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BY ERIC LYMAN, in Rome

THE ITALIAN tobacco industry is currently in a holding pattern, mid-way between two milestones: the 2005 ban on indoor smoking that had a dramatic impact sales that the industry has yet to recover from, and a change in European Union (EU) subsidy rules scheduled for 2010 that could have a far greater effect on total production from Europe’s largest tobacco producer.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

FOLLOWING the introduction on July 1 of public place smoking bans in England 240 million people worldwide were covered by public smoking restrictions, according to the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). (NOTE – THIS IS A FRENCH ACRONYM)

The movement towards such restrictions is becoming ubiquitous in the European Union (EU), with Estonia, Finland, Scotland and Ireland already have full public-place bans, while Italy, Sweden and Malta have partial bans, allowing smoking only in closed-off, separately-ventilated areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee wants European Union (EU) rules to insist that biofuel production is environmentally sustainable. The call was made in amendments tabled to proposed reforms from the European Commission to the EU’s fuel quality directive, which insists on certain standards for petrol and diesel.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHICHEVER way you look, the oil and gas sector is investing in biofuels. The larger energy companies – driven by an eye for a new and potentially lucrative market as well as shareholder concern and governmental and international political pressure – are investigating both first and second generation biofuels.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

PUBLIC place smoking bans are spreading like wildlife these days, with one country after another drawing up rules preventing tobacco use where it could expose non-smokers to second-hand smoke.

In the European Union (EU), this year, public place smoking bans have been introduced in England, Estonia and Finland, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) scientists are investigating developing genetically modified feed vegetables engineered to produce healthy long-chain fatty acids, which could nourish broiler chickens and beef cattle. The idea has come in the EU’s Lipgene project, which aims to increase the amount of these acids in EU human diets.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

RESEARCHERS from the University of Leeds, England, have developed a way to turn vegetable sludge into hydrogen-rich gas. The process mixes glycerol with steam at controlled temperatures, separating the waste product into hydrogen, water and carbon dioxide with no residues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a public sector-dominated investment package of GBPounds 44 million to help develop Newquay airport, in Cornwall, southwest England. Pounds 19.5 million will come from European Union funds, with the remainder being covered by UK government funding agencies and borrowing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced England’s Staffordshire cheese, Spanish cauliflower Coliflor de Calahorra; German grated horseradish Bayerischer Meerrettich and Bayerischer Kren; and German table carp Holsteiner Karpfen have been granted geographical indication protection within the European Union (EU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LEVEL of incineration and recycling of municipal waste within Britain is as low as former communist countries in eastern Europe, a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report has concluded. In an assessment the 27 European Union (EU) member states, the EEA bracketed Britain with Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.…