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KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH hauliers may not in future find themselves at such a competitive disadvantage with eastern European competitors regarding the commercial transport of animals, because of a planned updating to a Council of Europe welfare convention.

Its commitments apply to countries both outside and within the European Union, where hauliers already have to comply with expensive rules on trailer standards, journey times, rest periods and the watering and feeding of livestock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL plan to halt the spread of tuberculosis has been launched by a coalition of international groups, including the World Bank and the World Health Organisation; it has already appealed to national governments to pledge substantial funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSULTATION round has been a launched by the so-called G-10 pharmaceuticals group, set up by the European Commission to consider ways of enhancing the industry’s competitiveness, whilst safeguarding patient interests.

Comments have been requested on a paper, which examines issues such as pricing, information to patients, cost-effectiveness, competitiveness, benchmarking, innovation and generics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT of the cost of European Commission plans to introduce legislation to control the emission of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons has been released in Brussels. The study examines the benefits to human health of reducing concentrations of PAH’s in the air to meet different possible limit values, and the economic costs involved in meeting them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is consulting the electronics industry on an ecological performance directive, which would force electrical companies to minimise the impact of their processes on the environment.

Brussels’ draft law on the impact of electrical and electronic equipment would order companies to carry out an assessment of their manufacturing systems and would also tell them to “strive to prevent pollution” in the design, distribution and operation of a product.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S tobacco industry is risking a political struggle by missing a deadline, set by the federal government, to remove terms such as “light” and “mild” from cigarette packets, claiming that more time is needed to properly inform consumers on a new system that would replace the traditional descriptions.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IMPORTANT reforms in air safety have been approved by the European Parliament in its first reading of legislation to create a new European Aviation Safety Agency. In particular MEP’s want to set up a new independent authority, on the lines of the US National Transportation Safety Board and separate from the EASA, to investigate aircraft accidents and make recommendations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
LABELS on drinks sold as health supplements – which contain “healthy” vitamins or minerals – will have to carry specific information as to content and usage under an EU directive approved by EU ministers in a “political agreement” today Thursday.…

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
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.…