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BY ALAN OSBORN
POLYMERS used as raw materials in the manufacture of detergents, and other products used as intermediate chemicals in the production of cosmetics are to be spared strict registration requirements under the European Commission’s plans for chemical industry regulation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is preparing to strengthen the proposed European Union (EU) directive on environmental liability, which is designed to ensure that polluters pay for damage that they cause through intent or negligence.

MEP’s on the parliament’s legal affairs and internal market committee are supporting amendments that would extend the scope of this legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVEN the most ill-informed layman knows that modern farming is often a technically advanced and scientific business, but the extent to which new technologies are being used to maximise production is not so-widely known, even within the industry itself.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Parliament probe into allegations that European Union budgetary aid for the Palestinian Authority (PA) was misused – maybe being funnelled into the hands of terrorist groups – has held its first meeting in Strasbourg.

The working group will draw up a report by the end of this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESTRICTIONS on the marketing and use of nonylphenol and nonylphenolethoxylates have been formally approved by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers for industry. It accepted amendments previously passed to this directive by the European Parliament and so the legislation passed without having to receive a second reading by MEPs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
POLYMERS and other intermediate chemicals have come off lightly under the European Commission’s long-awaited proposals for new legislation to regulate chemicals in the European Union. In many cases such substances will be freed from the need to register and for others the requirements will be significantly eased.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) has announced the details of a campaign it will run this year on reducing the risk of handling dangerous substances at work. The European Union (EU) agency is to provide information about risks and solutions in all official EU languages, through posters, leaflets and a multilingual website at http://osha.eu.int/ew2003/,…

BY Alan Osborn
The European Food Safety Authority has begun active operations following appointments to its scientific committee and to the eight specialist panels. Mr Geoffrey Podger, executive director of EFSA and former head of Britain’s food safety agency, said EFSA had recruited the best available scientists working on the most important food safety issues “so that significant improvements can be made to the safety of food in the European Union – that process begins now.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) report published to mark this week’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work has claimed that every year around two million lives and US$1.25 trillion of global economic earnings are lost to work-related accidents and illnesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is granting 512 meat processing establishments in six eastern European countries additional time to bring their health standards in line with European Union law once their home states join the EU next May.

A memorandum released by the European Commission’s enlargement directorate general, says that 332 of these operations are in Poland, where the deadline for compliance has been extended to December 2007; 14 establishments in Lithuania have until January 2007.…