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KEITH NUTHALL
EMISSIONS trading plans for eight European Union (EU) countries – including Britain – have been approved by the European Commission, enabling 5,000 industrial plants to buy and sell pollution permits by January 2005. Brussels accepted national plans from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden unconditionally and another three – from Austria, Britain and Germany – on condition that technical changes are made, which would make them automatically acceptable.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A SECOND bid by a group of district heating companies to overturn massive fines levied by the European Commission, which found they had been participating in an illegal cartel, should be thrown out by the European Court of Justice, an ECJ advocate general has recommended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROUND-LEVEL checks on the thickness of polar ice caps are being staged by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess environmental monitoring data which will culled its oncoming Cryosat satellite mission. ESA has sent scientists to ice sheets in the north of Canada, Greenland and Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOLLOWING the success in collecting data about prehistoric climate changes from polar ice cores, the European Union (EU)-funded PROMESS1 project has collected 500,000-year-old sediment samples from the Mediterranean floor. These, said a European Commission note, “will allow researchers to reconstruct climate variations since pre-historic times, thus providing keys for understanding what is happening to Earth’s climate now…holding (geological) archives of past developments”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JOINT European research project has been given Euro 12 million in European Commission funding to perfect techniques for producing antibodies and vaccines from plants to prevent and treat major human diseases, such as AIDS, rabies and TB.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEWLY launched European Union (EU)-funded research project will uncover genetic factors linked to depression, helping to develop new drug treatments over the next five years. The NEWMOOD project has received Euro 7.2 million in EU funding. It will help researchers “revolutionise antidepressant drugs, which have not changed much over the past 30 years,” claimed the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has – for a change – some good news to crow about regarding greenhouse gases, with the European Environment Agency (EEA) saying the old 15 member EU’s emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINNISH courts should examine their country’s ‘autovero’ car tax system to see whether it is unfair to drivers importing cars from other European Union (EU) member countries, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. If national judges say it is unfair to charge the full tax on drivers who have already paid car tax in another EU country, then they should demand the system be reformed, said the ECJ.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROUND-LEVEL checks on the thickness of polar ice caps are being staged by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess environmental monitoring data which will be culled by its oncoming Cryosat satellite mission. ESA has sent scientists to ice sheets in the north of Canada, Greenland and Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL work accident statistics are keenly examined by occupational health practitioners, but they do not enable the safety of British workplaces to be compared against other European countries; that is where Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical agency comes in.…