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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation announced that 40 countries and the European Union signed the new global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control within a week of it being agreed. Signatories included Britain, Spain, Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many solvents – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Austria and Finland to the European Court of Justice for failing to adopt an older (and looser) directive on GM food. This includes rules on post-marketing monitoring, public information, plus labelling and traceability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SIGNIFICANT problems have been detected by a European Commission study into the implementation of the European Union’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive in seven EU Member States, with Britain being the only country so far found complying.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN countries dominate a list of states most dependent on nuclear power, according to figures released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Lithuania is the country consuming most nuclear power, with 80 per cent of its energy supplies coming from nuclear reactors, with France second at 78 per cent and Slovakia third at 65.4 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN countries dominate a list of states most dependent on nuclear power, according to figures released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Lithuania is the country consuming most nuclear power, with 80 per cent of its energy supplies coming from nuclear reactors, with France second at 78 per cent and Slovakia third at 65.4 per cent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FRANCE has been order to pay back Euro 23.15 million of EU expenditure on

wine, which the European Commission says has been “misspent.” An Brussels wine

spokesman said France had granted aid for “ineligible rectified concentrated must prepared from grape must produced in the Charentes region” which had been used to enrich certain wine products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHAT a complex and mysterious thing wheat is! Scientists tell us that modern wheat is a hexaploid, which means that the long-distant ancestors of wheat “hybridised in a way that combined three copies of the original genome to produce a genome with over 150,000 genes.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CRUCIAL negotiations to reform the EU’s common agricultural policy will resume next Wednesday after France effectively vetoed a compromise deal on Thursday night following nearly a week of talks. Britain and five other Member States had approved the deal which involved a scaling down of original European Commission plans to “decouple” payments to farmers from production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to meet their Kyoto commitments.…