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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXISTING European Union countries could share Euro 6.5 billion savings in reduced environmental costs once eastern European countries have become Member States and have adopted EU directives, a Brussels report has claimed. It said that resulting reductions in trans-boundary air pollution would benefit current EU Member States and other neighbouring countries to this great extent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AN UPDATED list of sensitive “dual-use” products and technologies published by the European Commission will allow some exporters a little more marketing freedom than in the past, despite the recent heightened concern about terrorism.

The revised list of items that are considered to be dangerous in the wrong hands allows for higher thresholds in a number of areas and this will permit some exporters, notably of computers, to increase sales without having to seek prior permission from Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency, (ESA), is to cooperate with the European Union on launching a new satellite communications system, GMES, (global monitoring for environment and security), where observation satellites will work alongside ground level sensors to collect, analyse and disseminate data.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve the transfer of Euro 60 million from the general EU 2001 budget, (most of which is currently earmarked for fishery support), to help finance the UN’s Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has proposed the creation of a European Platform for Clinical Tests, a body whose aim would be to intensify and fast-track studies within the EU on AIDS/HIV, TB and malaria. He said that the platform would be a “cornerstone” of the Commission’s strategy against the diseases, especially where it is considering the needs of developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve the transfer of Euro 60 million from the general EU 2001 budget, (most of which is currently earmarked for fishery support), to help finance the UN’s Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.…

BY MARK ROWE and BEATA PLONKA
THE CENTRAL European Air Traffic Services (CEATS) project, first tentatively suggested back in the early 1990s, is intended to radically redraw the aviation map of the region. The project aims to provide a significant boost to the airspace capacity of what many commentators call eastern Europe and address the main challenges facing aviation in the 21st century; safety, delays and rising volumes of traffic.…

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
CYNICS may look at the hastening political process of allowing eastern European countries, and their large agricultural sectors, into the European Union, and ask, ‘what’s in it for us?’

It’s a good question given that the 10 countries that are at the front of the membership queue, (with the tiny exceptions of Malta and Cyprus), are hardly wealthy.…