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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NUCLEAR energy industry has always been a global business, and since the fall of communism, it has become more, not less international. As a result, the need for common standards and practices, relevant to the industry, its suppliers and its customers is becoming increasingly important.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) expert committee on emerging risks has warned of a lack of knowledge about the environmental and health effects of using nano-sized particles in food products and packaging. The committee, assessing the suitability of existing risk assessment methods, has called for urgent research, especially regarding the potential environmental risk posed by nanotechnologies – being developed for many food uses, such as nano-particle coatings for chocolates and biscuits.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has a range of significant implications for power generation, a series of leading UK and world experts have told a high-level conference at Britain’s Royal Society. From solar cells to battery storage and fuel cells, nanotechnology will change the way we produce energy, with some impacts already beginning to be rolled out and others expected to become mainstream and commercially viable within 10 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled plans this year to tighten the European Union’s (EU) national emissions ceilings directive, which caps the amount of pollution released in the air within member states. This comes in the Commission’s latest annual environmental policy review, which has been released alongside a mid-term review of its 2002-2012 sixth environment action programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL government is no stranger to the standards of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), and innovative authorities have long used its ISO9000 quality management standards to improve their performance.

And if truth be told, ISO’s detailed formal systems of excellence are a good fit for local government, which likes to have a formal road map for doing better, rather than shooting from the hip like a small business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN today’s highly competitive global markets, utilities and their suppliers are always looking for an edge, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies, Euro 1.8 billion on environmental research and a whopping Euro 9.1 billion on information and communications technology innovation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANY international organisations have an impact on the seafood sector, although they tend to have quite a narrow remit, drawing up specialist health and environmental standards for the industry. However, the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has a broader role, with freedom to pursue a wide variety of imaginative schemes promoting the seafood industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THIS month, the European Union’s (EU) long debated chemical control system REACH has come into force, amidst deepening concern that it could impose overwhelming administrative burdens on the European auto industry, unforeseen when the regulation was approved last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANY lessons have been learned from the tragic deaths of 2,974 people in the World Trade Centre attacks of September 11, and one of the most important for the construction industry could be that fire insulation of steel structures need better protection against major impacts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) expert committee on emerging risks has warned of a lack of knowledge about the environmental and health effects of using nano-sized particles in food and drink products and their packaging. The committee has called for urgent research, especially regarding the potential environmental risk posed by nanotechnologies – being developed for many food and drink uses, such as nano-particle coatings for chocolates and biscuits as well as packaging changing colour when a drink product passes its sell-by date.…