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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on food safety experts to bid for contracts worth Euro 39 million to stage studies funded by the EU’s outgoing Fifth Framework Programme for research. Brussels says it will fund work on detection tests for infectious and toxic agents in the food chain and on ways to eliminate them.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE POSSIBILITY of a major increase in shipping between the European Union and Iran is being furthered by preparations to strike a trade and co-operation agreement between the two sides. Following preliminary discussions with Iranian diplomats, the European Commission has drawn up negotiating directives for such talks, which are expected to be approved by ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHTS of cosmetic and perfume retailers to sell re-exported products cheaply on the grey parallel market – against the wish of a manufacturer – have been weakened by a surprise European Court of Justice ruling.

It has acted unusually by ignoring a preliminary legal opinion by an ECJ Advocate General, who said that the right of a trademark holder to “control the initial distribution of goods within the European Economic Area,” (the EU, plus Norway and Iceland), was limited when they had been released to a third country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EASTERN Europe’s vast district heating systems could be converted from dirty solid fuels to cleaner oil and gas in future, because of a Euro 100 million investment in the region’s energy efficiency by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AIR traffic management in Europe is related to a number of accepted truths, of which two stand out as self-evident. First: economic growth means rising demand for air travel, especially at a time when the European Union is both increasing its size and developing its internal market, and, conversely, constraints on air travel mean constraints on economic growth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURELECTRIC has welcomed the latest European Commission guidelines that encourage public utilities, as well as local and national public authorities, to use EU public procurement procedures to promote worthy – in this case social – policy goals.

The publication of advice follows a similar move by Brussels in the summer regarding the purchase by so-called public entities of environmentally friendly goods and services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH experts have been discussing a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), which has shown Britain performs poorly against its competitors in western Europe and north America, regarding the number of nurses employed per head of population in the late 1990’s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union should be given an explicit authority to help formulate and shape its Member States energy policies, the European Parliament’s industry committee has said. Responding, to the European Commission’s green paper on energy supply, the committee has called for energy to be made a key priority of the EU, by including a chapter on the subject in the next revision of the EU treaties.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
PERHAPS the greatest dilemma facing air transport in the new millennium is the need to balance the demand for airspace from passenger and cargo carriers, with the expectation of ever-improving safety in our skies.

Through its Safety Regulation Commission (SRC), Eurocontrol coordinates efforts to achieve consistent high levels of safety in air traffic management within the European Civil Aviation Conference, (ECAC), area.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union should be given an explicit authority to help formulate and shape its Member States energy policies, notably by promoting co-generation and renewables, the European Parliament’s industry committee has said.

Responding, to the European Commission’s green paper on energy supply, the committee has called for energy to be made a key priority of the EU, by including a chapter on the subject in the next revision of the EU treaties.…