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BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the prime motivations for Japan Tobacco’s takeover of Gallaher Group was to help the company establish a presence in Western Europe, where it figures only slightly. But the most seismic effects of the takeover may well be felt in neighbouring Russia, the world’s third largest cigarette market, where two thirds of men and a third of women are smokers, prices are low despite hikes in excise duties, and the habit has little of the social stigma attached to it in the US and Britain.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has finally approved the small Euro 155 million budget to finance new cross-border energy infrastructure under the EU trans-European network (TENs) programme for 2007-13, while transport gets Euro 8 billion. And at the same time, a European Commission steering committee is suggesting that applications to tap this small spending may also be subject to non-energy considerations, such as regional development plans and environmental issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GREEN paper on potential future European environmental taxes should be released by the European Commission this Wednesday (March 28). The suggested ‘green taxes’ will be designed to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and will come in a consultation paper tabled by European Union taxation Commissioner László Kovács.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from Ghent University in Belgium have developed a non-antibiotic dietary supplement that protects farmed shrimp against bacterial infection – a finding that could help end antibiotic use in seafood production.

The study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Microbiolology said brine shrimp fed a polymer called polyhydroxybutyrate – or PHB – were prevented from becoming infected with the bacteria vibrio campbellii an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that causes significant losses in the farmed seafood sector as an outbreak cannot be treated with antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission may move against a Dutch ban on copper-based anti-fouling paints for leisure boats, after the European Union’s (EU) Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) concluded The Hague had insufficiently justified the law. In an expert opinion, the committee concluded the Netherlands government’s explanation “does not provide sufficient sound scientific evidence to show that the use of copper-based antifouling paints in leisure boats presents significant environmental risk.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from Ghent University in Belgium have developed a non-antibiotic dietary supplement that protects farmed shrimp against bacterial infection – a finding that could help end antibiotic use in fish farming.

The study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Microbiolology said brine shrimp that were fed a compound called a polymer polyhydroxybutyrate – or PHB – were prevented from becoming infected with the bacteria vibrio campbellii an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that causes significant losses in the fish farming sector as an outbreak cannot be treated with antibiotics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FINAL deal has been struck between European Union (EU) ministers and the European Parliament on the budgets for the 2007-13 LIFE programme, which funnels EU funds into environmental projects. This new ‘LIFE+’ scheme commands just less than Euro 1.9 billion (at 2004 prices), with 78% dedicated to project action grants (half of this reserved for schemes fostering nature and biodiversity).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PAINT and coatings manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region could be storing up trouble for themselves if they fail to grasp and act on the full implications of the European Union’s (EU) newly minted REACH system for classifying and labelling chemicals.…