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BY MARK ROWE

WHILE personal care product sales for the 15 countries that made up the European Union (EU) before 2003, plus Switzerland and Norway, increased by just 1% in 2005/2006 on the previous year – eastern Europe is a more enticing prospect for the industry, and has been singled out by major organisations and companies as a shining light for sales, investment and production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation (IMO) is coordinating a global effort to contain the Mediterranean’s largest oil spill, caused by Israeli bombing of oil storage at the Jiyyeh power plant, south of Beirut. At least 10,000 tonnes of oil have escaped into the sea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EXPERT report from the world’s top anti-money laundering body has shown how organised criminals are exploiting the global metal trade to conceal the origin of their ill-gotten gains. The annual ‘typologies’ report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) looks at how world-trading systems are abused by money launderers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD’S international money laundering watchdog is warning that the global food trade can be criminals moving their illicit funds to legitimate bank-accounts. A case study released by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has revealed how an unnamed food product trading company, in an offshore financial centre, received revenue from so-called ‘blood diamonds’, mined by forced labour.…

BY MARK ROWE, in Munich

EUROPEAN governments have little choice but to embrace nuclear energy as part of their future power strategies, according to the head of the European Commission’s research and policy body. Roland Schenkel, Director General of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which operates independently from private or national interests, said nuclear energy would play a hugely significant role in meeting Europe’s energy needs in coming decades, and that the need for European countries to address the issue of energy security was immediate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has tabled giving the printing industry time to deal with a proposed European Union (EU) ban on perfluorooctane sulfonates (PFOS) – environmentally damaging chemicals used in photography.

The committee has proposed this ban is delayed for photoresists or anti-reflective coatings for photolithography processes until eight years after the directive comes into force, provided they are used in controlled closed systems because of lack of technical alternatives.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

AFTER years of tests and international negotiations, Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation network at last has announced the technical details of its signal, crucial information for auto and component suppliers wanting to develop components to exploit the system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

URBANISATION in developing countries will inflate demand for meat and processed foods generally from this year to 2015, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted. In a new ‘Agricultural Outlook’ written with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the OECD says "growing market opportunities in certain developing countries" (notably Brazil, China and India) will cause a "shift in production and export of farm commodities away from [developed] OECD countries and more towards other developing economies".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld or strengthened two fines originally imposed by the European Commission on seven graphite electrode producers from Germany, Japan and the USA for operating a global cartel. These penalties had been appealed, and eased somewhat by the ECJ’s junior Court of First Instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to expand its existing partnership agreement with Greenland beyond fish, to include the exploitation of the Danish autonomous territory’s wealthy mineral reserves. Greenland has proven deposits of gold, diamonds, rubies, molybdenum, nickel and other resources and furthermore, its deep ice cap is thinning through global warming, posing opportunities and dangers for prospectors.…