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BY ALAN OSBORN
SMART cards for health are not exactly a novelty but the Prevencard to be launched in the UK next year uses some particularly smart technology.

Prevencard, which is being marketed by the Spanish company Grupo Prevencard International, is a commercial application of security research carried out under the EU’s 5th Framework Programme for research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has given himself a tough job; trying to persuade dairy farmers it is time to expose themselves to unfettered world markets when prices are at rock bottom, while facing hostility to further CAP reform from some European Union governments, notably France.…

BY RICHARD HURST
TRADE and Investment South Africa Transport Industries – a Pretoria government unit – and the country’s Department of Trade and Industry have announced that they will jointly launch a council to seek export opportunities in the railway equipment market, notably crushed stone ballast.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN insurance group Gerling is providing financial and managerial support to a ground-breaking environmental initiative in the hope that it will be copied and that the company will be asked to underwrite similar initiatives because of its expertise.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has taken an important step towards giving EU water legislation more teeth, by moving against Belgium’s system of “tacit approvals” of pollution. Belgian law allows companies to assume that they have a right to pollute if they make an application to regulators and then receive no reply.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LEGAL formalities for creating the Single European Sky are approaching completion. The initial proposal from the European Commission for integrating the EU’s national air traffic control authorities into a continental ATC system has now been approved by the EU member governments and, in slightly amended form, by the European Parliament.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
PUBLIC protests have broken out in Sri Lanka against the Bandaranaike International Airport expansion project, which would evict more than 10,000 families living in and around the Kurana, Katunayake and Katana areas. Campaigners fighting the project were once supported by the ruling United National Party when it was in opposition, but it switched policies after winning last year’s election.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A DEAL over financing the construction of a proposed Bangalore international airport in southern India has been delayed beyond its original September deadline. A Siemens-led consortium has yet to sign a concession agreement and is waiting for amendments to Indian aviation legislation to pass through the national parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union directive, regulating insurance mediators, such as brokers, has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers and will come into force as soon as procedural steps are taken.

The insurance mediation directive will allow brokers, banks and car dealers selling policies to trade across the EU by registering in their home Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KOZLODUY International Decommissioning Support Fund has set aside Euro 20 million to help fund energy efficiency improvements to the district heating system of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and is expected to earmark another Euro 10 million later this year.…