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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST formal call for proposals under the European Union’s Euro 16.2 billion Sixth Framework Programme for research have been issued; they include a Euro 167 million budget for studies into food quality and safety. *Full details:

http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=16…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is planning to lend Euro 52.5 million in Polish Zloty to Poland’s El-Viv Telecom Sp. z o.o., to provide acquisition finance to its planned new owners, a consortium of private equity investors including Hicks Muse Tate and Furst, Emerging Markets Partnership (Europe) and Argus Capital Partners.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ITALY has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to cease allowing its museums and other cultural sites to discriminate against foreign European Union nationals over admission charges for its museums and other cultural sites. The European Commission said that in following up complaints from the public it had concluded that “the scheme of preferential rates applicable to persons aged over 60 or 65 years for admission to various Italian museums did indeed entail discrimination.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT on legislation lowering the maximum level of sulphur content in European Union (EU) diesel and petrol to 10 ppm has been struck by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. They agreed these low sulphur fuels must be available throughout the EU from January 1, 2005, and mandatory from January 1, 2009.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ONGOING review of the European Union’s (EU) common market organisation in tobacco is to be a priority of the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors in the coming year. The job was highlighted in the key agricultural policy section of the court’s 2003 work programme.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered a significant reduction in the use of canthaxanthin, a feed additive, which reddens the colour of salmon and makes egg yolks yellower. Brussels said a link had been found between high canthaxanthin intake and eyesight problems.…

BY MARK ROWE
SENIOR Gazprom executives will meet EU officials next month (Feb) to discuss the Russian company’s US$5.7 billion project to build a pipeline to Britain under the Baltic Sea. The North European Gas Pipeline, due to open in 2007, should carry 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Britain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by northern Spain’s Principality of Asturias regional government of Euro 3 million to local private coal mining companies. The money will improve working safety in mines, (via research and development and worker training), and protect the environment, (through waste management and pollution clean-ups).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved plans to lend US$3 million to the Armenian Copper Programme to help it increase its production of copper, build up reserves of raw materials and spend more on environmental-protection.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FLOODS in central Europe last August and September took a tragic toll of lives, disrupted local economies and devastated numerous museums with the irretrievable loss of cultural artefacts. In Dresden, the worst hit city, thousands of artworks had to be moved when both the Zwinger Palace, site of one of Europe’s great art museums, and the Albertinum Museum became victims of rising floodwater.…