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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TOP level EU delegation will fly to Tokyo next week, (July 9), in a desperate bid to salvage the Kyoto Protocol from being wrecked by the intransigence of the Bush administration in Washington. Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom, and ministers from Belgium and Sweden, (representing the current and next EU presidencies), planned their mission after reports emerged from a summit meeting between Bush and Japan’s PM Junichiro Koizumi, that Tokyo would abandon the global warming treaty, if the US refused to sign.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH schools have featured in an international study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which highlighted good practice examples of how sensitive building design can help education.

The report, Designs for Learning: 55 Exemplary Educational Facilities, looked at how technological change in learning techniques – such as the Internet – and in environmental requirements – such as energy efficiency – has been incorporated in new schools, universities and colleges.…

BY DERIDRE MASON
MANY health and safety leaflets are going over their targets’ heads because the reading age needed to understand them is too high, delegates at the recent Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents health at work conference at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, heard.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a change in the organisation of the EU wine market aimed at encouraging young people into wine growing. Brussels said that some Member States had been pursuing active policies of generational replacement and these had proved their worth, “particularly in the wine sector where there is a great need to attract younger growers.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in the European Union are unprepared for the introduction of single European currency notes and coins next January, even though they have a crucial role in spreading information among small businesses and community groups, the European Commission has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPROMISE deal has been struck in Brussels over a transitional regime for the European Union sugar industry, which will last until July 2006, when a comprehensive review is expected to have taken place.

The European Commission had been pressing to deep cuts in market supports, but these have been resisted by some Member States, who are represented on the EU Council of Ministers, which approved the final agreement.…

KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farming companies and organisations have until September 30 to submit papers to the European Commission, if they want them to be considered as part of an ongoing review of the Common Fisheries Policy, that could create root-and-branch reforms to the way that Brussels impacts on the industry.…

Keith Nuthall
TOUGHER control of airline slots at EU airports have been proposed by the European Commission, in a bid to reduce delays. Its proposals include sanctions against abusive practices and incentives for airlines to use slot portfolios efficiently through exchanges and re-timing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TARGET of ensuring that 22 per cent of electricity generated within the European Union comes from renewable sources by the year 2010, has been written into the proposed European Environment Action Programme, by both the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KATE REW
A NEW groundbreaking IT-banking joint-venture is now operating in the UK, with 1,700 staff of high street bank Abbey National plc being transferred to the organisation.

It decided earlier this year to outsource its banking processes by setting up a joint venture to handle the work, in partnership with Texas-based Electronic Data Systems.…