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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a pre-requisite of successful policy making that public authorities need to have an accurate picture of the status quo, and also an effective way of measuring the results of reforms. Maybe nowhere is this truer than with the complex subject of sustainable agriculture and rural development.…

Keith Nuthall
ASK the man propping up the bar in a smoky pub who is Britain’s top expert on secret codes, and he would probably say James Bond. Which is probably why many companies are hiring experts from a government agency linked to its intelligence unit GCHQ for advice on computer cryptography and other IT security issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union countries are still achieving economic growth at the cost of exhausting the world’s natural energy and mineral resources, a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed.

Based on data for years up to 1997, the agency concludes that: “EU countries have made little progress towards preventing economic growth from translating into higher natural resources use.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PEOPLE who drink up to four alcoholic drinks-a-day are nearly half as likely to suffer from heart failure than non-drinkers according to a recent study.

The study, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researched the links between drinking and heart disease also concluded that people who drink one or more beverages containing alcohol per day are 62 per cent more likely to survive a heart attack than teetotallers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IMPORTANCE of European Union employment within the UK and other EU Member States is widely accepted and its authority is only going to grow over the next 10 years. This is because of the planned accession of eastern European countries to the European Union, meaning that EU employment directives will shape the law of their lands and that their national courts will become subject to the rulings and case law of the European Court of Justice, a key guardian of EU legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHELL chairman Sir Mark Moody Stuart has launched an environmental group, which aims to forge a common front among multi-national businesses initiative at next year’s second Earth Summit, at Johannesburg, South Africa. “Business Action for Sustainable Development” is to hold its first strategy meeting in October and is expected to be a vehicle allowing industrial giants to influence debates at the UN environment conference, also known as Rio II.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT on the world’s environmental concerns by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), has claimed that “tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates,” saying that “non-OECD regions, (developing countries), will lose another 10 per cent of their forests by 2020.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPULSORY minimum standards, for the treatment of asylum seekers within the European Union, have been proposed by the European Commission.

Using its new powers to table European legislation on justice and home affairs, the Commission has proposed that Member States provide a “minimum level of support with special help for the vulnerable,” such as unaccompanied children, torture victims and pregnant women.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUPPLY and quality of water services and their environmental management have been near the top of the research agendas of institutions of the European Union this year, with the European Commission’s directorate generals (DG) for research and the environment being particularly active.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE ADVISORY Committee on Paper and Wood Products of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has met to discuss issues related to climate change and the paper and wood products industry, and review recent progress made in forestry and the environmental certification of forest products.…