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EU PLOTS YOUTH ANTI-TOBACCO CAMPAIGN



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Youth Manifesto on Tobacco Control was to be handed over to European Union (EU) health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou at the European Parliament this week in Strasbourg. The policy document, drawn up by EU youth organisations, calls on EU institutions and EU member states to involve young people and their representatives when drawing up anti-smoking policies and programmes.…

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EU LAUNCHES RESEARCH INTO ORGANIC LIGHT PACKAGING



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is taking intelligent packaging a step further, developing organic light emitting device materials (OLEDs) that could flash messages, such as: “Don’t drink this milk, it is sour”. The three-year GBPounds 850,000 Modelling Electroactive Conjugated Materials at the Multiscale (MODECOM) project is coordinated by the University of Bath and will investigate the molecular properties e behind polymer-based mass produced organic light emitting devices, providing information to help develop commercially-viable designs.…

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EU LAUNCHES RESEARCH INTO ORGANIC LIGHT POLYMERS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTELLIGENT packaging is a buzz-concept in the plastics sector, deploying chemically sensitive polymers which can change colour when a food goes off, or is out of date, and other uses. But a European Union (EU) research project is taking a step further, developing organic light emitting device materials (OLEDs) that could actually flash and beam out messages: “Don’t drink this milk, it is sour!”…maybe.…

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EU LAUNCHES RESEARCH INTO ORGANIC LIGHT PACKAGING



BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTELLIGENT packaging is a buzz-concept in the food sector, using chemically sensitive materials which could change colour when a food goes off. But a European Union (EU) research project is taking a step further, developing organic light emitting device materials (OLEDs) that could actually flash and beam out messages: “Don’t drink this milk, you could throw up!”…maybe.…

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FRANCE TOBACCO INDUSTRY STRIVES TO MAINTAIN PROFITABILITY DESPITE UNPRECEDENTED SMOKING RESTRICTIONS



BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FRENCH tobacco market is astir and it’s quite possible that such iconic brands as Gitanes and Gauloise, part of the Franco-Spanish Altardis group with some 30% of the French cigarette market, will no longer be independently owned by the year-end.…

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EU LAUNCHES WATER POLLUTION NUTRIENT MAP



BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCENTRATIONS of manure and fertiliser nitrogen run-off into watercourses across Europe have been made starkly clear in a new European Union’s Joint Research Centre atlas on nutrient pollution. This shows the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark as being Europe’s hotspots for such contamination, although Wales and Northern Ireland perform poorly.…

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EU ROUND UP - EU SEEKS ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SUPPLIES AS RUSSIA SUMMIT APPROACHES



BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the key May 18 European Union (EU)-Russia summit in Samara, Russia, looming, the European Commission is continuing efforts to find suitable alternative energy partners to Moscow. Russia and the EU want to start tough negotiations on forging a new energy agreement, with both sides firming up their positions.…

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MALTA FACES EUROPE WIDE PRESSURE OVER SPRING HUNT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALTA’S highest profile bird conservation group has called for European bird watchers to visit the Mediterranean archipelago, to embarrass its hunters during the country’s controversial spring hunt. More than 100,000 birds are officially declared shot or trapped annually in Malta and under the European Union’s (EU) 1979 wild birds directive, spring hunts are usually illegal because they interfere with breeding, allowed only where unusual migration patterns restrict hunting opportunities.…

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BRUSSELS RELEASES NUTRIENT POLLUTION MAP



BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCENTRATIONS of manure and fertiliser nitrogen run-off into watercourses in Wales and other livestock-focused areas of Britain and Ireland have been made starkly clear in a new European Union’s Joint Research Centre atlas on nutrient pollution. This shows the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark as being Europe’s hotspots for such contamination, although Wales and Northern Ireland perform poorly.…

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EU FAKE CIGARETTE SEIZURES DATA ADD



BY KEITH NUTHALL
Italian ports had the most seizures of counterfeit cigarettes, said OLAF, which said customs teams found 27.7 million sticks in four containers. There were three containers found in Spain with 26.6 million sticks in total; 25.6 million sticks in five containers in Britain; 21.2 million in three containers in Greece; 15.4 million in two containers in Romania; 10 million in one Germany container; and 9.5 million in a Belgium container.…

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