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BY MARK ROWE
EASTERN Europe, thanks mainly to the preponderance of Soviet-era facilities and Soviet-era standards of maintenance, has long been seen as a potential weak link for the nuclear power industry in safety terms. A vast group of international experts devotes time and resources to maintaining the industry’s record and the nuclear power industry has various arrangements for cooperation among utilities and internationally, among government and United Nations nuclear agencies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL policing organisations are toughening their fight against Euro banknote counterfeiting, as seizures fall within the European Union (EU), but worries persist about counterfeiting outside the EU. The first International Conference on the Protection of the Euro against Counterfeiting takes place in The Hague, the Netherlands, May 15-16.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is catching up with the United States in innovation, a European Commission-financed statistical report has claimed, although the US still has many significant advantages. This year’s European Innovation Scoreboard (2006) concludes: “The innovation gap between the EU [minus new members Bulgaria and Romania] and Japan, and in particular with the US is decreasing.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is pumping Euro 11 million into a war-damaged paper factory in in Maglaj, Bosnia & Herzegovina, to modernise its plant and increase production, notably of cardboard and paper for making large sacks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union will not appeal against the World Trade Organisation disputes hearing ruling that backed an American complaint that Brussels has illegally blocked imports of genetically modified food during its moratorium on market approvals to 2003, and some continuing national bans by member states: in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LEGAL experts are carefully studying the decision on Monday (18-12) of the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers that Austria should continue its national bans on two generically modified maize varieties. The European Commission, which wanted the bans abolished, is considering its options, because the maize – Zea Mays L.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EXEMPTION from European Union (EU) power liberalisation rules to be enjoyed by Estonia until 2013 has been cut back to 2008 by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which ruled the special measure had been approved illegally.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a proposed European Union (EU) regulation which would allow police and other law enforcement officials within the EU’s Schengen open border area to inspect registration documentation held in all countries of this zone.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving towards supporting environment-friendly road transport, rather than dedicating resources to promoting public transport, a European Parliament debate organised by the Automobile and Society Forum, has heard. The European Commission is currently reviewing its 2001 transport white paper and its working papers have noted "disappointment" over the results of the EU’s pro-public transport policies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LONG-STANDING European Union (EU) member states with higher EU-mandated levels of excise duty on cigarettes than neighbouring new member states temporarily exempted from such minimum rates, may restrict personal tobacco imports from such countries. This ruling has come from the European Court of Justice in a case involving Austria and Slovenia.…