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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS have been raised by eastern and central European environmental groups about the possible worsening of drinking water quality that could be caused by the construction of the planned Danube-Oder-Elbe canal. The Czech Republic’s Friends of the Earth branch is leading green groups from Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia in pressing the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to avoid including the project in its priority list for funding from the trans-European transport networks (TENs) scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL gas giants ExxonMobil and Shell are to end cooperation over marketing supplies to customers in (largely north-western) Germany, removing this business from their 50/50 joint-venture BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH (BEB). Instead, the two companies will split its custom between them and start competing through their respective subsidiaries: ExxonMobil Gas Marketing Deutschland GmbH and Shell Erdgasbeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been negotiated between the European Commission and the United States that should create common pre-shipment clearance shipments for goods shipped between the European Union (EU) and the US. If EU ministers agree, it would tell European and American exporters to provide sufficient information about goods to allow “sophisticated targeting” of security checks, prior to shipping.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been negotiated between the European Commission and the United States that should create common pre-shipment clearance shipments for goods shipped between the European Union (EU) and the US. If EU ministers agree, it would tell European and American exporters to provide sufficient information about goods to allow “sophisticated targeting” of security checks, prior to shipping.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NEGOTIATIONS on a new eco-points system setting quotas for road hauliers travelling through Alpine passes in Austria have stalled following disagreement between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers. The UK, along with Germany and France, blocked the deal arguing that it would bar transit through Austria for many vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL gas giants ExxonMobil and Shell are to end cooperation over marketing supplies to customers in (largely north-western) Germany, removing this business from their 50/50 joint-venture BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH (BEB). Instead, the two companies will split its custom between them and start competing through their respective subsidiaries: ExxonMobil Gas Marketing Deutschland GmbH and Shell Erdgasbeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WASTE-to-energy plant will be built in eastern Germany with the help of a European Investment Bank loan of up to Euro 65 million. Müllheizkraftwerk (MHKW) Rothensee’s plant would be a first for the state of Saxony-Anhalt and would burn around 300,000 tonnes per year of domestic, commercial and industrial waste, generating 35 MWe and also heat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of Swedish electricity company Graninge by its rival Sydkraft, both of whom supply power in Sweden and Finland. Brussels’ competition approval follows an inquiry into the deal’s possible effect in Sweden, where the three largest players, including Sydkraft, account for about 80 per cent of the electricity markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to clear legal logjams preventing companies with share capital from different European Union (EU) Member States from merging, transactions that are illegal in the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Greece, Germany, Finland, Denmark and Austria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference is being staged in Brussels this week, which will examine how to create realistic risk perceptions about controversial subjects, where public concern can significantly influence democratic government policies. The European Commission organised event will especially focus on food safety, where fears about biotechnology – especially on genetically modified foodstuffs – have forced European Union (EU) institutions and governments to take a very cautious stance.…