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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to simplify the European Union’s cosmetics industry rulebook, rolling 45 directives into one piece of legislation, under a comprehensive legal rationalisation programme. It has announced that Directive 76/768/EEC on cosmetic products and seven subsequent amendments – as well as 37 adaptations to technical progress and two directives postponing the prohibition of animal tests – will be codified and written into one new directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN OVERHAUL of the official statistics produced of catch landings across the European Union (EU) has been proposed by the European Commission, which would create national figures, instead of pan-EU data as at present. Brussels says, with member states already collecting the information, it would be no large job to divide data country-by-country, while at the moment, information is collated for all EU vessels, those of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA), and other boats.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE CANADIAN government has followed in the footsteps of the European Union (EU) by banning the use of lead acetate in progressive hair dyes namely, Grecian Formula 16 (Canadian sister of the fabled Grecian 2000 Cream in the UK).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is to simplify the European Union’s cosmetics industry rulebook, rolling 45 directives into one piece of legislation, under a comprehensive legal rationalisation programme. It has announced that Directive 76/768/EEC on cosmetic products and seven subsequent amendments – as well as 37 adaptations to technical progress and two directives postponing the prohibition of animal tests – will be codified and written into one new directive.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to simplify European Union (EU) rules on a range of energy topics, part of a major overhaul of EU legislation that has been unveiled by the current Commission. In a bid to make European laws more user-friendly, Brussels has said it will:

*Rewrite and extend the field of a 1992 directive on labelling and product information regarding the energy consumption by household appliances;

*Simplify and reduce red tape associated with the EU’s 2001 energy efficiency labelling programme for office equipment;

*Repeal and rewrite seven regulations and directives on ensuring adequate oil and gas stocks, especially in an energy crisis;

*Recast 10 directives, decisions and recommendations on nuclear safety into one directive on “the protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation”; and

*Combine four regulations on maximum levels of radioactivity in food and animal feed following a nuclear accident.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN companies are dynamic enough to ensure that four out of five job losses come from restructuring, a report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. It says that more than 80% of around one million announced job losses over the past 18 months in Europe were due to the need to adapt to technological change, from changes in consumer demand and from reforms to work organisation.…

BY MARK ROWE
OVERSHADOWING the Japanese paint industry in recent years has been the overall shape of the country’s economy. The stagnation of the economy lasted for much of the 1990s but it showed signs of recovery in the first half of fiscal 2004-2005, driven by solid exports and strong corporate capital investment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLISH government has been alarmed by a call from Russia’s Gazprom to renegotiate its long-term natural gas supply contract, which is supposed to expire in 2022. Poland’s freshly-appointed prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said he was baffled by the move: “It’s hard to understand this step.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Canada, has agreed the final rulebook for the Kyoto Protocol, eight years after the treaty was agreed. Final differences have been ironed regarding accounting for emissions, CO2 allowances based on forests, soils and other natural resources and on data systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER years of doing nothing, and then years of erecting complex bureaucratic controls, the European Union (EU) is at last starting to get its act together on controlling fraud. Keith Nuthall reports.

IN a filthy flat, not properly cleaned for years, moving the odd cupboard and shining a torch on the floor is sure to highlight a few cockroaches, scuttling for safety towards some Godforsaken corner.…