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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union business investment funds have been launched in the UK for four poorer regions eligible for so-called Objective 1 regional development money from Brussels. The European Commission is setting aside Euro 145 million for the funds, which cover Merseyside, South Yorkshire, West Wales and the Valleys, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission is to propose an extension of EUenvironmental legislation in the mining sector following completion of aconsultation exercise with interested parties. Brussels said it had decidedto proceed with three priority actions “to improve the safety of mines,relating to industrial risk management, management of mining waste andintegrated pollution prevention and control.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been authorised to open negotiations with Iran on forging a trade agreement, a deal that would inevitably focus on the country’s vast mineral resources; Brussels thinks that trade with Iran has enormous potential and has an interest in its government abiding by World Trade Organisation rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission will shortly propose legislation significantly expanding the use of bio-fuel by introducing “compulsory market shares for bio-ethanol and bio-diesel in the transport sector,” the European agriculture Commissioner, Franz Fischler, said this week.

Commission officials told Commercial Motor that legislation would ensure that by 2005 at least two per cent of transport fuel throughout the EU came from bio-fuel, (produced from sugar beet, cereals, maize and rapeseed oil), rising gradually to 20 per cent by 2020.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is to launch the world’s first giant space telescope in 2007. Its Herschel Space Observatory will command a primary mirror 3.5 metres in diameter, allowing, said the European Commission, the faintest objects to be observed.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONG struggle to agree EU rules on working time is set to be extended well into next year and maybe beyond, with the European Commission proposing the replacement of the existing planned directive, even before it has been agreed by a conciliation committee representing Member States and the European Parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau has made a public appeal to the Indonesian government to prosecute pirates who were seized earlier this year, but who have yet to face charges in court. The IMB, which is part of the International Chamber of Commerce, is concerned that the pirates may be treated leniently.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A CONCILIATION committee will be formed to try and broker a deal between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers over the contentious proposals for an extension of European working time legislation to the road haulage sector.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN enterprise commissioner Erkki Liikanen has told the European Congress of the Confederation of Linen and Hemp that he wants plans to spend Brussels’ money earmarked for promoting EU agricultural products abroad on marketing textile products made from fibre plants grown in Europe, notably linen.…

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.…