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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NON-FERROUS metal industry will be disappointed by amendments passed at this week’s European Parliament environment committee on the REACH chemical control system, which will make it more onerous for the sector. Its lobbyists will now have until the parliament’s plenary meeting next month (Nov) to persuade MEPs to reject the changes formally tabled by the committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) plastics converter industry federation, the EUPC, has welcomed an amendment to the EU’s REACH chemical control process that would – if finally approved – remove waste from the system’s environmental health assessments.

Walter Claes, the EUPC’s health, safety and environment director, said: “To apply reach blindly to recycling could have made recycling extremely difficult”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH Coatings Federation (BCF) has called on a November full sitting of the European Parliament to reverse changes proposed last week (Wed5-10) to the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, that would make life tougher for the paint and coatings sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched five European Union (EU)-funded food-related research projects.

*Europrevall: reducing the potential within foods to spark allergic reactions and investigating how processing methods can increase allergenicity – http://www.europrevall.org/;

*Repro-food: reducing the environmental impact of food waste through cutting landfilling, while promoting eco-friendly processing methods and natural ingredients – http://www.repro-food.net/;…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWEDISH car and truck giant Volvo has announced it will make its lorry manufacturing plant in the Gothenburg suburb of Tuve, southern Sweden, the first in the world to operate without generating carbon dioxide. Its power supply will be based from 2007 on five large wind power generators and a new biofuel factory next to the assembly unit.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
STANDFIRST

AMERICA’S post 9/11 AML legislation does not only affect the formal banking sector, it controls other savings and investment institutions too, and in different ways. Alan Osborn reports.

MUTUAL FUNDS

ALTHOUGH there have been some complaints, by and large America’s mutual funds have accepted with reasonable grace the anti money laundering legislation brought in by the US government since the September 11 attacks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is being pressed to fund France’s plan to establish a European Digital Library as a rival to US-based Internet search engines such as Google, which wants to scan 15 million books. A second meeting of the library’s advisory council also heard that Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Italy have formally agreed to be involved in the project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend state-owned Kyrgyz gold and silver miner Kyrgyzaltyn Open Joint Stock Company US$12 million in working capital. The money will be used to improve the Kyrgyzstan company’s corporate governance, including better audit, accounting and risk controls, following advice already made by consultants Deloitte and Touche.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has postponed agreement of new regulations governing how mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt, with the sulphides being found around volcanic areas and the crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN OPTIMISTIC picture has been painted about future European Union (EU) air pollution by the European Environment Agency (EEA), which is predicting all emissions of land-based pollutants (except ammonia) will decline by more than 35% by 2030. In its ‘state of the environment and outlook’ report for 2005, the EEA adds that the use of all feasible technical measures would actually offer “a considerable potential for further reductions in air emissions”.…