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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN is the only country in the European Union that is not on course to meet its targets on the reduction of greenhouse gases, according to a report from the European Environment Agency.

The UK’s emissions of greenhouse gases rose by 0.4 per cent in 1999-2000, mainly due to an expansion in power generation from fossil fuels, especially coal.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE IRISH parliament, the Dail, has recently passed legislation giving ministers to the power to ban the advertising or display of tobacco products in shops. Ireland is the first state within the EU to agree such a regulation, a move which may encourage similar policies in other Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is spending Euro 20 million on research projects designed to unveil the real effects of endocrine disrupters on human health and the environment. Grants will be paid to 22 research teams from 10 European countries which will explore the effect of exposure from low doses and mixtures of disrupters on human beings, aquatic wildlife and laboratory animals, among other topics.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE EUROPEAN Union has given itself until the end of this month (May) to make a crunch decision over whether to further subsidise the future insurance of the continent’s airlines in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, in New York last September.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN a further sign of recovery from the fraught conditions of 2001, the Association of European Airlines has reported that air traffic in the European market rose by 2.8 per cent in the week to May 12th. This marked only the third weekly gain since the sharp fall in civil aviation which followed the political and military turbulence of last year.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A GROUNDBREAKING and comprehensive resolution on tourism passed by the EU Council of Ministers last week, which contained a wide range of policy goals and plans for action, has been given a lukewarm welcome by the European travel industry.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union Commissioner for competition policy, Mario Monti, has

stated his willingness to consider a postponement of the key location

clauses of the proposed reform of the block exemption system for new car

sales, with implementation being delayed beyond 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN football association UEFA launched a joint-anti smoking campaign with the European Commission on the eve of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The two organisations booked television advertising space to broadcast their anti-tobacco message, using international footballers including French star Zinedine Zidane and Portugal’s Luis Figo.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY on the environmental performance of Estonia’s two main electricity generators has concluded that significant investment will be required to enable them to attain the European Union standards that they must achieve when the Baltic country becomes a EU Member State.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE SALE of fallen energy giant Enron’s Wind Turbine Business to GE Power Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the General Electric Company, has been approved by the European Commission, following a competition inquiry. Brussels concluded that the deal would not pose any threat to choice within the European power sector.…