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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUTOMAKERS across the European Union (EU) will from next April have to issue comprehensive and detailed certificates of conformity with each new vehicles illustrating compliance with EU technical standards.

These are not simple declarations. There are three models of certificate: one for completed vehicles made by one manufacturer; another for completed vehicles made by more than one automaker – say the chassis made by one and the rest by another; and a third certificate for each of these elements as they are passed to a second manufacturer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DOCUMENTS released by European Union (EU) heads of government detailing their approval of a Euro 3.9 billion in EU spending on energy investment projects includes a commitment to spend Euro 200 million on the Nabucco gas pipeline within Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and Romania.…

BY MARK ROWE

EVEN with the technological advances of recent years, fog and other poor weather conditions can still snarl up civil air traffic. But researchers from a project backed by the European Commission claim to be on the verge of commercialising a new traffic control system that will speed up airport movements in bad visibility.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN and MONICA DOBIE

MAYBE the best sign that renewable energies have hit the mainstream is that they now have their very own international organisation: the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Launched in Bonn, Germany, this January, with the support of 76 countries, including its host nation, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, the roster of signatory nations has since been swollen by India and Belarus.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH tyre industry is pushing for a planned European tyre labelling system to be amended so that useful point-of-sale information about safety and noise is made available in showrooms. The problem with the current proposals approved by the European Parliament last week (22-04) is it focuses on labelling, said John Dorken, the chief executive of the British Tyre Manufacturers Association.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MONEY left unspent from a temporary restructuring fund for the European Union sugar sector after its fourth and final year of operation (financial year 2009-10) will be transferred to future EU budgets, earmarked for sugar-related investments, the European Commission has confirmed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY has proposed a draft national law promoting carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which would see liability for CO2 leaks transferred to the German government after a facility had been in place for 80 years. The law includes detailed standards on operating CCS systems and should complement European Union legislation on this issue.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE DEBATE over alternative sources of energy for aviation has not been confined to aircraft. The issue has airport managers pondering how such fuels would be used on the ground and at the same to seek to reduce the carbon footprints of their own ‘mini-cities’.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

WITH the auto industry in the United States and Europe in the midst of an unprecedented downturn, the international paints and coatings sector has taken a deep hit as well and has been forced to turn to painful strategies in the hopes of riding out the recession.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY’S DHL has become the first global logistics company to join the UN Environment Programme’s Climate Neutral Network, which promotes green transport. DHL operates a ‘GOGREEN’ system that assesses carbon emissions created by a customer’s shipment and suggests certified offsets.…