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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has moved to remove drafting problems from a crucial new European Union waste framework directive insisting upon a hierarchy of waste treatment for all materials. Put simply, all governments, regulators and public policy developers would ensure waste is: first prevented; second reused; third recycled; fourth recovered; and only finally, disposed of.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

AS the European Parliament votes through the mechanism for setting up the Euro V fuel and engineering cleanliness standards for the automotive industry, to come into effect from 2009, the health case for bringing in the even tougher Euro VI rules, and then Euro VII, VIII and even IX sooner rather than later continues to build.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved in principle the EU’s health programme for 2007-13, telling the European Commission it wants more information on how health problems are linked to broader environmental, economic and social issues in Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will give Euro 1.9 million to a water purification initiative using the simplest method imaginable – simply leaving a water bottle out in the sun. The SODISWATER project will demonstrate to developing countries the benefits and ease of using solar disinfection to prevent water-borne diseases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLDWIDE plan to promote the recycling of electronic waste could emerge from the oncoming and eighth meeting of the conference of the parties to the Basel Convention, in Kenya – its first session in Africa – from November 27 to December 1.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has announced plans to wean Armenia off nuclear energy and onto renewables, rather than funding replacements for its ageing Soviet-era reactors. One unit at the former Soviet republic’s Metsamor plant currently supplies 40% of the country’s energy; a twin unit has been mothballed since a 1988 earthquake shook the power station, 75 km south of the epicentre.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending 320 million Chinese Yuan – RMB (US$40.8 million) to leading China pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor the Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceuticals Company. The IFC said the loan would support Chinese pharmaceutical sector reforms, while enabling Fosun Pharma to expand production of its anti-malaria products, build capacity and standardise environmental, health and safety management systems throughout its subsidiaries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 ‘Green Award’ to a collaborative aquaculture industry-international organisation study that produced global and detailed advice on reducing pollution problems caused by shrimp farming. The Network for Aquaculture Centres for the Asia Pacific teamed with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), WWF, the UN Environment Programme and the bank itself to form the Consortium on Shrimp Farming and the Environment.…

BY ANDREW CAVE, in Bologna

ENFORCEMENT of the incoming European Union (EU) regulation on nutritional and health claims on food labelling will be a major issue for local authorities, according to European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) official Albert Flynn.

Mr Flynn, chair of EFSA’s dietetic products, nutrition and allergies panel, said in an interview with Environmental Health News at an EFSA conference in Bologna, Italy: "This is an important issue that is outside the brief of EFSA."…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will give Euro 1.9 million to a water purification initiative using the simplest method imaginable – simply leaving a water bottle out in the sun. The SODISWATER project will demonstrate to developing countries the benefits and ease of using solar disinfection to prevent water-borne diseases.…