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THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has announced that it will lend Euro 150 million loan to Nueva Generadora del Sur SA for constructing a combined-cycle power plant in Cádiz province, Spain.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering its legal options, after the dismissal of its case brought in New York against Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, alleging that they had helped promote tobacco smuggling within the EU.

U.S. District Judge Nicholas G.…

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A MAJOR European Union research study has concluded that the ‘true’ price of using coal and oil to generate electricity is double that usually assumed by standard accounting systems, when the costs of cleaning up the resulting pollution and dealing with the resulting health problems are taken into account.…

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THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has decided to expand its list of chemicals formally labelled as hazardous wastes, by including waste containing dangerous chlorophylls and dangerous silicon. These will now be subject to tight controls on their disposal.…

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THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has announced that it is lending US$80 million to Philips Semiconductors Philippines Inc., (PSPI), a subsidiary of the Dutch electronics giant Philips, which will guarantee the loan. The money will help the Asian operation construct a second integrated circuits assembly and test facility in Calamba, Philippines.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission’s deadline of evaluating by July 2003 the safety of the 800-plus active substances used in EU pesticides will be missed, with Brussels asking ministers and MEPs to extend the completion date to 2008.

Health and consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne has admitted that when the EU agreed Directive 91/414 on the authorisation, use and control of plant protection products – insecticides, fungicides, herbicides etc.…

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NASA and the European Space Agency, (ESA), have adapted their plans for the joint Cassini-Huygens mission, that is supposed to relay scientific data from the Saturn moon Titan. Scientists have had to adapt the path of the Cassini orbiter, and will make several modifications to the Huygens probe – due to enter Titan’s atmosphere in January 2005 – to ensure the maximum efficiency of its communications system.…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the creation of a joint venture called SuperH, involving Hitachi Ltd., of Japan, and Dutch firm ST Microelectronics N.V.; it will consolidate, in a stand-alone company, the two companies’ existing co-operation in the development of microprocessor cores.…

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THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has drawn up plans to lend US $5 million to Bulgarian gold and copper mine Navan Chelopech A.D., to improve productivity and efficiency, “by bringing the mine up to international operating and environmental standards.”…

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that the EU Council of Ministers imposes definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain iron or steel ropes and cables from the Czech Republic, (47.1 per cent), Russia, (50.7 per cent), Thailand, (42.8 per cent), and Turkey, (31 per cent).…