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BY ANDREW CAVE

PUBLIC place smoking bans are spreading like wildlife these days, with one country after another drawing up rules preventing tobacco use where it could expose non-smokers to second-hand smoke.

In the European Union (EU), this year, public place smoking bans have been introduced in England, Estonia and Finland, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s largest lending institution, has issued new transport loan guidelines stressing the bank will pay "particular attention…to developments in air traffic management," regarding air industry lending. It said: "Improvements in this field can contribute not only to improved safety but also to improved efficiency and reduced environmental impact," through reduced greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

ONLY a small fraction of food induced illnesses are reported to the public health authorities because most cases are sporadic and outside recognised outbreaks, Robert Tauxe, of the Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA, told a key Brussels environmental health meeting.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

A CONFERENCE of 500 food health specialists staged in Brussels by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has been told that eating cloned animals is safe. Louis-Marie Houdebine of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) said studies do not indicate differences between clones and naturally bred livestock in meat composition, toxicity or allergenicity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drafted plans to lend Euro 200 million to a joint venture involving FIAT and Turkish automobile manufacturer Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi (TOFAS) to build a new light commercial van. This is expected to replace the existing Fiat Doblo, TOFAS statements have claimed, with around 120,000 vehicles being produced annually (70% for export).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SHIFT in opinion at the European Commission towards actively supporting nuclear power is now long established. And whilst even vocal encouragement was first welcome to an industry that had encountered opposition from parts of the Commission, this support is now more active.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ITALY has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to properly write the 2001 environmental impact assessment directive into its national laws. The court said Rome "had failed to fulfill its obligations" under European treaty commitments, effectively ordering it to comply with the directive, which ensures that large scale industrial developments are investigated to stop them overly polluting the environment, including water courses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) maritime safety committee has accepted an offer from the United States to be the initial temporary host of a global data exchange linking centres for long range identification and tracking (LRIT) systems for shipping.…

BY MARK ROWE and PAUL COCHRANE

IT is something of an understatement to describe Iran as a peripheral player on the international paint scene. The country’s share of the world market in paints and varnishes in 2007 is, according to research analysts Gobi International, just 0.5%.…

BY MARK ROWE

ONE of the most perfidious environmental legacies of communism in eastern Europe was that of mining pollution. In particular, across a swathe of the Balkans, from Albania to Bosnia & Herzegovina, (the former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo, up to 150 mines have been identified by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as areas of concern.…