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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUNDBREAKING cooperation deal on protecting traditionally-made food products in overseas markets rolled into action yesterday (Tues 10-7), with China and European Union (EU) officials preparing legal protection for 10 lines each. The first EU agreement of its kind, the European Commission formally applied to register 10 EU food products within China’s geographical indications system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNET gambling boss has predicted England’s new nationwide smoking ban could pump an additional GBPounds 5 million-a-year into his industry’s coffers, as smoking punters abandon casinos and bingo halls banning cigarettes and cigars. Malcolm Graham, CEO poker website PKR.com,…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suspended funds to five regional authorities in England – north-east England, north-west England, Yorkshire and Humberside, London and West Midlands – over “a lack of proper controls over paying agencies.” No indication of the sums involved was given but in 2005 the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) pumped Euro 2 billion into the UK, so the loss of money will be substantial.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on whether water companies are responsible under European Union (EU) law for cleaning up escaped sewage could force the UK government to consider national reforms. Judges ruled the clean-up of escaped solid waste was not covered by the 1991 EU urban waste water directive, and the 1975 waste framework directive would not apply either if there were detailed national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on whether water companies are responsible under European Union (EU) law for cleaning up escaped sewage could force the UK government to consider national reforms on the issue. Judges ruled that the clean up of escaped solid waste was not covered by the 1991 EU urban waste water directive, and that the broader 1975 waste framework directive would not apply either if there were more detailed national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is being threatened with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over claims it has failed to ensure the correct implementation of the European Union’s (EU) landfill directive throughout the United Kingdom.

The directive imposes environmental and health standards on the operation and closure of landfills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN academics think of European Union (EU) funding for their projects or institutions, they often consider the European Commission, with its high profile in education and research spending through its framework programmes. But there is another EU institution developing an increasingly important role as a financial fountainhead for European higher education: the European Investment Bank (EIB).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN’S Department for Communities and Local Government has been warned by the European Commission that it must sort out shortcomings in its auditing of European Union regional development spending in England or risk aid payments worth millions of Euros being suspended.…

BY MARK ROWE, in Bristol, England

A NEW generation of biofuels is set to radically overhaul the non-fossil fuel market, providing opportunities and challenges for the automotive manufacturing industry, with many innovations emerging from Europe. Until recently, the question of biofuels has been limited, mainly, to biodiesel and bioethanol made from crops such as cereals, soybean and palm oil.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SERIES of detailed and striking data-based images has been released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) starkly portraying western Europe’s density of development, and hence its exposure to environmental health problems. These make up the ‘Corine Land Cover 2000’ database, which offers information on land cover and land cover changes over the past decade in 32 European countries, using photo-interpretation of satellite images.…