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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has launched a publicly available database containing national environmental reports from 52 European and central Asian countries and five geographical regions. The database also includes international assessments of these countries, which include all European Union states, countries applying to join the EU and most former Soviet republics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union airport industry has been asked to comment on possible changes to the EU’s key groundhandling directive (EC/96/67), as the European Commission is preparing to propose reforms later this year. The deadline for submitting suggestions is June 1 and may be based on questions posed in a new consultation document issued by Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has released a detailed report warning that the globalisation of the world’s utilities is leading to job losses in the energy and water sectors, with only the roll-out of new infrastructure and services in developing countries likely to generate employment.…

KEITH NUTHALL
AN INITIATIVE to transform natural gas burnt off in Russia’s oil fields into electricity and consumable heat has been developed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). It is granting a six year US$80 million loan to a key subsidiary of Russia’s Lukoil group – CSJC Lukoil-Perm – to help it cut gas flaring to 20 per cent by 2005, compared with 52 per cent at typical Russian oilfields.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS AMERICAN and British military forces secure control of Iraq from the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein using the latest military technology, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a cautionary report confirming for the first time that depleted uranium shells can and have contaminated drinking water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REPORTS sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency by the Japan Safeguards Office are expected to show that discrepancies in figures on the amount of nuclear waste at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant are due to statistical differences between initial calculations of how much nuclear material had been received by the reactor operator compared with the amounts that were actually measured later on.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Meat Institute (AMI) has called on the US government to clarify draft guidelines on how to operate a new labelling law, which will require the declaration of the name of the country where a food item originated.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE ETHIOPIAN government has announced it is taking action to reduce the flood of gold being smuggled from the country, after revealing that US$30-million worth of the precious metal, weighing approximately three million grams, is smuggled annually out through neighbouring countries.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Mr Willem de Ruiter (51), a Dutchman with a degree in civil engineering, has been appointed the first executive director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, which was created by EU governments last year and is in the process of being set up.…

BY SIGRÚN DAVÍDSDOTTIR
THE FOUR Scandinavian language-speaking countries, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, all pass with flying colours on Transparency International’s Corruption Index when considering their exposure to money laundering. Though the use criminal proceeds is not a serious issue in this friendly part of the world, their vicinity to countries in the former communist eastern bloc and the increasingly pervasive nature of international terrorism means that no one can afford to be caught sleeping on the post, especially not after 9/11.…