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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS might fear that the old industrial saying ‘where there’s muck, there’s brass’ may no longer apply to them, but the European Commission is out to prove that crop productivity can be boosted by the filth that can be dumped on land from manufacturing sectors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is consulting the electronics industry on an ecological performance directive, which would force electrical companies to minimise the impact of their processes on the environment.

Brussels’ draft law on the impact of electrical and electronic equipment would order companies to carry out an assessment of their manufacturing systems and would also tell them to “strive to prevent pollution” in the design, distribution and operation of a product.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A EUROPEAN Commission report has tried to give local authorities an insight into how environmental policy can impact on the job market, dismissing claims that tighter rules destroy jobs. Instead, says the report, the effect is broadly neutral with expenditure on waste management generating direct employment in specialised waste management firms and other companies.…

Keith Nuthall
A SURVEY of Wastes Spread on Land produced by the European Commission has supported moves to improve the quality of sludge produced by the textile industry, through the replacement of chemical products, such as chromium and copper salts, by products with a lower environmental impact.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that the European Union is becoming increasingly involved in public water policy, legislating to control the environmental quality of water supplies and watercourses. Brussels ambitions to improve water services do not, however, end at the external borders of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXPENSIVE programmes and legislative initiatives made by the European Union to boost rail, shipping and combined transport, while shrinking the road transport sector, appear to be failing, according to a report TERM 2001, from the European Environment Agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRALIAN government has issued the most comprehensive formal proposal favouring the liberalisation of the shipping industry yet made in the ongoing World Trade Organisation round on services.

Its paper said: “Significant barriers to trade and investment in maritime transport services still exist in many member economies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission announced this week (Monday October 29) that it will ban from June 30, 2003, the use of chemical product hexachloroethane, (HCE), in the manufacture or processing of all non-ferrous metals where it is used to reduce impurities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has appealed for proposals for EU grants, which would fund technological initiatives boosting the clean and efficient use of solid fuels, notably the use of clean coal technologies by power plants to limit emissions such as carbon dioxide.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A STUDY ordered by the European Commission finds that the imposition of environment-friendly waste management regulations can, contrary to longstanding opinion in industry, have a positive effect on employment. According to the report, jobs are created straight away in the waste management industry and while these are offset by potential employment losses in manufacturing companies, the net effect is a small but significant improvement.…