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BY KEITH NUTHALL
INSURANCE industry federations will be consulted on the drafting of a Green Paper by the European Commission, which will herald a major and comprehensive review of European Union legislation and programmes affecting Europe’s seas and oceans. Participants will consider disaster reduction, environmental issues, transport, tourism, oil and gas extraction, fishing and aquaculture, considering how future changes in each of these areas could negatively impact others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has signalled a move away from imposing European Union (EU)-wide environmental standards as a means to green the continent. It has agreed with the European Commission that a new EU directive on groundwater should let national governments set their own standards of cleanliness.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ALLERGIC reactions to cockroaches cause worse asthma attacks in children than dust mite or pet allergens according to a new study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Institute of Allergy in the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH security of energy supplies being a key concern of the European Union (EU), and the subject of legislation under discussion in Brussels, it is no surprise that the EU devotes millions of Euros to developing the oil and gas sector of the former USSR.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GUIDELINE for environmental risk assessments on human medicines and their development has been released by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), (see http://www.emea.eu.int/pdfs/human/swp/444700en.pdf). Meanwhile, the London-based EU agency has also released a guideline on submitting marketing approval applications for pandemic flu vaccines (http://www.emea.eu.int/pdfs/human/veg/19303104en.pdf).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accused nine European Union (EU) governments of dragging their feet over promoting biofuels in their countries. It has sent critical formal notices to Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Slovenia accusing them of failing to submit national reports framing 2005 targets for biofuel consumption, as required under the Biofuels Directive.…

BY LIZ HALL
SPAIN’S paint and coating industry has every right to be self-congratulatory at present: the widespread investment and business improvements of recent years have paid off with the sector securing a well-earned place alongside its counterparts elsewhere in the developed world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 2005 Yearbook of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned environmental change is spreading diseases beyond their traditional range, while causing pathogens to mutate and become more deadly.

It includes a number of case studies, illustrating one message: “Loss of forests, road and dam building, the spread of cities, the clearing of natural habitats for agriculture, mining and the pollution of coastal waters are promoting conditions under which new and old pathogens can thrive”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REHABILITATION of Tsunami damaged mangroves would help repair environmental damage caused by the Asian disaster, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, but large-scale planting should be undertaken carefully where they could replace other valuable ecosystems, such as sea grass beds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGY enabling local authorities to issue targeted alerts about impending air pollution or other environmental problems will be presented to a global telecommunications summit this November. The UN meeting in Tunisia will learn of the European Union (EU)-funded Air Pollution Network for Early warning and on-line information Exchange (APNEE) project, which could also, its developers say, warn citizens about oncoming disasters, such as storms and tidal waves.…