Search Results for: France

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

IN the airport industry, starting from scratch is sometimes the best solution. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad is a case in point. It displays the range of objectives that can be achieved in terms of efficiency and scope in a greenfield project over and above expanding an existing airport.…

By Katherine Dunn

The travails of Roman Polanski in Switzerland this autumn have offered some lessons to the world’s wanted over extradition laws and how to deal with them. The Polish director has of course been living in France, with little fear of extradition, since 1978, when he fled the USA facing statutory rape charges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEGOTIATORS are close to forging an international agreement that would ban vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing from ports worldwide. The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has been hosting the talks, and has reported the "general outlines… on ‘port state’ measures that would deny vessels engaged in IUU fishing access to fishing ports are largely in place."…

By Alan Osborn

The failure of business to invest significantly in innovation projects remains the major weakness in the European Union’s (EU) research picture, says the European Commission. While there is "substantial progress" in some aspects of the EU’s innovation performance, investments by business in R&D and IT projects "are still relatively weak, especially if compared to the US and Japan," claims Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EXTRAORDINARY European Union (EU) Council of Ministers energy meeting has agreed medium and long-term measures to prevent a recurrence of a future gas supply crisis resembling this month’s row between Russia and the Ukraine. Ministers said the EU would fund improved metering, promote administrative transparency in gas supply systems feeding into member states’ networks, improved gas interconnection infrastructure and creating a better early warning system.…

BY MARK GODFREY

A GAP in service between foreign-invested and domestically owned fuel retailers in China appears to have widened as multinational firms roll out convenience stores on their forecourts. Motorists using stores opened by France’s Total in its joint ventures with China chemical company Sinochem can avail themselves of food refreshments, toiletries and bathroom facilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) judges have erected a barrier impeding the plans of US brewer Anheuser-Busch to trademark the word ‘Bud’ across in all EU member states. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Court of First Instance has underlined the right of Anheuser’s Czech rival Bud?jovický…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FRENCH government has been fined Euro 10 million by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement European Union (EU) legislation allowing the circulation of screened genetically modified food in its territory.

Judges agreed with the European Commission that Paris should be punished for failing to enact a 2002 directive on the release of GM organisms until 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been advised to push for an increase in the maximum size and weight of lorries allowed across the European Union (EU) – maybe to 60 tonnes and 25.25 metres – by a report that will kick off an official review of these rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 100,000 European food Safety Authority (EFSA) grant has been awarded to a consortium of European Union (EU) science consortia to investigate the impact of the so-called bee ‘colony collapse disorder’ on honey production.

Since 2003, there have been reports of serious losses of bees from beehives in Europe, with the cause being unknown, although possible factors include starvation, viruses, mites, pesticide exposure and climate change.…