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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

PLANS to lend Euro 400 million to help prepare for a new passenger terminal at Vienna International Airport, Austria, have been unveiled by the European Investment Bank (EIB). The bank wants to help operator Flughafen Wien AG (VIE) design, construct and commission a new passenger terminal and associated airside/landside infrastructure, assessing the project’s environmental impact.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL

WITH Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union (EU) due next year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Euro 15 million to the country’s largest meat processor. The money will help pigmeat producer Boni Holding upgrade equipment and processes, from suppliers’ pig breeding to pork production, enabling them to better compete in the EU when it enjoys duty-free access from next year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DELAYED timetable for introducing the new Euro 5 fuel consumption and emissions standard for many European Union vehicles, including vans, light trucks and cars, has been tabled by the European Parliament’s environment committee. Normally a keen supporter of robust environmental legislation, the committee has accused the European Commission of wanting to rush into mandating Euro 5 by proposing the standard be in force by mid-2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPE’S oldest international research organisation is about to undergo a major organisation to streamline its decision-making processes, enabling a prioritisation of its study topics.
The COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) institution will from June 1 slash the number of its ruling subject ‘domain committees’ from 15 to nine, and institute 75% majority voting, where these institutions cannot form a consensus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NANOTECHNOLOGY is poised to have a significant influence on the recycling industry, with scientists convinced that it will have a significant bearing on how we recycle objects and dispose of redundant items. Most recycling, of glass, paper or plastic takes place at the chemical level of complex molecules and bulk materials, and the presence of undesired elements and compounds often makes recycling difficult or uneconomic.…

BY MARK ROWE

THERE is no doubt that nanotechnology is having a huge bearing on thinking, research and production in the edible oils sector. The reason for this is clear enough: new developments could offer huge coast savings for companies, improve shelf life, taste and even offer health benefits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s radiation section of its nuclear energy directorate has given Estonia a largely clean bill of health regarding radiological protection, but has called for some improvements. Checking the Estonian national monitoring network for environmental radioactivity, the Commission said it should compare its practices with those of other European Union member states to improve “the nature and frequency of sampling”.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

GREEN campaigners from next June will be able to launch legal action to force European Union (EU) institutions to disgorge potentially important environmental information. Under an EU law agreed last week (3 May) by a conciliation committee linking the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, the terms of the UN’s Aarhus Convention on environmental transparency must apply to EU bodies.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

FROM the scorching heat of Kenya’s northern border with the Sudan to the unforgiving conditions of Afghanistan, International Red Cross nurse Jenny Hayward-Karlsson has seen it all during a varied and challenging 20-year career working in the world’s war zones.…