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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to redraft its controversial proposals on nuclear safety, radioactive waste and Euratom spending, after accepting that a blocking minority opposed to the plans exists at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers. The move will – claim opponents – buy the Commission time, allowing it to release fresh proposals as the incoming 10 new member countries join the EU in May, many from eastern Europe, with nuclear power plants.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ABUSE of drugs and alcohol in the workplace may be a growing concern in European Union (EU) countries but there seems little evidence that the relevant authorities are unduly alarmed by it. An informal survey by Occupational Health of organisations and government departments suggests that little attempt has been made so far to assess the scale of the problem, still less to devise legislation aimed at workers, as distinct from society in general.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS has restricted to 22,000 the number of working migrants it will accept from the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the European Union (EU) this May. The announcement is the latest in a string of such caps imposed by existing EU Member States, (made by Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Spain), ahead of the expansion of the union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
1. THE stage has been set for one of the fiercest internal EU legal battles in recent years following a decision by the European Commission to take the Union’s member states to court over their refusal to punish France and Germany for breaching the euro zone rules last November.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said it will move to its new permanent home in Parma, Italy, by 2005 at the latest, following the long-awaited decision on its headquarters’ location being made by European Union (EU) heads of government in December.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to spend Euro 29.25 million on schemes promoting the consumption of fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy products in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PEOPLE who drink hard water have a decreased risk of having a heart attack according to researchers led by the Geological Survey of Finland. They studied hospital records by geographical location and found that for every unit increase in the hardness of local water in Finland, the risk of having a heart attack fell by 1 per cent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEIZURES of counterfeit pharmaceuticals by customs officers of the 15 EU countries rose “significantly” in 2002 and the trend has continued so far this year, the European Commission has reported. Pharmaceuticals are not identified separately in statistics on pirated goods, but form the largest part of the “other goods” category where seizures have risen from 42 million in 2001 to 59 million in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat has released comparative figures showing that Britain may have a significant problem regarding the number of workers reporting a long-standing health problem or disability. Indeed proportionally more Britons of working age told researchers they suffered such difficulties than in any other EU country barring Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INERT mining residues should be regarded as waste under European Union (EU) and national laws controlling their disposal, unless they are immediately reused, for instance by filling disused mine shafts, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It was making an advisory judgement in a Finnish case involving mining company AvestaPolarit Chrome Oy, which wants to dispose of underground waste from a chromium mine by crushing, dressing and fine-dressing.…