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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEKS are the European Union’s highest spenders on footwear and clothing, taking into account the proportion of annual household income spent on these items, according to figures released by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical agency. Greek consumers devoted 11 per cent of their spending on shoes and clothes in 2001 and 2000 – the latest available comparative statistics covering the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH are the European Union’s keenest purchasers of alcohol and tobacco, considering annual household spending, according to European Union statistical agency Eurostat. Ireland’s consumers devoted six per cent of their spending on alcohol and tobacco in 2001 and 2000 – the latest available comparative statistics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health is necessarily a broad science, after all, the pollution, pathogens and accident risks that surround us are many and varied. So it makes sense, when trying to improve the environmental health of a particular urban area, to take a holistic approach, making improvements to services and cleanliness, as well as the built environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLANNED ban on heavy goods vehicles carrying non-ferrous and ferrous minerals on a key Alpine motorway linking Germany with Italy has sparked urgent legal action from the European Commission. It is taking Austria to the European Court of Justice, because of an order by the governor of the Austrian Tyrol to block the transport by lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes of certain heavy goods – among them metal ores – along the A12 Inntal motorway between Kundl and Ampass.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRIA is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its failure to properly implement the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive and Ireland is being threatened with such legal action for the same reason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Austria, Belgium, Greece and Italy to the European Court of Justice over their alleged failure to implement a 1999 directive on minimum welfare standards for laying hens.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Austria and Finland to the European Court of Justice for failing to adopt an older (and looser) directive on GM food. This includes rules on post-marketing monitoring, public information, plus labelling and traceability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its failure to properly implement the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive. Brussels says there is no guarantee Irish industries and farms will follow the legislation’s environmental rules.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEWLY re-named international Aquatic Animal Heath Standards Commission (formerly the Fish Diseases Commission) has warned of an outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis amongst farmed trout in Austria. So far 3,500 fish have died or been culled at a farm in Salzburg province, with the commission saying 8,400 fish are vulnerable to exposure, it said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRIAN government is being taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission because of its failure to impose sufficient environmental controls on intensive pig and poultry production in Austria. The Commission alleges that in this way, the country is breaking the EU’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive.…