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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUP of senior environmental European non-governmental organisations have written to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, warning that the European Union (EU) was moving away from its past anti-road stance. The Green-10 group, which includes Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, claim that commitments to promote rail and shipping in the Commission’s 2001 transport white paper were being watered down in a current review.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WE’RE barely a third of the way through 2006 but it’s already clear that the year is going to be a hugely important one for European Union (EU) legislation affecting both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks industries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN scientists have confirmed a hybrid bear born of a grizzly bear and a polar bear was recently killed by a sports-hunter in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). The bear was a creamy polar bear colour but also had long claws, a humped back, shallow face and brown patches around its eyes and nose: grizzly traits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEAT, food production and retail businesses have been advised by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to adopt high cleanliness standards to prevent the spread of salmonella in pork, which it acknowledges a serious health risk. In new advice, EFSA said: "Pork, after eggs and poultry meat, is a major source of human foodborne salmonellosis in the European Union (EU)".…

BY MARK ROWE

THE BRITISH museum sector is working with its European counterparts to produce a series of internationally recognised standards to govern the way they work, exhibit and look after their collections.

This move towards harmonisation follows the recent increase in the number of European Union member states and the significant rise in cultural exchanges between museums following this expansion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PUBLISHERS are being asked to comment on draft European Commission plans to reform scientific publishing in Europe. The Commission has suggested an official ranking system for scientific publications: by quality, copyright management, search facilities and archiving. It is also considering using its competition powers to "guarantee a level playing field" in a market where paid-for journals compete with open-access Internet sites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned reliable statistics on the extent of super-bug Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) in Europe is "largely unknown". The dangerous and highly robust germ has been shown present in 10 to 200 hospitalised American patients per 10,000 admissions.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IS the fuel cell bus a runner? The question is key to any passenger transport executive’s decisions on how to meet increasingly stringent emission controls, and the continuing EU HyFLEET:CUTE trials of a fleet of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell Daimler-Benz Citaro buses in London will help UK transport planners to decide for themselves.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend up to Euro 150 million to Esso Highlands Ltd, Oil Search Ltd, and the Papua New Guinea government to develop gas reserves in the country’s Southern Highlands. Gas would be piped 3,500km to eastern Australia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) expert panel has warned about potential mental damage caused by paint strippers containing dichloromethane (DCM). Its scientific committee in health and environmental risks says there is clear evidence of "neurobehavioral changes…after acute exposure to 193 and 300 ppm (parts per million) DCM in air".…