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BY KEITH NUTHALL AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has been toughening EU legislation controlling the export of potentially toxic chemicals and chemical waste, including those used by the plastics sector. MEPs amended proposals from the European Commission that would erase a loophole allowing exports without the permission of the importing country’s regulators, if they did not respond within 60 days.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

NANOMATERIALS have been finding their way into cosmetics and personal care products for years now, but until recently, the term meant different things to different manufacturers – and almost nothing to consumers. It is not until the European Commission came out with a common European Union (EU) definition for nanomaterials last October – materials whose main constituents have a dimension of between 1 billionth and 100 billionth of a metre (or 0.000000001 metre) – that cosmetics companies finally gained a clear guideline under which to define certain properties of their products.…

BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES AND POORNA RODRIGO

NEW technologies in transport are offering delivery and wholesale managers potential fuel savings on their transport budgets, especially when the customer base is in a limited range from a wholesale hub. Some companies are looking at buying a fleet of electric cars and vans and assessing how much money can be saved – so depot managers used to operating standard combustion engine vehicles beware: green change could be looming.…

BY HANA KAMARUDDIN IN SELANGOR, MALAYSIA

ASIAN universities are engaged in ground-breaking projects to counter waste, boost the use of alternative fuels, and reduce emission of greenhouse gases. Researchers at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) have collaborated with Azhar Food Industries, both being in the Malaysian state of Johor – to install a mini biodiesel plant in the latter’s factory

Azhar Food Industries makes potato chips and crisps for the local market.…

BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN GREECE AND GERARD O’DWYER, IN HELSINKI

MINERAL experts in Greece and Nordic countries have agreed with the verdict of the European Geosciences Union’s recent annual meeting in Vienna that the European Union (EU) should exploit rare earths reserves in Nordic countries and Greece to improve its supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing to release calls for research proposals commanding millions of Euros of European Union (EU) funding, offering opportunities for innovative liquid fuel and oil production. The initiative is the last batch of funding under the outgoing EU seventh framework programme on research, which ends next year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MEAT trade is being asked whether the European Union (EU) should loosen or tighten its rules on the use of cloned animals for meat production. The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the issue, which closes on September 3: it is designed to enlighten Brussels officials so they can propose fresh legislation on the issue next year (2013).…

BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA

The Canadian minister of the environment has established a three-member review panel to assess, for the second time, the environmental impact of a proposed project at one of Canada’s largest undeveloped gold-copper deposits.

Its probe will consider a proposed 20-year development of the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project in British Columbia, located north of Vancouver about 125 km southwest of Williams Lake, by Vancouver -based mining company Taseko.…

BY VILLEN ANGANAN, IN PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS

ACCA fellows can be found in many influential positions worldwide. And in Africa, they are often the backbone of financial and management best practice. That is certainly the case on the Indian Ocean state of Mauritius, where environment and sustainable development minister and ACCA member Devanand Virahsawmy, 62, belongs to the inner circle of prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, who secured a second mandate in May 2010 elections.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

DESPITE the US government’s great need for new tactics to combat cartel-related money laundering activities, recent budget cuts are limiting the potential development of highly useful tools in this fight – including a bulk currency detector able to sense large quantities of money hidden in speeding vehicles.…