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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE AUSTRIAN government has failed at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to secure an abolition of the current ecopoints system that Vienna claims insufficiently controls the movement of lorries across its Alpine passes. Austria argued that this issuing of pollution-based permits to hauliers broke the European Union (EU) legal principle of ‘proportionality’, which requires that laws must be "both adequate and necessary for attaining the objective concerned".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THEY may take a few years to come into effect, but binding international rules now under discussion, to cover ship recycling will "green" the dirty and unacceptable face of an unregulated industry notorious for environmental damage and appalling working conditions.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is seeking to improve knowledge of what causes food allergies, a significant problem for the seafood sector. The EuroPrevall project will try to identify risk factors (environmental, microbial, genetic) that cause allergic reactions, helping pinpoint the circumstances sparking these problems.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE EUROPEAN automotive industry is gearing up for tighter pollution emission limits, possibly by mid-2008, under the European Union’s (EU) Euro 5 program, due to be announced by the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium on 21 December. Also expected to be announced in parallel to these restrictions on engine performance and fuel cleanliness is a carrot to encourage use of new technologies and to create a market for clean vehicles through an EU Environmental Technologies Action Plan.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

EUROPE’S clothing and textile industries have reported mixed feelings about the proposed agreement on the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control policy, which won agreement in principle from the EU Council of Ministers for competitiveness ministers this week (December 13).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is seeking to improve knowledge of what causes food allergies, a significant problem for the seafood sector. The EuroPrevall project will try to identify risk factors (environmental, microbial, genetic) that cause allergic reactions, helping pinpoint the circumstances sparking these problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITAIN has been given a generally positive report on its environmental performance by a detailed and long-term European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Overall, the EEA said that the UK was "fortunate to have implemented a series of structural economic changes in the recent past that have brought environmental improvements".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW owner of two steel rolling mills in Macedonia has borrowed Euro 25 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to improve their energy efficiency and expand local working capital. Mittal Steel bought two Skopje-area rolling mills last year from Balkan Steel, which had financial difficulties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FORMAL agreement within a conciliation committee by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers and the European Parliament of a new mining waste directive has been welcomed by EU environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. He said: “This is a very good result and will…tackle environmental and human health impacts throughout the life-cycle of mining waste facilities”.…