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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that sulphur should be banned from petrol in the EU by 2011, and has proposed that sulphur-free petrol and diesel should be made available in every Member States from January 1, 2005.

Brussels thinks sulphur elimination is important, because the chemical damages catalytic converters and makes them less efficient.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities have been asked to apply for grants from a Euro 2.5 million budget run by the European Commission’s DG environment. Money is available for projects that focus on climate change, sustainable development, forestry, publicising EU environmental policies and animal experiments, among other areas.…

BY KATE REW
NEW York City Mayor, Rudolph Guiliani has called for the privatisation of JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in a speech outlining his vision of their future.

Speaking at the New York-based Wings Club, Mayor Giuliani called for the consolidation of the body, which oversees the two airports into one agency, the Airport Improvement Corporation, in order to improve service and convenience, while accommodating increasing passenger traffic.…

BY SIMON WILCOX, in Singapore
IN a dim and distant era before electronics and semiconductors, Singapore was a tiny backwater in the Malay kingdom of Johor-Riau, its inhabitants depending on jungle produce, fishing, small-scale trading and a little piracy for their livelihood.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN heads of government will be asked to back a work programme to integrate environmental concerns at the heart of EU energy policy. The resolution, to be tabled at the next EU summit, in Göteborg, Sweden, on June 15-16, was approved by the latest meeting of the Council of Ministers for energy and industry.…

BY DEIDRE MASON
SAFEGLASS SAFETY SMASH-BOX GLAZING

PLUSES: Prevents people injuring themselves if they have to break the glass

MINUSES: Could attract vandals no longer afraid of cutting themselves

VERDICT: An innovative product with real benefits for public and emergency services alike

COSTS: Depends on quantity and application but can work out cheaper in cases where toughened glass is used, for instance on buses for window-breaking hammers

Contact: Avril McNeill, Marketing Manager

Safeglass (Europe) Ltd,

Whitworth Building,

Scottish Enterprise technology park,

East Kilbride,

G75 0QD,

Scotland

Tel: +440 (0)1355 272438

e-mail: avril@safeclass.co.uk…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
MANY Health and Safety leaflets are going over their small and medium-sized business targets’ heads because the reading age needed to understand them is too high for their owners and managers.

Delegates at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ (RoSPA) recent conference at Birmingham heard Sandra Caldwell, head of the Health and Safety Executive’s Health Directorate, bring this surprising fact out in the open.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UK government has been given permission by the European Commission to go-ahead with exempting certain environment-friendly services from its general climate change levy, ruling that because they promote environmental good-practice and public transport, the concessions should not be considered as illegal state aid.…

KEITH NUTHALL
ADVICE from the European Commission, that retailers with branches in the EU countries introducing notes and coins of the Euro next year should avoid holding their winter sales until the New Year deadline for the launch of the new cash has passed, has been attacked by the British Retail Consortium.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has released an anti-counterfeiting guide, describing the wide range of options that companies can take, when trying to protect products and packaging against counterfeiters, especially by using specialist inks and dyes.

These include overt and covert methods, about which the guide gives practical advice to companies as to which to employ in a particular situation.…