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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPETITIVENESS report by the European Commission has claimed that environmental improvements made European Union (EU) industries in 2002 has not blunted their efficiency. The paper says that despite large reductions in greenhouse, acidifying, ozone-depleting, and ozone-precursor gases, EU manufacturing industry made strides in boosting productivity, compared with rivals in Japan and the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending E.ON Hungária Euro 125 million to boost the efficiency of Hungary’s electricity and transmission networks, as part of a Euro 650 million package, a significant portion of which is destined for utility projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has announced it will build a second nuclear power plant to replace the outdated Kozloduy power station, which the European Union (EU) insists should be closed by 2006. Construction will take place at Belene, in northern Bulgaria where work started on building a 1,000-megawatt plant in 1987, but ceased in 1991 following environmental campaigns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW socialist government in Spain has rewritten plans developed by its conservative predecessor to boost water supplies in the south, proposing a Euro 3.7 billion scheme that relies heavily on desalination plants. Dumping controversial plans to transfer water from the northern Ebro river basin to southern Spain, the José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero government has also proposed making improvements to existing water facilities and better exploiting groundwater reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UKRAINE has come under pressure from European Union (EU) representatives to reform its nuclear sector at the fifth meeting of the EU-Ukraine Co-operation Council. EU ministers and officials especially called on Kiev to boost environmental standards in the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUNDBREAKING legal watchdog has started its first investigations into whether governments are abiding by the international Aarhus Convention on environmental decision-making and information dissemination. This convention compliance committee can rule on breaches, telling governments they need to release information or consult more widely on proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUNDBREAKING legal watchdog has started its first investigations into whether governments are abiding by the international Aarhus Convention on environmental decision-making and information dissemination, with one probe focusing on nuclear waste. This convention compliance committee can rule on breaches, telling governments they need to release information or consult more widely on proposals.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AS American newspapers today report intelligence sources saying that Islamic terrorists are planning another attack on US soil this summer, the country’s insurance industry is still dealing with the aftershocks of the September 11th disaster.

Another attack would be mist unwelcome as according to the American Insurance Association, when all claims from September 11th have been processed, insurance losses will total between US$40 and US$50 billion, being by far the most devastating and catastrophic event for the US industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers is backing the creation of harmonised rules for the type approval of non-road mobile machinery engines (and tractors) manufactured in Europe, as regards their net power, net torque and specific fuel consumption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ESTONIA should hasten its electricity market liberalisation, helping to promote investment in an oil shale industry fuelling most power generation, the European Commission has proposed. It has asked European Union (EU) ministers to approve a derogation from the EU’s electricity liberalisation directive requiring full market opening – including the right to secure energy materials from any source – by 2012.…