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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is Europe’s laggard for implementing European Union (EU) environmental law, the European Commission has concluded. It its latest assessment of compliance with EU green regulations and directives, it notes 11 instances of France being recently censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) or threatened with legal action by the Commission over non-compliance with environmental legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL change can be like growing seasons, it moves gradually, but in a month or two, the landscape has completely changed. So when the recently appointed European Commission takes office in November, the new commissioners of concern for the farming industry will face challenges unanticipated this summer.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE GROWING use of adhesives in the manufacture of automotive interiors is not only helping to meet the demands of consumers in terms of aesthetics and car performance, but is also satisfying environmental regulators. But could these bonding processes also be more widely used in the construction of car exteriors in the near future?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) says the old 15 member European Union’s (EU) greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years. Sadly, proactive anti-global warming measures were not top of the agency’s reasons for the cut.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHILDREN living near petrol stations and car repair garages have a significantly higher rate of leukaemia, according to a study published in the UK journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The French National Institute of Health and Medical Research paper on 565 children suggested exposure to benzene caused the cancers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RENEWABLE energy and CHP sectors will be closely studying the appointment of new European commissioners for energy and the environment, who take office this November, especially as the change of guard means the departure of energy commissioner Loyola de Palacio.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a handbook guiding local authorities in how to further environmental policy goals through their purchasing policies, without breaking European Union public procurement rules. This Handbook on Green Public Procurement gives best-practice examples while advising about dealing with all steps of procurement procedures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) LIFE environment programme has been extended for another two years to 2005 and 2006, when it will command a budget of Euro 317.2 million. The scheme finances the development of innovative environmental techniques and methods and was prolonged by the EU Council of Ministers, with Portugal opposing the move.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WIDEST possible processing of farmed fish is to be promoted by a new European Fisheries Fund, whose details have recently been unveiled for approval by ministers. The Euro 4.96 million budget proposed by the European Commission for 2007-13, and a similar annual pro-rata share over the next three years, would be earmarked for securing “the greatest possible added value” to fish.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IF the Danish agriculture minister Mariann Fischer Boel succeeds in winning the farm portfolio in the new European Commission, for which she has been nominated by the new president Senhor Jose Manuel Barroso, she may well rank as the most outspokenly reformist politician to have held the post.…