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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a major public consultation exercise, which will include environmental health officers, to forge a common European Union (EU) method for assessing the environmental risks posed by animal feed. This will cover additives and other substances used in animal and fish feed and consider measuring their impact on soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Kyrgyz Republic government are teaming up to assess the environmental danger posed by radioactive dumps left from closed uranium mines. The OSCE said it would secure funding to examine dumps in the country’s south-eastern Minkush region, created in Soviet times from 1958-1969.…

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IRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for using the United Nations Law of the Sea’s dispute settlement procedure to tackle Britain’s pollution of the Irish Sea via the Sellafield plant. The court ruled that in European Union (EU) territorial waters, it had exclusive jurisdiction, and Dublin should have asked it to censure Britain, not the UN.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) have many critics, but one thing is undeniable about the EU: it has a hell of a lot of money to spend.

And this year the EU is setting its medium-term budget for 2007 to 2013, so industries such as the auto-manufacturing sector are lobbying hard for their sectors to be a spending priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has published a report calling on European Union (EU) institutions and member states to put energy conservation at the centre of their security of supply strategies. Said Professor Jacqueline McGlade, EEA executive director: “In the context of rising oil and gas prices and increasing concerns about energy security, it is timely to stress that environmental sustainability must be treated as an equal to securing energy supply.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD, biotechnology and agriculture research projects will command budgets of Euro 1.9 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme proposed by the European Commission of potential relevance to the food sector include Euro 5.9 billion on health, Euro 1.8 million on environmental research, plus Euro 3.4 billion on nanotechnology, materials, and manufacturing.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…

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THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, will buy up to US$15 million of equity in Colombian oil and gas company Grupo Petrotesting. The money will help it expand domestically and internationally, while improving its environmental practice and social programmes.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

THE PAINT industries of Australia and New Zealand and their customers have taken several steps towards a more environmental and socially responsible approach making and applying coatings over the past 12 months, in both commercial and domestic markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DUTCH digital textile printers Ten Cate Advanced Textiles BV and Color Wings BV have won a ‘European Business Award for the Environment’ from the European Commission for "developing a digital technology for printing and finishing textiles using exactly dosed drops".…