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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a threshold of 1mSv/Hh to be inserted in to a proposed European directive on controlling high activity sealed radioactive sources, to clarify when the legislation should be followed. MEPs also passed non-binding amendments to highlight suppliers’ responsibilities and that all potential cross-border movements within, to and from the EU should be monitored.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NO solution has yet been reached to the problem over the freezing of half the European Food Safety Authority’s budget for 2003 by the European Parliament. The new EFSA executive director Geoffrey Podger told journalists in January this was worrying but “several things have to be done at once and it’s a mistake to concentrate on one.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$20 million to OAO Concern Kalina, the leading producer of cosmetics and personal care products in Russia and the former Soviet Union, to finance its acquisition of smaller Russian competitors, as well as make new capital investments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is organising a pilot training programme designed to equip European 250 professionals this year with crisis management skills enabling them to bring order to regions that have been wracked by warfare or civil strife. The courses are being run at the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Stadtschlaining, and will involve judges, prosecutors, human rights observers, local administrators, social workers, teachers and infrastructure experts.…

BY MARK ROWE
IF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.

Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has disbanded its Directorate General for Financial Control, as part of its root-and-branch reform of its accounting controls, aimed at wrestling with reports claiming that European Union institutions continue to be riddled with fraud. The EU anti fraud office OLAF said in its latest report that 552 new cases were opened from last May to this June, with its caseload increasing by 30 per cent compared to the two first years of its existence, for instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a European Union (EU) ban of the plant protection product ingredient Aldicarb, which has been shown to be potentially lethal to small birds and possibly damaging to earthworms. It has asked ministers to approve a prohibition on the sale of pesticides containing Aldicarb within six months of a decision and an immediate block on any future approvals of other plant protection lines containing this chemical.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) has announced that the European Union marketing authorisation for hepatitis B treatment HEPACARE has been withdrawn by the European Commission. The decision followed manufacturer Celltech Pharmaceuticals Ltd’s commercial decision to abandon plans to sell the medicine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to persuade the European Union Council of Ministers to slap an import ban on poultry, poultry meat and eggs imports from California, where there is an outbreak of Newcastle Disease, while accepting these products from other parts of the United States.…