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BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
A WORLDWIDE standard for automotive safety glazing may only be a few months away, now that suppliers have agreed on the content and wording.

The new draft standard was finalized at a January conference in Brussels under the umbrella of CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), with representatives from the US, Japan, Canada, Belgium, France and Germany taking part.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project called VASOPLUS is developing a new drug that can promote the formation of blood vessels in damaged hearts, without the usual side effects generated by such medicines. The initiative, which includes scientists from Belgium, Germany, Italy and South Africa, has been focusing on a signaling protein called ‘placental growth factor’ (PlGF), which controls blood formation within essential organs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is pushing signatories to its new Protocol on Water and Health to its Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes to agree detailed targets on improving European water quality.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BALTIC States are the European Union’s (EU) boom-region for research spending increases, according to the latest R&D figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which show Britain’s performance as relatively static. Annual average growth rates in real terms research spending from 2001 to 2005 ranged from +18% in Latvia, +17% in Estonia, and +11% in Lithuania, (+15% in Cyprus).…

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 CHRIS JONES, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

WORKERS laid off following Volkswagen’s closure of the Forest manufacturing plant in Belgium may be the first to benefit from a new Euro 500 million fund created to help European Union (EU) companies hit by problems caused through globalisation.…

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 Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compensation claimants for asbestos-contamination associated illness should receive awards calculated by taking their likely earning power in their home European Union (EU) country into account, even if they were working in another EU state when making the claim.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compensation claimants for asbestos-contamination associated illness should receive awards calculated by taking their likely earning power in their home European Union (EU) country into account, even if they were working in another EU state when making the claim.…