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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked Eurpopean Union ministers to authorise in the EU a new intense sweetener used in soft drinks called sucralose. The EU Scientific Committee on Food has approved its safety and set an Acceptable Daily Intake of 15 mg/kg of bodyweight.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has backed bids by both France and Spain to host the large ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in, respectively, the cities of Cadarache and Vandellós. His support follows the announcement that Japan has formally proposed the city of Rokkasho as a site, joining Canada in making a formal application.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given the green light to a proposed joint venture between the Spanish companies, Canal de Isabel II and Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico which will develop power supplies in Madrid, including generation, distribution and supply. Water services company Canal already provides electricity services in Madrid through its subsidiary Hidráulica de Santillana, while power company Hidroeléctrica’s base is in Asturias, in northern Spain.…

Keith Nuthall
THE BIG fear of environmentalists, that global warming is melting the world’s ice caps, is maybe not true after all, at least this year, with European Space Agency surveys showing that pack ice has been unusually heavy in the Antarctic sea, trapping ships trying to deliver supplies to polar scientific bases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is to be taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission for allegedly failing to prioritise the processing of waste oils by regeneration, supposedly breaking the Waste Oils Directive. The UK is also facing an ECJ case over claims that it has not implemented the Landfill Directive for the whole country, notably in Northern Ireland.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A LEGAL challenge launched by a Norwegian farmed salmon exporter against the imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duties against its products sold in the European Union has failed at the European Court of Justice.

Dismissing Arne Mathisen AS’s claim and ordering it to pay its costs and those of the EU Council of Ministers, the ECJ backed the European Commission’s decision to ignore promises made by the company to keep is costs high enough to avoid the punishing protective duties.…

KEITH NUTHALL
SPINOFF technology from the European Space Agency has been used to create knitted steel flameproof textiles, which have been designed to protect the outside of road haulage containers from vandals. French company Société Ariégeoise de Bonneterie has adapted materials used on ESA’s Ariane rocket launchers, modifying the knitting technique to create a flexible fabric of steel wire that is extremely difficult to cut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked Belgium to liberalise laws impeding laboratories from carrying out clinical analyses for patients. The Commission wants Belgium to scrap regulations insisting that for such laboratories to receive money via the country’s social insurance scheme, they have to be headed up administratively by doctors, pharmacists or chemical science graduates.…

BY PHILIP FINE

ALTHOUGH the US textile lobby is breathing a sigh of relief over the recently delayed European Union tariffs textiles and clothing, it is warning that job losses would follow any final decision to go ahead with retaliation to the US steel safeguard duties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL exemption for the insurance sector from European Union laws insisting on free and unfettered competition between companies in Europe is to be extended, albeit with changes improving the rights of policy-holders and other consumers.

This ‘block exemption’ from EU competition legislation is due to expire next March 31, and the European Commission is now consulting the industry on reforms to the system that it wants to put in place on its renewal.…