Search Results for: France

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

"REFINERY Process Outsourcing" or simply RPO is an exciting buzzword in the otherwise hard-pressed Indian petroleum industry, as the term represents newly found and highly profitable venture of operating refineries to fulfil surging international demand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened legal action against Denmark, France, Portugal and Sweden for failing to install continuous safety controls required by a European Union (EU) directive on ‘the control of high-activity sealed radioactive sources and orphan sources’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH fishermen have been allocated one of the smaller national envelopes of money from the incoming European Fisheries Fund (EFF), whose money has now been split amongst European Union (EU) member states by the European Commission. Out of the Euro 3.8 billion available from 2007 to 2013, only Euro 122 million has been allocated to the UK.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

FUEL reprocessing, inspection schedules, civilian/military separation and unilateral moratoriums versus bilateral commitments: the list of hurdles potentially hindering the Indo-American civilian nuclear cooperation deal, pending ratification by the United States Congress, is long. Varying interpretations and last minute amendments in the deal have shaken the Indian nuclear establishment and polarised political parties, problems that could derail the whole process.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

AN ethanol-powered vehicle was driven 2,885 kilometres (1,792 miles) on one litre (just over a quarter gallon) of fuel in southern France this summer, sparking off renewed interest in ethanol as an alternative to gasoline in Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission has drastically watered down a European Union (EU) alcohol abuse action plan, which health campaigners fear was in response to a powerful lobbying campaign earlier this year by the drinks industry. Earlier drafts from Brussels indicated that producers would have been forced to print health warnings on labels and restrict or censor advertising.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FISHING access deal allowing European Union (EU) fishermen to exploit Guinea-Bissau’s Atlantic fish stocks until June next year has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. The agreement was negotiated to run from this June, and includes fishing rights for:

*Shrimps: Italy boats of up to 1,776 gross registered tonnes (GRT), Spain to 1,421 GRT, Portugal 1,066 GRT, and Greece 137 GRT;

*Finfish and cephalopods: Spain 3,143 GRT, Italy 786 GRT, and Greece 471 GRT;

*Tuna seiners: Spain 20, France 19, and Italy 1; and

*Surface longliners and pole-and-line vessels: Spain 21, France 5, and Portugal 4.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) funded research project has developed a system for integrating tiny stainless-steel wires within fabrics, which are designed to ferry information about the wearer’s vital signs to electronic monitors. The aim of the Euro 4 million WEALTHY project has been to create a "groundbreaking woven sensing interface to be worn without any discomfort" that can be plugged into monitors at home or work, downloading important medical data to doctors at remote locations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission audits into failures of European Union (EU) member states to recover agricultural subsidies paid after faulty applications involving financial irregularities or outright fraud have sparked charges of Euro 317.3 million from Brussels. It is penalising national governments for what it regards as "negligence" in pursuing guilty aid claimants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the cattle and sheep disease Bluetongue spreading north in Europe from its usual southern European base, the European Commission and other specialist agencies are investigating why the pathogen has marched northwards. The European Union’s (EU) reference laboratory, at Pirbright, Surrey, has confirmed this strain of Bluetongue hitting livestock in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, was previously unknown in Europe.…