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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BELGIAN government has committed its July-December presidency of the European Union to securing formal approval for the creation of a new research fund that will pump millions of Euro’s into coal industry research, replacing the work carried out via the budgets of the soon-to-be-defunct European Coal and Steel Community.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MULTILATERAL sea and river organisations are usually created to deal with existing problems that cross national borders, but a new body has been making progress on a shipping issue that has yet even to happen: the exploitation and transport of subterranean solid mineral deposits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW global initiative to spread knowledge and equipment regarding the Internet to developing countries already has the support of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in a bid to secure annual contributions of US$30-50 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked for electronics research teams – from both the private and public sector – to bid for money from a budget to promote studies and demonstration projects, regarding innovative computing-related technologies.

Using some of the last money still available from the outgoing Fifth Framework Programme of research, which will be wound up by the end of this year, the Commission has announced that it has earmarked Euro 450 million for grants, with a deadline for applications for the bulk of the projects of October 17.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into helping governments verify nuclear non-proliferation treaties have led the EU’s Joint Research Centre to develop new technology, which allows the creation of three-dimensional images of high clarity and accuracy. A spin-off company 3D Veritas, based in Sesto Calende, northern Italy, uses software which enables the speedy production of photo-realistic 3D models of the interior and exterior of buildings and other large objects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a series of legal proceedings against EU Member States, which it claims have broken oil-related directives.

It has decided to take Italy to the European Court of Justice over its special tax on engine lubrication oils, which Brussels claims contravenes EU excise duty laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR European Union research study has concluded that the ‘true’ price of using coal and oil to generate electricity is double that usually assumed by standard accounting systems, when the costs of cleaning up the resulting pollution and dealing with the resulting health problems are taken into account.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SURGE in research and development sparked by the 1995-8 slump in the semi-conductor industry will create an unprecedented boom in sales of chip-based products, the latest World Commodity Survey from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD, has claimed.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A JAPANESE company, Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd., and the Japanese Forest and Forest Products Research Institute, have jointly established a new technique to recover and reuse roots and branches of felled trees for the greening of newly developed residential regions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIALIST monitoring unit in the EU’s Joint Research Centre, has been using the latest satellite radar technology to track deliberate and accidental discharges of oil and other pollutants from shipping, encouraging the European Commission to take a stronger line in its maritime pollution policies.…