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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has taken clear steps towards the adoption of a law, which would compel the freezing of assets in any of its member countries because of a court order issued in any other EU state. This regulation covers “the transfer of property to be used as evidence, for the purpose of confiscation or for restitution to the victim of an offence.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SLEW of new measures tightening up the labelling and composition of soaps, detergents and possibly the perfumes used in them, has been suggested by the European Commission. Its ideas are only at the “working document” stage, but are being put up for consultation with the industry, consumers associations and others and could form the basis for legislation later in the year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURELECTRIC has welcomed the publication of guidelines from the European Commission that encourage local and national public authorities to use EU legislation on public procurement to promote the purchase of environmentally friendly goods and services.

Importantly, said Lars Peter Svane, the federation’s head of market regulation, the Commission’s “interpretive communication” does not advise local and national governments to adapt procurement practices so that environmental good practice automatically becomes a sales condition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTENATIONAL organisation committed to developing a workable fusion reactor has formally decided to move ahead with the next stage of its plan to develop the first fusion device to produce thermal energy at the level of a commercial power station.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has run out of patience with France and Belgium over their flouting of the EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and has decided to launch legal cases against the two countries at the European Court of Justice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MULTILATERAL sea and river organisations are usually created to deal with existing problems that cross national borders, but a new body has been making progress on a shipping issue that has yet even to happen: the exploitation and transport of subterranean solid mineral deposits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed its anticipated list of maximum dioxin contamination limits for food products. The levels for fish are as predicted last week in Environmental Health News. For dairy products, beef and sheep-meat it is three nanograms per kilogram of fat, for example.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITISH hauliers could face new obstacles at trans-alpine crossings in Austria, if a decision by the transport committee of the European Parliament to reject proposals for increasing the number of trips across the Alps is backed by the full assembly.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SHIPPING companies working throughout the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River and its navigation seaways are being forced to carry less cargo because of very low water levels, worse than those recorded in 1999 and 2000, when there was also a water shortage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is playing its part in the debate over whether companies should be given additional duties for promoting health and safety and a clean environment, by publishing a green paper on Promoting a European Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility.…