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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has released a report calling on water authorities to better plan ahead for possible supply shortages and flooding caused by global warming. Existing planning often focuses on “vulnerability to current climate variability but not addressing long-term climate change”, said the agency, which wants more “adaptation planning and implementation” in water resources, ecosystems and related public health management.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN today’s highly competitive power sector, electricity companies and their suppliers are always looking for an edge over rivals, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies through its ‘seventh framework programme’, its largest ever research spending scheme, commanding budgets worth Euro 53.2 billion in total.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING a crystal ball can be useful for environmental health teams wanting to get ahead of the game and know what regulatory changes might be coming in a few years time. But how can they achieve such prescience?…

BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL cosmetics companies are increasingly casting an eye over south-east Asia. In the middle of the first decade of the 21st Century it would appear to offer all things to all companies.

With Asia (including nearby China) representing half of the world’s population and an economic growth rate ranging between 5 and 10%, many companies are interested in entering or developing these markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN today’s highly competitive energy sector, oil and gas companies and their suppliers are always looking for an edge over rivals, especially in technology. So it can only be good news that the European Union (EU) will from this year until 2013 be spending Euro 2.3 billion on energy studies through its ‘seventh framework programme’, its largest ever research spending scheme, commanding budgets worth Euro 53.2 billion in total.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and food industry international organisations have been asked to comment on draft guidelines on using antibiotic resistance marker genes in transgenic meat production drafted by global food standards body Codex Alimentarius. This additional consultation follows pressure from the European Commission for more studies into these genes’ safety.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) is to push for limiting public spending on roads, because such subsidies promote transport greenhouse gas and other pollution emissions. It will release a detailed study on subsidies in March, but a new agency report on greenhouse gases and transport notes: “Between Euro 270 and Euro 290 billion is spent annually in Europe in transport subsidies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AMERICAN anti-piracy group has warned that the Czech Republic and Costa Rica have joined the well-known major sources of counterfeit clothing such as China and Brazil. And the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition adds that the “vast majority” of pirated clothing exported from the Czech Republic was actually made in China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is predicting growing European Union (EU) and global world markets for sugar from 2007-13. However, in its medium-term food market analysis, it EU producers could miss these opportunities if they fail to restructure under the EU’s sugar market reforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING a crystal ball can be useful and profitable for confectionary businesses wanting to know what investments they may need to comply with future regulations and best practice.

Question is how to acquire such intelligence? One tactic is to exploit globalisation.…