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EUROPE CATCHING UP WITH USA ON INNOVATION SAYS REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is catching up with the United States in innovation, a European Commission-financed statistical report has claimed, although the US still has many significant advantages. This year’s European Innovation Scoreboard (2006) concludes: “The innovation gap between the EU [minus new members Bulgaria and Romania] and Japan, and in particular with the US is decreasing.”…
EASTERN EUROPE MAKES INCREASING PROGRESS ON NUCLEAR SAFETY - FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
EASTERN Europe, thanks mainly to the preponderance of Soviet-era facilities and Soviet-era standards of maintenance, has long been seen as a potential weak link for the nuclear power industry in safety terms. A vast group of international experts devotes time and resources to maintaining the industry’s record and the nuclear power industry has various arrangements for cooperation among utilities and internationally, among government and United Nations nuclear agencies.…
IRISH WRITERS WELCOME ECJ ROYALTIES RULING
BY DEIRDRE MASON
WRITERS IN the Republic of Ireland are celebrating a victory at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that will ensure that Irish libraries pay them when their books are borrowed.
Ireland, the ECJ ruled on January 11, went too far from the spirit of the 1992 European directive on lending rights when, in its Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000, it exempted all public libraries from the need to pay public lending rights.…
CZECH TROUT DISEASE REPORTED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus has led to 27.8 tons of farmed trout being slaughtered in the Czech Republic, the Aquatic Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE – animal health organisation) has reported.…
INTERNATIONAL BIODIESEL INDUSTRY REPORT
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
IN the space of some five years, biofuels have grown from almost total insignificance in the European Union (EU) to becoming the only practical alternative to petrol as a fuel for motor vehicles and much else – albeit still at a very low level.…
UNECE PUSHES TRANSBOUNDARY WATER QUALITY CONVENTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is pushing signatories to its new Protocol on Water and Health to its Convention on Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes to agree detailed targets on improving European water quality.…
CONTACTS AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
BY DEIRDRE MASON
*Nurses who wish to join the US forces wherever these are based MUST be a US citizen. Nurses working in the UK who hold US citizenship and who are interested in joining the US Army Nurse Corps can find details of career path and qualifications at: http://armynursecorps.amedd.army.mil…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION WILL MONITOR POLISH AND CZECH STEEL PROGRESS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEL sectors of Poland and the Czech Republic will be under a microscope wielded by the European Commission in 2007, when Brussels decides whether state aid pumped into these industries was well spent or should be paid back.…
EU MINISTERS ALLOW AUSTRIA TO PRESERVE NATIONAL GM BANS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL experts are carefully studying the decision on Monday (18-12) of the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers that Austria should continue its national bans on two generically modified maize varieties. The European Commission, which wanted the bans abolished, is considering its options, because the maize – Zea Mays L.…
EBRD PLANS TO WEAN ARMENIA OFF NUCLEAR POWER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has announced plans to wean Armenia off nuclear energy and onto renewables, rather than funding replacements for its ageing Soviet-era reactors. One unit at the former Soviet republic’s Metsamor plant currently supplies 40% of the country’s energy; a twin unit has been mothballed since a 1988 earthquake shook the power station, 75 km south of the epicentre.…