Search Results for: Environmental health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STREAMLINING, multi-tasking and flexible posting of employees may be important weapons in the arsenal of a personnel team looking at getting the most efficiency out of their company, but managers had better make sure that their policies are legal, not only under national laws, but European law too.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES by European health Commissioner David Byrne to lift the EU’s five year de-facto moratorium on GM food have been blocked by Germany, France, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria. He said new authorisations should begin, because the EU Council of Ministers has approved labelling and traceability rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government is to operate a special aid fund that is designed to promote projects that reduce transport emissions and hence help the country meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments. The Environment and Energy Management Agency will grant aid totalling more than Euro 20 million annually until the end of 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products has released a detailed paper proposing that guidelines are drawn up for the development and application of medicines designed for use by children. It has suggested that a Paediatric Pharmacovigilance Guideline is written by the European Union’s (EU) CPMP Pharmacovigilance Working Party, “to underpin” other strategies currently being considered by EU regulators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the introduction of common food and feed health controls for all EU Member States. The regime includes management principles (documented control procedures and internal audits) and stricter rules on the accreditation of laboratories.…

BY PHILIP FINE

CALIFORNIA’S tough emissions rules seem to be translating into an increase in the number of environmentally friendly cars and trucks on the US market, according to this year’s "Green Book", published by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations member countries have agreed to strengthen the Aarhus convention on releasing environmental information, increasing the duty of oil refineries to declare information about 86 pollutants, (including greenhouse gases, acid rain pollutants, heavy metals and carcinogens), in a public pollutant release and transfer registers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WIDE range of industries will have to declare information about their pollution emissions under a new protocol to the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SCOTLAND’S Dundee City Council is to receive Pounds 4.5 million over the next

18 months in a novel European Union-funded project to install energy efficient boilers in 2,500 council homes. The deal is part of a nation-wide scheme financed by the

European Investment Bank and Co-operative Bank.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has attacked the lifting of a ban on Vietnamese poultry and shrimp exports into the European Union (EU) because of concerns about the use of controlled antibiotics. MEP’s accused the European Commission of acting in haste, without adequately checking whether controlled nitrofurans were still being widely used by Vietnamese shrimp and poultry producers.…