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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REVIEW of European safety laws designed to prevent industrial explosions – such as that which recently ripped through the Atofina fertiliser plant in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people and injuring 2,400 – is to be launched by a specialist EU committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRECIOUS metal dealers are to be included within the scope of an expanded EU money laundering directive, after a deal was struck between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers over the final shape of reforms to the legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WASTE produced by the pharmaceutical industry should not be spread on land without a detailed evaluation of its contents and properly qualified advice of its potential effect on the environment, a report from the European Commission has claimed.…

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 EUROPEAN Union has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the WTO against Argentina, whom it accuses of wrongfully imposing countervailing duties on imported EU canned peaches. It has staged formal talks on the issue with Buenos Aires.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the injection of approved investment by the Spanish government into auto-maker Santana Motor SA, to improve efficiency and productivity at its Andalucia plant.

Santana Motor, a wholly owned by a subsidiary company of L’Instituto de Fomento de Andalucia, is involved in the manufacturing and sales of all terrain vehicles, some under a license with Suzuki.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU environment ministers have backed the European Parliament in rejecting an ‘averaging and banking’ system within a proposed directive limiting emissions from outdoors mobile equipment, such as lawnmowers, which would have allowed manufacturers to sell dirty machines, if they made improvements to other models.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE TERRORIST attacks in the USA have increased the urgency felt in Brussels to decrease the dependency of the European Union for its energy needs on Middle East oil, with EU research Commissioner Philippe Busquin saying that studies into renewable energy sources should have greater priority as a result.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW international fishing deals are being developed by the European Union, which should allow fishing businesses to exploit grounds overseas while efforts are made to conserve stocking levels in Europe’s own territorial waters.

EU ministers have been asked to approve a deal negotiated by the European Commission with west Africa’s Guinea-Bissau, which will last until 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Union countries will have to ensure that at least two per cent of their transport fuel supplies are in the form of bio-fuels – made from sugar beet, cereals, maize and rape-seed – by 2005, under a European Commission directive to be proposed very shortly, said Franz Fischler, agriculture Commissioner.…