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BY ROBERT STOKES, IN EDINBURGH; LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON; AND PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT

AS the price of oil continues to rise and the demand for the valuable commodity increases worldwide, oil and gas companies are making major profits – yet this industry remains one where safety issues and hard physical work can cause injury.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH liquid fuels expected to remain the main energy source for transport for the foreseeable future, despite the continuing bad press about their carbon footprint, biofuels – especially second generation fuels based on waste – are still recognised as a useful means of lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

HEALTH is not really a priority for most confectionery consumers, but it is covered by ingredient labelling designed to promote well-being anyway – and the industry has to take note. The European Union (EU) is a case in point: it has been updating legislation on food labelling to promote consumer awareness about not-so-healthy ingredients in food products.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

While Ontario’s tobacco growing industry has faced hard times in recent years – with production reaching an all-time low back in 2008 – the sector is now gaining back some of its lost momentum. Tobacco leaf production has stabilised since the removal of the tobacco quota system back in 2009, and the industry is now seeing rising production numbers and renewed interests from the export market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) has released guidelines on the processing of renewals in its market authorisation procedure.

*It has released new advice on the structuring of information flows for applications for market authorisations and other agency regulatory requirements –

*The agency has published a paper on the pharmaceutical development of intravenous medicinal products containing active substances solubilised in micellar systems –

*It has unveiled an advisory paper for laboratories that analyse or evaluate clinical trial samples –

*And EMA has also released a paper dismissing calls to change existing EU guidelines on medicines for treating Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

ENDS…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s plans to lavish Euro EUR9.1 billion on developing energy transmission networks that link the energy systems of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states go to the heart of the EU’s raison d’être: that Europe’s compact countries can achieve more in concert than in competition.…

BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA

A TERRORIST attack on March 3 targeted the local headquarters of Algeria’s national rural police force ‘El Dark El Watani’ (in the southern Algerian border town of Tamanrasset with a booby-trapped car, leaving 23 people wounded.…

BY MARK ROWE

THERE is a scenario that environmentalists, climate change experts and the renewable oils industry have quietly dreaded for some time: what if – as you painstakingly push for a shift away from fossil fuels – another source of fossil fuels, a new kid on the carbon block, fronts up?…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IT is easy to think of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a more or less total rip-off when you read that a majority of the 27 member countries were asked to pay back some Euro EUR578 million of farm subsidies provided by the European Commission in 2010 (the last year for which figures are available) because of irregularities in spending, including lack of adequate control.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW tough rules for the recycling of ships carrying a European Union (EU) flag have been proposed by the European Commission. Under a new proposed regulation, the owners of EU flagged ships will have to draft an inventory of hazardous materials on board (such as chemicals, asbestos and oil sludge), and apply for an inventory certificate.…