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BY ALAN OSBORN

A 2010 report by the European Commission on the early operation of the European Union’s (EU) cash control regulation (1889/2005) which came into force in 2007 said implementation of the measure had been "generally satisfactory" but the jury is still out regarding its usefulness as an anti-money laundering (AML) tool.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

ALGAE have been heralded as the universal raw material of the future for biofuels, agricultural feed, nutritional supplements, biochemicals and cosmetics. They gobble up CO2, can clean up waste water, and many will thrive in seawater when the fresh variety is usually limited to the sunnier climes where algae can be grown more cheaply.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ALUMINA producers in Ireland, Italy and France have escaped an order from the European Commission that they pay their respective governments additional excise duty for heavy fuel oil they bought between 2002 and 2003. Brussels had told them to pay up because the companies had enjoyed a reduced rate of duty, which the Commission concluded was an illegal disguised subsidy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project commanding a budget of Euro EUR1.4 million is to develop a portable device able to detect minute contamination within pharmaceutical manufacturing lines. Of course, keeping these spotless is of critical importance to the pharma sector to prevent the contamination of medicines.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IT is easy to think of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a more or less total rip-off when you read that a majority of the 27 member countries were asked to pay back some Euro EUR578 million of farm subsidies provided by the European Commission in 2010 (the last year for which figures are available) because of irregularities in spending, including lack of adequate control.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEMAND for chromium could receive a boost from European Union (EU)-funded research that has used nanotechnology to help fix chrome finishes onto plastic materials to make auto parts look classy, while reducing vehicle weight, has been hailed as a success.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed the development by a European Union (EU)-funded research project of a novel drug delivery method based on mini-spheres in capsules. These contain active pharmaceutical ingredients that are solubilised as an emulsion, microemulsion or suspension and coated either by conventional or novel coating technologies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s plans to lavish Euro EUR9.1 billion on developing energy transmission networks that link the energy systems of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states go to the heart of the EU’s raison d’être: that Europe’s compact countries can achieve more in concert than in competition.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, in Brussels

REPRESENTATIVES of energy companies, nongovernmental organisations and European parliamentarians signed yesterday in Brussels a joint declaration calling on the European Union and its member states to pass laws and budgets underpinning the construction of a ‘Supergrid’ by 2050.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project that has used nanotechnology to help fix chrome finishes onto plastic materials to make auto parts look classy, while reducing vehicle weight, has been hailed as a success. The EU executive the European Commission has released a report on the benefits of the Ecsam project, which is being followed up with studies into other ways of attaching metallic finishes to plastics.…