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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has bit the bullet and drawn up plans to lend US$250 million to help build the planned key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A FIERCE row over the blame for the electricity blackout which affected virtually the whole of Italy on September 28 has broken out between the Italian, Swiss and French governments, which may delay Rome’s moves towards liberalisation of its energy markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HIGH level meeting involving the European Union’s (EU) most senior energy official and Russia’s vice-prime minister has kick-started moves to interconnect the EU and Russian power grids, leading to a final decision on the technical means by 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UPSET and concern has been caused amongst European utilities by the extension agreed last week of a European Union (EU) system of minimum tax rates for mineral oils to all energy products, including electricity and natural gas. From the New Year, these products will attract minimum indirect taxes (excluding VAT), with the rates detailed in the directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suggested the creation of a ‘Made in Europe’ label to promote the sale of quality European clothing competing against cheap imports from developing countries. Part of a grand plan to boost the European Union clothing and textile industry, a label could offer consumers a “guarantee of high environmental and social standards” in clothes production, said EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONCE again significant recovery of coal mining in Kosovo has been frustrated by unforeseen natural disasters – in this case the collapse last November of the coal face in the Bardh coal mine after very heavy rain, causing serious damage to equipment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed a code of practice on the environmentally-friendly use of road salts which should provide good practice advice for British environmental health departments. The guidelines have been developed because of concern that melt-water from roads and storage areas have resulted in high concentrations of chloride in Canadian rivers and lakes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is moving towards imposing Stage III emission limits on newly manufactured plant, with the European Parliament debating plans to withhold type approval for tractors, cranes, bulldozers and other non-road mobile engines. Under the proposals, which have already been approved in principle by the EP’s environment committee, new levels for nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions will be introduced for engines (other than constant speed motors) of 130 kW to 560 kW from June 30, 2005; of 75 to 130 kW and 19 to 37 kW from December 31, 2005; of 37 to 75 kW from December 31, 2006.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 20 million to Serbia’s Belgrade International Airport and the Montenegro Airport Management Company to upgrade their passenger terminals. The money would help modernise Belgrade airport, extending its existing building, installing air conditioning, replacing check-in counters, remote control and video surveillance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN 1995, when I visited the Laos capital Vientiane, it was a sleepy place; a quiet low rise French colonial town on the banks of the Mekong, a listless, aimless, but charming mix of Soviet-style socialist monuments, Buddhist temples and Provencal town houses.…