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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has started detailed work on proposals for a Seventh Framework Programme of research grants, which could command twice as much money as the existing (sixth) programme to Euro 40 billion and would include space and technology budgets for the first time.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHILDREN who consume food additives such as colourings and preservatives are more likely to have behavioural problems according to British research. The study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood was conducted on 277 three-year-olds over four weeks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNILEVER has told an international conference on climate-change friendly refridgeration that it will from next year buy only ice-cream cabinets free of the environmentally damaging HFC coolant, using Hydrocarbon (HC) as its preferred alternative. Its businesses operate two million freezers worldwide.…

BY MARK ROWE
ALCOHOL products are one of the major strengths that the new members of the recently enlarged European Union (EU) bring to its economic table. Of the 10 newcomers, six are wine-producing countries: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is understandable to see how the cosmetics industries in the European Union’s (EU) newest members might view the recent expansion of the EU club with mixed feelings. On the one hand, new markets have opened up: if their products are good enough to sell at home, they can now sell them from the Baltic to the Atlantic.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commissioner for transport and energy, Loyola de Palacio, has been given a special “Climate Killer Award” by a coalition of environmental NGOs including Friends of the Earth and the Climate Action Network. Mrs de Palacio was given the award, said the group, “in recognition of her repeated efforts to destabilise EU support for the Kyoto Protocol and related policies”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIGH price of utility services is restricting the number of European Union (EU) customers that switch between service providers, even when such choice is available, according to a new European Commission report on ‘fixed networks’ (also including gas, electricity and transport).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Environment Facility has approved US$233.4 million in grants for 25 projects fostering biodiversity, preventing climate change, managing international water supplies and fighting land degradation, organic pollution and ozone depletion. http://www.thegef.org/Outreach/Media/Press_Releases/Umbrella_news_release__5-11-04_ENG.pdf…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed rounding up the European Union (EU) alcohol excise duty rates from levels agreed for 1993’s establishment of the European single market, taking account of the 24 per cent inflation to 2003. This, said a formal Commission report, would “ensure that the minimum rates of excise duty do not become meaningless over time.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPANY and private car drivers moving from one European Union (EU) Member State to another should not be required to pay fresh registration taxes when they change their country of residence, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended.…