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BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD manufacturers changing the particle size of an additive will have to secure a fresh market authorisation for European Union (EU) sales under a newly approved assessment system. This has been written into four regulations on additives, flavourings and enzymes, which have been approved by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN AGREEMENT has been struck over how to incorporate aviation emissions within the European Union’s (EU) carbon trading scheme. Representatives of the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers have agreed a compromise that should be formally approved.…

By Keith Nuthall

WE all know about Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. These social utility websites allow us all to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, exchange messages, post pictures and play silly games – such as throwing a digital sheep at someone or giving them a pixellated hellraiser cocktail.…

By Alan Osborn

The European Union (EU) will have to achieve much greater progress in bridging the gap between research and industry if it is to make a success of its Lisbon Strategy for making the EU the world’s most competitive economy by 2010, a conference on Innovating for Competitiveness in ICT (information and communication technologies) was told in Brussels last week (May 28).…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan; JUHEL BROWNE, in Port of Spain, Trinidad; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE RISING price in oil has hit the prosperity of many companies, communities and countries, but it is the world’s poorest people, living in what the United Nations calls least developed countries that are suffering the most.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

HOW quickly events are moving in the energy sector at present, and how difficult this makes long-term planning by the power generation industry. One of the key documents for forecasters in Europe is the paper prepared by the National Technical University of Athens for the European Commission’s directorate-general for energy and transport on "Trends to 2030."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CREATION of a powerful European Union (EU) energy infrastructure agency – with authority over both electricity and gas networks – has been proposed by the European Parliament’s industry committee.

Its amendments, if successful, would change European Commission proposals to create two separate agencies: the European Network of Transmission System Operators for electricity (ENTSOE) and gas (ENTSOG).…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; and RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AS developed world clothing brands increasingly outsource production to emerging market countries, the demand for designing talent close to these growing manufacturing centres is growing. But how reliable is the source of creativity and are there sufficient numbers of designers in China, India and elsewhere for the big brands to start thinking about shifting creative aspects of their operations overseas as well as basic production?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IN a symbolically significant move indicating a major shift in the global food trade, the European Union (EU) has now permanently abolished set aside, the Common Agricultural System that ordered farmers to leave 10% of their land fallow and paid them for doing it.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

IT could be an animal rights campaigner’s worst nightmare: not only is the testing of cosmetics China allowed, it is in fact compulsory for all products. And this is going to cause problems to the international cosmetics sector.…