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BY KEITH NUTHALL

European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolo? has increased a proposed EU aid package for vegetable producers harmed by Germany’s e-coli outbreak to Euro EUR210 million – up from a EUR150 million rejected yesterday by EU ministers. He announced in Brussels this afternoon the Commission would raise the amount of compensation to 50% of the average selling price between 2007-2010 – up from an earlier 30% proposal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE BIGGEST change in liquid cargo shipping practices in recent years has been the growth in the use of flexitanks where commodities are carried in plastic sacks inserted into standard 20ft International Organization for Standardization (ISO) metal containers.…

BY JOHN PAGNI

FINLAND is bucking the post-Fukushima trend of abandoning nuclear power, pushing ahead with its reactor construction programme.

The cost of building Olkiluoto 3, the 1,600MW European pressurised water reactor nuclear power plant is currently Euro EUR3.2 billion. Although four years behind schedule, project supporters remain positive: "Once we were told it would be delayed, the timetable didn’t matter.…

BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

CENTRAL Asia is often in the news regarding political instability, and the complexity of the region’s borders and ethnicities make for an opacity that can encourage the growth of organised crime. Also, being far from the centres of anti-money laundering activities and standard setting – in Europe, north America and east Asia, the region’s often authoritarian governments have a poor reputation regarding the enforcement of law and judicial probity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COMPANIES and research institutes developing hydrogen fuel cells in the European Union (EU) have been put on notice by the European Commission – put serious money into fuel cell and hydrogen research, or a marquee EU-funded research project may close.…

By John Pagni in Helsinki

The Areva/Siemens project to supply Finland’s TVO with the world’s first third generation EPR (European Pressurised water Reactor) at Olkiluoto on the Finnish west coast has suffered a number of problems but these have not shaken the faith of those concerned in the essential viability of the design.…

BY DAVE YIN

EUROPE: European Research Council requests doubled annual budget

Dave Yin

The European Research Council (ERC) made a public appeal last week for a doubling of its annual budget to around Euro EUR4 billion (US dollar USD5.75 billion) starting in 2013.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is trying to create consensus over scientific principles affecting complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM), sufficiently robust to inspire EU regulation. The CAMbrella project involves academics from Germany, Britain, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Romania, Spain, France, Denmark, Austria and Sweden, ending December 2012.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

AS one of the final stages in the converting process, it is important that the coating and laminating of raw materials goes off without a hitch to produce the best possible end product for paper, plastic and textile packagers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH the plethora of private organic, environmental and sustainability certifications hitting the personal care products market, retailers and consumers could be forgiven for being confused about which system is the most reliable.

It could perhaps be time to go back to basics and rely on internationally accepted standards such as those set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) – which uses American spellings for its name, by the way.…