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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SAFETY certification of airports in the eastern Caribbean requires significant reform, an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) report has stressed. Drawing on Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) assessments, it raised concerns about airports in Trinidad & Tobago; Jamaica; Antigua & Barbuda; Grenada; St Kitts & Nevis; St.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

INHALING diesel exhaust impairs the brain’s processing of information according to a study from Zuyd University, the Netherlands. Participants inhaled diesel exhaust similar to that breathed by roadside or garage workers during 30 minutes. Their minds displayed stress responses recorded on an electroencephalograph (EEG) whilst controls breathing clean air registered normal brain activity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s controversial proposals promoting biofuels within the European Union (EU) are already running into political difficulties over their environmental impact. The European Parliament’s environment committee has debated the idea and backed a report saying biofuels should generate half of the CO2 created by mineral fuels – when assessing their production, distribution and consumption – to count towards Brussels’ proposed 10% by 2020 fuel target.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to rule that the European Union (EU) is still illegally protecting banana exports from the Caribbean and Africa, but there is no prospect of this long running dispute being solved swiftly.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

ALTHOUGH final Christmas and New Year sales figures are not yet available, every indication from Dutch publishers and retailers is that the Netherlands enjoyed a plump festive season following 12 months in which sales of copies increased by 4.5% – representing in cash terms a 7.5% growth.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A new system of continuous ink-jet printing designed to help textile printers cope with the increasingly rapid turnover of clothes in shops has been developed by the French company Imaje jointly with the Dutch firm Osiris Digital Printing under the EU’s EUREKA initiative which provides support to businesses carrying out cross-border innovative projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been approving a series of operational programmes for many European Union (EU) member states’ fishing (and aquaculture) sectors, outlining how it will target money from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).

One of the largest recipients of this Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) subsidy scheme is France, which is to receive Euro 216 million from 2007-13, less than it received under the 2000-2006 Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG), which supplied Euro 278 million.…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Paris

FUEL companies are getting increasingly involved in support for eco-driving campaigns, but still have the own self-interest at heart, according to Peter Wilbers of Senter Novem, the Dutch energy agency.

Wilbers was speaking at an international forum organised by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris on November 22-23, which brought to together policy-makers, fuel companies, car manufacturers and road users to discuss the role of eco-driving on fuel economy and CO2 emissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has indicated that British fleet drivers who are victims of accidents in other European Union (EU) member states, can sue the insurer of responsible party in the UK. The ECJ precedent-making ruling came in a case where a German driver was injured in the Netherlands.…