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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the disruption caused by the BSE and Foot and Mouth crises to the smooth operation of the EU bovine leather market, the epidemics may actually help the industry prosper in the future, a new European Commission study has claimed.…

KEITH NUTHALL
FROM the beginning of next year exporters of medicinal products will find it easier to sell in Japan following completion of a Mutual Recognition Agreement between that country and the EU.

The deal includes a Good Manufacturing Practice agreement under which both sides will agree to honour each other’s testing, certification and approval of products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has been making a lot of speeches recently. It is not because he has time on his hands, he is in charge of the European Commission’s largest two budgets, agriculture and fisheries after all. Rather it is because he is cross with the Americans, whom he accuses of playing Janus at the WTO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSULTANTS report written for the European Commission by Pricewaterhouse Coopers has claimed that the EU’s GALILEO satellite navigation project is not only positive in cost-benefit terms, but should show an operational profit from 2011 onwards.

The assessment comes after the European Parliament threw doubt on the financing of the scheme, which the Commission hopes will attract more than Euro 2 billion private sector investment.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has widened health research under the oncoming EU Sixth Framework Programme to include studies on traditional diseases, widening European Commission plans to limiting its life science work to genomics and biotechnology. By contrast, the parliament wants money spent on cancer, cardiovascular diseases, degenerative nervous system illnesses, (including CJD), diabetes, viral hepatitis C, allergies, rare diseases and ageing conditions.…

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
ENVIRONMENTAL mainstreaming was the Brussels buzzword of the year 2000, it entailed the routine integration of green concerns into other EU policy areas. European ministers backed the concept and also accepted detailed papers explaining how this was to be brought about.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LATEST report of the European Court of Auditors on annual spending by the European Union is depressingly familiar. It says the figures do not warrant official approval. It puts a questionmark over some Pounds 2.5 billion out of the pounds 50 billion spent by the EU in 2000, with most of the suspect figures again in the farm sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has widened health research under the oncoming EU Sixth Framework Programme to include studies on traditional diseases, widening European Commission plans to limiting its life science work to genomics and biotechnology. By contrast, the parliament wants money spent on cancer, cardiovascular diseases, degenerative nervous system illnesses, (including CJD), diabetes, viral hepatitis C, allergies, rare diseases and ageing conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers for the environment has given political agreement to the creation of official guidelines for Member States on Integrated Coastal Zone Management. It means that EU governments will have to develop strategies coordinating national, regional and local regulations and initiatives fighting the pollution of coasts, covering beaches and cliffs as well as the sea.…