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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced comprehensive plans to simplify or abolish 1,400 European Union (EU) rules on a wide range of topics – from health and safety, to company law. Part of a major overhaul of EU legislation to make European laws more user-friendly, EU industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen said: “This will have a positive effect on the competitiveness of our economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to simplify European Union (EU) rules on a range of nuclear 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:

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

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided on an unchanged figure of Euro 450 million for conversion and restructuring in the European Union’s wine sector in 2005/6 in spite of a high level of compulsory distillation this year so far.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has acted to simplify the approval of ‘intelligent’ adaptive front-lighting systems (AFS) that boost illumination for drivers, while cutting the risk of glare for fellow motorists. It is proposing that manufacturers should bypass existing European Union (EU) complicated approval procedures for new technologies, by writing a draft United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) technical regulation for this kit into EU type-approval rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to rewrite European Union (EU) laws affecting the fishing meat industry to simplify existing EU legislation across the board, easing the sector’s understanding of often complex and baffling regulations.

Brussels has embarked on a three-year programme to scrap obsolete laws, rewrite over-complicated texts and combine overlapping directives and regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced comprehensive plans to simplify or abolish 1,400 European Union (EU) rules on a wide range of topics – from company law to the customs code. Part of a major overhaul of EU legislation to make European laws more user-friendly, EU industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen said: “This will have a positive effect on the competitiveness of our economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT from the Kyoto Protocol Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by power plants before it enters the atmosphere could be crucial in minimising climate change. The Geneva-based panel has estimated that capture and storage technologies could lower climate change mitigation costs over the next 100 years by 30%.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added a range of meat products to the scope of a directive that would limit the use of certain additives in food. In amendments at first reading, that will require support from European Union (EU) ministers to become law, MEPs said a number of traditionally cured meat products from Spain, Germany and eastern European countries should be subject to sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate residue limits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agricultural liberalisation talks revealed plans this week to run the Lausanne marathon, in a city neighbouring the WTO’s Geneva. And whilst there are many of us who think sport running is for heroes or lunatics (or both), we can at least admire their stamina.…