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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission will take Austria, Finland, Italy, Germany and Luxembourg to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement a 2002 directive on aircraft noise. It mandates specific procedures regarding the introduction of noise restrictions at EU airports near urban areas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LAST people most farmers would like controlling European agricultural policy are glib public relations experts, armed with palm-top digital personal organisers and a sheaf of focus group studies. Such complaints have often been levelled at the Blair government, accused of bending with the wind of public opinion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL governments are often jealous of attempts by the European Union (EU) to increase its power into policy areas that they consider none of its business. Defence and foreign affairs are obvious examples, but health is another. EU member states have long resisted Brussels’ calls for influence over their health policies, but their resolve has weakened of late.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is hailing the success of a European Union (EU)-funded research project that has created new technology allowing small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) plants to run on biomass fuels. Applicable for the power range of 200 – 1,000 kWel, its key innovation is using a screw-type steam engine.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is largely on track for a timely start to its emissions trading system on January 1, with the unconditional approval in late October of six more CO2 emission allocation plans, from Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Portugal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IS there a role for the insurance companies of rich countries to play in developing “micro finance” in the world’s very poorest regions? The question has become relevant following the launch earlier this month (November) of the International year of Microcredit 2005 by the UN’s Agricultural Fund for Development (IFAD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH, Belgian and German governments have placed 162 cattle farms in quarantine after it was revealed they were feeding (partly dairy) livestock potato peels contaminated with dioxin. The carcinogenic chemical had been present in clay used by potato supplier McCain to separate potatoes of differing qualities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHT of companies to export mineral waste around the European Union (EU) for storage in mine galleries has been strengthened by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Judges said a Belgian environmental regulator Institut Bruxellois pour la Gestion de l’Environnement (IBGE) should not have independently redesignated as waste for disposal salt residues destined for burial in salt mines at Teutschenthal, Germany.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called for Swedish courts to refer more cases involving interpretation of European Union (EU) law to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), arguing that with only three referrals since 2001 Sweden is breaking its EU treaty obligations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECSTASY has become Britain’s number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States.…