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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NEW volcanic gas and ash detector created by Australian scientists could enable the airport and airline industries to save both money and lives. The ‘Ground-based Infra-Red Detection’ (G-bIRD) system is being developed by Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) and the country’s Tenix Defence Electronic Systems division.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST Europe-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water has been launched by the European Environment Agency and the European Commission. This European Pollutant Emission Register is available on the Internet and contains detailed information on pollution from around 10,000 large industrial facilities in the European Union and Norway, including large pig and poultry farms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN electricity federation Eurelectric is calling for wide-ranging economic assessments to be held into future plans to bury high or very high voltage power cables, rather than erect them above ground, because of cost and other concerns. In a formal statement, Eurelectric noted that the European Commission “sees undergrounding…as an increasingly promising technology for overcoming environmental/planning constraints on the construction of new electricity transmission lines.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEGOTIATIONS on the final shape of a European Union (EU) environmental liability directive, held between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers have proved successful and the legislation will now come into force. Importantly, MEPs and ministers agreed that the Commission should review the directive within six years of its operation, to see whether the financial services sector has developed sufficient insurance policies and other guarantees to cover polluters against claims based on the directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE European Union (EU) research programmes affecting meat production should be reoriented towards consumer protection, animal welfare standards and environmental good practice rather than food production technology, the European Parliament has said. Its suggestions came in a report on the current and next EU (sixth and seventh) framework programme for research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into the environmental conditions sparking asthma and allergies in Europe are to be carried out by an expert network (GA2LEN) funded by Euro 14.4 million in EU research grants. The initiative involves 650 researchers in 16 countries and will investigate national contrasts in allergy rates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a moratorium on new pollution control proposals from the European Commission, claiming that national governments have quite enough new European Union (EU) legislation to absorb and administer already. Overwhelmingly backing a non-binding report on the Commission’s recent policy paper on integrated pollution prevention and control, MEPs called on the Commission and ministers “not to supplement or expand the relevant legislation at present.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVISIONS to a European nuclear energy liability convention will increase the total accident compensation available from operators in 15 countries to Euro 1.5 billion, up from Euro 350 million. Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have now signed the Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Bulgaria Euro 35 million to install flue gas desulphurisation plants and other clean-up technologies at the 1,450 MW lignite-fired Maritza East 2 power plant.…