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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Union scientific committee has opposed a ban imposed by the Dutch government on copper-based anti-fouling coatings being applied to pleasure boats sailed in the Netherlands, opening the way for possible legal action by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of the European Commission’s plan to create a comprehensive European Union (EU) environmental health strategy have been unveiled by its environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom in a speech to a conference in Warsaw. She told environmental health specialists that a draft action plan would be presented to EU ministers next spring and would be debated in full at the Fourth Pan-European Environment and Health Ministerial Conference in Budapest, Hungary, in June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Union scientific committee has opposed a ban imposed by the Dutch government on copper-based anti-fouling coatings being applied to pleasure boats sailed in the Netherlands, opening the way for possible legal action by the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY Sweden and Denmark must do more to prevent nutrient-rich water run-off from their rivers and coasts killing thousands of fish in the western Baltic Sea, said an international research project. The official Baltic Sea international environmental watchdog The Helsinki Commission – tasked with investigating mass deaths of fish in the region in 2002 – has concluded that higher levels of nutrients from agriculture, urban wastewater and air pollution poured into the sea after heavy rain and snow the previous winter, creating algal blloms that starved the lower levels of the western Baltic of oxygen over the summer and autumn of last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament (EP) is expected early next month to approve the creation of a special investigative committee tasked with improving maritime safety standards. The parliament’s Conference of Presidents (a committee of party leaders and top officials) will propose the creation of the temporary committee, at the EP’s next plenary session – on November 5 and 6.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a new database including comprehensive information on 23,000 European species of flora and fauna, their habitats and protected sites. The EEA’s European Nature Information System (EUNIS) can be accessed for free at http://eunis.eea.eu.int/eunis/index.jsp.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to offer large livestock farms amnesty from lawsuits over excessive air pollution if they participate in a study monitoring emissions from feedlots and manure pools. Conservation groups say the plan is too lenient, given that the agency already has the authority to order air pollution monitoring.…

BY PHILIP FINE

MEAT producers can now go on-line to analyse the feasibility of launching a processing facility. A downloadable template from the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, at the USA’s Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University calculates the costs, returns and feasibility of a cow and bull slaughter plant, taking in variables such as supply, transportation, environmental issues and energy costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend the city government of Lyon, France, Euro 150 million to modernise its drinking water supply and waste water disposal systems. The plan includes the renewal of Lyon’s 3,600 kilometres of drinking water supply pipelines, to bring the city in line with European Union environmental health quality rules.…