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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-research project aimed at coating plastics and other materials with metallic or ceramic films has proved a big success, with a consortium coating plastic mobile phones to block electromagnetic waves. These have long been a health concern for phone users, but prior to the REOXCOAT project, the use of the required so-called ‘sputtering’ technique to create such coatings was limited to small component areas.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

There were about 41,600 road deaths in the 25 EU countries in 2005, down from around 50,000 in 2001 reports the European Commission. This is progress "but not enough" says Brussels which wants member states to halve the rate to 25,000 by 2010 under the EU’s Road Safety Action Programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce survey has concluded that most developed countries are responding to high oil process by improving energy efficiency. Especially good performers included Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium. The US had also made progress "to a lesser degree".…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has ordered its committees of national officials to stage a "thorough examination" of the official EU definition of vodka, because of a row between member states over its terms. Poland, supported by Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden, is resisting a European Commission proposal to allow vodka to continue being sold in the EU using non-traditional ingredients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Commission conference designed to ease the damage caused by bankruptcy has heard how most European Union (EU) countries are already reforming their insolvency laws. Speaking at a Commission conference on ‘Insolvency and Fresh Start’ in Brussels, 120 legal experts from 24 countries were told last year 140,000 corporate insolvencies in the old 15-member EU, risked 1.5 million jobs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Finland’s road tax laws for preventing Finnish resident frontier workers, with a job in another European Union (EU) member state, from bringing their car home from their workplace. The ECJ has declared Finland "in breach of its EU treaty obligations on the freedom of movement of workers" by insisting Finland residents obtain Finnish car tax for their vehicles, even those generally used for work abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW EFSA BOSS BUDGET ROW – LATEST ADVICE

THE FRENCHWOMAN appointed to take the vacant top executive director job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will need all her political skills to solve a potential budget crisis facing the agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

POLAND, supported by Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden are resisting a European Commission proposal to allow vodka drinks to be sold in the European Union, even if some ingredients are non-traditional. Poland and its allies want vodka-labelled drinks to be based only on cereals and potatoes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

POLAND, supported by Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden are resisting a European Commission proposal to allow vodka to be sold in the European Union (EU) using non-traditional ingredients. Poland and its allies want vodka-labelled drinks to be based only on cereals and potatoes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has developed a number of novel enzymes that can boost food texture and quality, with its participants claiming they can even make low-fat yoghurts seem rich and creamy. CROSSENZ project members are now investigating bringing these biotechnological developments to market.…