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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has formally requested that a second World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel is set up to adjudicate in its long running row with the US over its assessment of benefits enjoyed by privatised steel companies from past public subsidies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been condemned by the European Ombudsman for conducting “maladministration” by being too slow to deal with safety complaints about the European Union’s (EU) Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany. An official claimed in writing of alleged infringements of EU laws on the protection against radiation and on dangerous goods at the institute.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S performance in reducing heart disease deaths could be much improved compared with many of its European Union (EU) partners, a new World Health Organisation heart disease atlas, has shown.

Dividing a country’s annual deaths from heart disease with its population, saturated fats and beer loving Britain had a comparative factor of 2, based on 120,530 deaths in 2002 amongst a population of 59 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research consortium says it has adapted existing nanotechnology to create tiny switches that can further shrink the size of computers. The E! 2839 MESCI-I project – coordinated by European Union (EU) research network EUREKA – claims to “have succeeded where many others have failed – by making the production of miniature electric and computer systems economically viable”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The creation of a European Public Prosecutor next year is among a number of

actions announced by the European Commission in its fight against fraud. In

its annual report the Commission claims to be slowly winning the battle,

saying there was a reduction of 20 per cent to 482 million euros in

financial “irregularities” in 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY ordered into the effects of European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH has been roundly criticised by members of the European Parliament committee that ordered it. Wiesbaden-based company Arthur D. Little’s report claimed that REACH could cause “a 2.9% loss in GDP and a 24.7% loss in (chemical and related industry) production”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALCOPOPS have had a bad rap. They are viewed, whether correctly or accurately, as the drink that weans young people from Coca-Cola and 7-Up into the world of alcohol, without them learning how to drink sensibly. They are also the drinks industry’s key innovation of the last decade, creating a new sector that – before a recent decline in popularity – seemed on course to eclipse some established products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALCOPOPS have had a bad rap. They are viewed, whether correctly or accurately, as the drink that weans young people from Coca-Cola and 7-Up into the world of alcohol, without them learning how to drink sensibly. They are also the drinks industry’s key innovation of the last decade, creating a new sector that – before a recent decline in popularity – seemed on course to eclipse some established products.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) scientists have developed artificial sensors that can – they claim – more rapidly and cheaply assess the freshness of fish than existing trained human panels. Traditionally, these specialists monitor “appearance, smell, taste and texture”, which is, said a European Commission note “expensive, both in terms of training and assembling the panel.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CAMPAIGN to reduce the growing number of collisions between road vehicles and deer on Britain’s roads has called on both drivers and highways officials to deal with this potentially deadly risk.

The Deer Initiative estimates that between 30,000 and 50,000 deer are hit by cars, vans and lorries in the UK annually, with 10-20 people being killed in such accidents.…