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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled it will not allow European Union (EU) governments to give exemptions to companies from waste taxes as a means to pay subsidies – even to help them afford another environmental charge. Its comments came when launching a formal investigation, under its powers as the EU’s government handouts watchdog, into a Danish case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA personal care product sector and its suppliers may face additional controls on the chemicals they buy and use, maybe mirroring Europe’s REACH system. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is drafting reforms to the US Toxic Substances Control Act, branding it an "inadequate tool for providing the protection against chemical risks that the public rightfully expects".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMEA) has released another priority for drug safety research in 2010 – studies into the long-term adverse skeletal effects of bisphosphonates – http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/phv/49371109en.pdf. It has also released an opinion on bisphosphonates and osteonecrosis of the jaw -http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/opiniongen/29112509en.pdf…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ENVIRONMENTAL report is suggesting that auto manufacturers only make reductions to the greenhouse gas emissions from their models when ordered to by compulsory legislation. Europe’s Transport and Environment (T&E) group has released statistics showing that auto manufacturers who have done well in moving towards European Union (EU) emission standards slackened their anti-pollution technical innovation last year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ALL is not well with the European Union (EU)’s ambitious ‘water framework directive’ (WFD). The 2009 timetable has slipped. The 27 EU member states were required to establish their first river basin management plans (RBMPs) for all 110 river basin districts in the EU by the end of this year and include specific measures to ensure that all EU waters reach "good" status by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT is a mind-bending question. How on earth, given the complexity and variety of available biofuels, their feedstocks and manufacturing processes, can their relative ‘green-ness’ be measured efficiently? But, to the delight of mathematicians and technical consultants the world over, this toughest of queries has to be answered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT is a little like the election of a Pope. The five-yearly reappointment of the European Commission – now underway – is shrouded in complex procedure and murky backroom deals. Closed discussions between Europe’s power-brokers in Brussels offices, embassies and national capitals divide up the available positions – currently there are 27: one per member state.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MATERIALS recycling companies can tap a major Euro 3.2 billion programme of European Union (EU) environmental research spending that was been launched last week (13-7).

At a ceremony in Brussels involving more than 800 senior researchers and industrialists, the European Commission unveiled three private-public partnerships funding R&D projects across Europe.…

BY SHABTAI GOLD

THE CREW over at Top Gear, the BBC petrol-lovers show, recently declared that the Switzerland part of the Alpine mountain range has some of the best roads in the world for driving. But they were in top sports cars, costing a fortune and hardly designed for bringing farmers’ produce to the supermarkets.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

A NEW report published by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) is asking European policy makers to consider global environmental sustainability and impacts on developing countries when changing the European Union (EU)’s common agricultural policy (CAP).…