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BY MONICA DOBIE

THE PRICE of tobacco products in Britain is the highest in the European Union (EU) claims EU statistics agency, Eurostat. In 2006, British tobacco goods were priced at 205% of the EU average with only non-EU member, Norway out-pricing it at 227% within the European Economic Area.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY ERIC LYMAN, in Rome

ITALY is Europe’s top producer of clams, and in most years the country consumes more of these small molluscs than any other European country, and what’s mire – local consumption has been increasing dramatically.

In 2005 (the latest statistics available), Italy produced about 85,000 metric tonnes of the three major clam species in the country (grooved carpet shell clams, or Ruditapes decussates; Japanese carpet shell clams, or Ruditapes philippinarum; and striped Venus clams, or Chamelea gallina or Venus gallina).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

IT is self-evident that the printing industry is all about ink. And many inks are made with artificial chemicals. As a result, the sector and its ink suppliers have to take care they comply with the European Union’s (EU) new chemical control system REACH, which formally came into force on June 1.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IT has taken the UK government so long to implement the European Union’s (EU) ‘waste electrical and electronic’ (WEEE) directive that plastics manufacturers are facing a review of the law in Brussels, before the ink on the British implementing legislation is dry.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR international study has detected a direct link between cleaning products delivered through aerosols and asthma or other respiratory problems in adults. Spain’s Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology and Municipal Institute of Medical Research coordinated research institutes in Britain, Germany, Holland, Italy, Sweden and Canada to assess 3,503 men and women aged of 20-44 with no previous asthma problems who were told to use cleaning product aerosols regularly.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris

GLOBAL coordination and greater investment is needed if the cars of the future are to run on hydrogen, claimed delegates at a conference in Paris this week. Elevated costs, refuelling networks and production means are all problems that must be tackled, but more basic lacunae should be filled immediately if hydrogen is to fulfil its potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security for the transport sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has admitted that support for a comprehensive unbundling of EU energy suppliers and producers is weak within the EU Council of Ministers, signalling that he may have to water down tough draft proposals.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance of the European Communities has rejected a bid by German cosmetics manufacturer Grether to prevent the EU-wide registration of the ‘FENNEL’ trademark by Thailand’s Crisgo for compact powder, lipstick, eye-shadow, eye-liner, blusher, nail polish and mascara’.…