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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of the European Commission’s plan to create a comprehensive European Union (EU) environmental health strategy have been unveiled by its environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom in a speech to a conference in Warsaw. She told environmental health specialists that a draft action plan would be presented to EU ministers next spring and would be debated in full at the Fourth Pan-European Environment and Health Ministerial Conference in Budapest, Hungary, in June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has warned of an outbreak of bluetongue disease in sheep in Sardinia. Authorities on the Italian island have slapped a movement ban on farms in Cagliari province to prevent it spreading.…

BY MARK ROWE
PEPSICO, which is marking 50 years of operations in the Middle East, finds itself at something of a crossroads. An all-American company, in a region where anti-Americanism has rarely been so widespread, it faces several challenges to ensure that it will continue to operate successfully in the Middle East for a further half a century.…

BY MARK ROWE
EMPLOYERS are to be given guidelines on the maximum levels of exposure to electro-magnetic waves that should be faced by staff who work with power lines, mobile phone and radar antennae under a long-debated European Union proposal that has now received agreement in principle by the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY MARK ROWE
EMPLOYERS will be required to carry out risk assessments of the dangers to their staff from electricity generators and power lines as well as mobile phone masts, following an agreement in principle of a directive by the European Union’s (EU) Council of Ministers.…

BY MARK ROWE
DETAILS have emerged that reveal the impact of the political deal struck by European Union ministers over a draft regulation that sets compulsory insurance requirements for civil aviation businesses operating from or flying into and across the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament (EP) committee has called for a significant boost in European Investment Fund spending on actions that suppress the growing illegal trade in bushmeat, which is threatening wild species in Africa, Asia and Latin America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against European Union (EU) exporters following the imposition of a hormone treated beef directive that the European Commission claims satisfies a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Sweden with legal action at the European Court of Justice over a ban on its residents ordering private deliveries of alcohol via independent import delivery services. Under Swedish law, private individuals can, under certain conditions, bring alcohol into Sweden for their own use, if they do so personally.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW advanced carbon-fibre composites have been developed by a European Union research project that can be used to strengthen decaying and historic buildings, allowing contractors to avoid using more cumbersome traditional methods. The international COMREHAB project has created high resistance synthetic fibres from epoxy or polyester resin matrixes.…