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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission announced this week (Monday October 29) that it will ban from June 30, 2003, the use of chemical product hexachloroethane, (HCE), in the manufacture or processing of all non-ferrous metals where it is used to reduce impurities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has developed plans to lend US$25 million to develop Atyrau Airport, in western Kazakhstan, near the Caspian Sea. It wants to lend the money to the Atyrau Airport Company, which is wholly owned by KazTransOil, the state oil transport company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REGULATIONS governing the proposed new Coal and Steel Research Fund, that is to replace the outgoing European Coal and Steel Community next year, should allow for its budget to be reviewed when the EU admits new members from eastern Europe, the European Parliament’s budget committee has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Intellectual Property Organisation, (WIPO), has released a plan for the fighting of abusive registration of Internet sites involving International Non-proprietary Names, (INN’s), the generic, unique and distinctive names of pharmaceutical substances, selected by the World Health Organisation, (WHO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has recommended the composition of a influenza vaccine for the 2002 southern hemisphere flu season. It has concluded that the medicine should include an A/Moscow/10/99(H3N2)-like virus, an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus and a B/Sichuan/379/99-like virus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEP’s are sticking to their guns in a political battle with European Union ministers over whether there should be EU legislation laying down noise limits or particular forms of transport operations across the continent. The parliament’s environment committee is resisting a decision by the European Union Council of Ministers to reject amendments that would have strengthened a planned noise directive, making it include commitments to set specific and binding EU noise limits for road vehicles, trains, rail tracks and aircraft.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries have banded together at the World Trade Organisation to call for its Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) to be interpreted as allowing their governments to take any steps “to protect public health,” including the authorisation of generic production of medicines under patent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
LEADING City banks and other financial institutions have agreed to take part in a large-scale computer re-cycling operation costing Pounds 1 million. The scheme, which is jointly financed by Lambeth Council and the European Commission’s LIFE-Environmental programme, has been selected by Brussels as a possible model for other EU cities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries have banded together at the World Trade Organisation to call for its Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) to be interpreted as allowing their governments to take any steps “to protect public health,” including the authorisation of generic production of medicines under patent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched an urgent appeal for US$2.9 million, to fund a mass immunisation campaign fighting a potentially disastrous yellow fever outbreak in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast. The WHO is preparing to deliver vaccine from an international stockpile as soon as possible, but will need to secure more medicines.…