to ensure the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WHILE it may seem that big brand names have been shut out of American confectionary shelves of health stores, in reality several multinational food giants have been very actively pursuing the organic foods sector, albeit through the back door.…

Keith Nuthall
INSURANCE companies must brace themselves for exposure to US$150 billion in liabilities from natural disasters linked to global warming, says a new United Nations report, co-authored by industry heavy hitters, such as Prudential and Swiss Re. ‘Climate Change and the Financial Services Industry’ advises the insurance industry to follow an action plan, to withstand policy payouts for floods, storms, forest-fires and other natural disasters, which it says “appear to be doubling every decade and have reached one trillion US dollars in the past 15 years.”…