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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has unveiled further data underlining the risk to human health posed by widespread contamination of broiler chicken flocks across Europe with the pathogen salmonella. In its latest figures, which back earlier alarming data about salmonella contamination within egg production systems, EFSA said that in 2005-6, almost a quarter – 23.7% – of EU broiler (meat) flocks were contaminated with salmonella.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot has sufficiently worried the EU Council of Ministers about the shaky future of EU global positioning satellite network Galileo that ministers have requested a long-term financing plan. This will be written by the European Commission while concession negotiations continue between the bidding consortium and Galileo’s GNSS Supervisory Authority over the division of work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved state aid funding by the Bavarian government of two German regional airports. It has accepted Euro 7.3 million in subsidies paid to develop the former Allgäu military airbase into a civil airport, near Memmingen, and also the payment of Euro 8.85 million to redevelop Augsburg airport, in the Schwabia region, notably extending its short runway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded scientists, coordinated by Germany’s GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, have launched drilling work to inject 60,000 tonnes of CO2 into a saline aquifer more than 700 metres underground near Ketzin, west of Berlin, then monitor how the gas behaves over two years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN scientists have started drilling a test site to examine whether carbon dioxide can be injected underground without leaching to the surface, by dissolving into groundwater or other means. CO2 sequestration is something of a Holy Grail for energy companies seeking to prevent this greenhouse gas collecting in the atmosphere.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is being pushed by 13 of its 27 member states for postponement of a rule that says for beef cattle to be labelled organic, they must not be tethered. Under the existing regulation EEC/2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products, organic labelled beef must be from untethered cattle from 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN tobacco company Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken has won a long-running European Court of Justice (ECJ) bid to recover VAT paid after being invoiced in error by an Italian advertising agency, establishing an important legal principle in the process. Reemtsma had in 1994 handed over Italian Lira 175,022,025 (Euro 90,391), but subsequently discovered the services should have been invoiced without any demand for VAT.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) health Commissioner is pressing EU member states to take more action against tuberculosis, which while still rare in Europe, is reasserting itself worldwide amidst special concern about treatment resistant strains. Markos Kyprianou said: “Though the overall prevalence of TB in the EU is among the lowest in the world, TB among vulnerable populations in the EU has increased.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to add water management and climate change concerns to the environment in general as a prior consideration for the development of European Union (EU) policies on farming, transport and industrial expansion. Brussels officials are drafting a green paper on the idea, open for consultation from this summer, with current EU president Germany pushing the idea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dropped legal action against Germany’s deposit and return scheme for drinks packaging, concluding reforms stopped it being an illegal restriction of trade within the European Union (EU). The German government had initially said retailers should only accept returned bottles and cans of the exact type, shape and size in stock, while Euro 0.25 deposits were charged regardless.…