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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the spending of Euro 114 million for financing BSE and scrapie monitoring in livestock and another Euro 40.45 million for the eradication and monitoring of 13 major animal diseases in the Member States, also including scrapie, along with brucellosis, tuberculosis, rabies and salmonellosis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT of the cost of European Commission plans to introduce legislation to control the emission of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons has been released in Brussels. The study examines the benefits to human health of reducing concentrations of PAH’s in the air to meet different possible limit values, and the economic costs involved in meeting them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been ordered to conclude wide-ranging research agreements on nuclear energy with the Russian Federation, focusing on general safety within the industry and fusion power generation. Brussels has also been told by EU ministers to strike a deal with Kazakhstan on fusion research.…

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
CERTAIN heavy-duty yarns have been included on a list of dual-use goods proposed by the European Commission for tight export restrictions from the EU, because of concerns that they be used to create weapons for terrorists and the military of unreliable foreign regimes.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
GERMANY’S coal industry is to be allowed to receive Euro two billion, (about DM 4 billion and Pounds 1.2 billion), in state aid from January 1, 2002, to July 23, in 2002, the European Commission has agreed. The grants will cover operating aid of DM 1.9 billion, (Pounds 580 million), aid for the reduction of activity of DM 785 million, (Pounds 238 million), aid to maintain the underground mining workforce of DM 33 million, (Pounds 10 million), and exceptional charges of DM 1.32 billion, (Pounds 400 million).…

Keith Nuthall
Ministers also struck a compromise over the controversial question of the location of tribunals or courts resolving any dispute, whether they should be in the country of the consumer or of the company. Abandoning Commission proposals that it should be that of the company, ministers agreed that the consumer should decide, much to the irritation of FEDMA, the European Direct Marketing Association.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given the go ahead for the British government to grant Euro 10 million, (Pounds 6.4 million), in state aid to two coal mines, operating losses for 2000 and 2001. The money will go to Longannet Mine of Mining (Scotland) Ltd, (Pounds 5.4 million), and Aberpergwm Colliery of Anthracite Mining Ltd, Wales, (Pounds 1 million).…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally issued an awaited regulation that will require the labels of fish and fish products to contain more detailed information to better inform consumers and help officials police the Common Fisheries Policy.

Under the new rules, from 1 January 2002, all fish products on sale at retailers will have to be labelled with the following information:

*The commercial name of the species, with the common term used in each Member State being used for local sales;

*The production method of the fish, being wild, farmed or cultivated in fresh water or at sea;

*The area where the fish was caught.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has developed what appears to be the rather unlikely plan to lend US$25 million to a South Korean-owned shipbuilding firm, in a bid to increase its industrial capacity. Although the proposed loan would actually be spent on boosting Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s operations in Mangalia, a Black Sea coast town in Romania, near the Bulgarian border, the bank is said to be aware of the political sensitivities.…