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BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
THE EUROPEAN auto industry is keeping a close eye on the European Commission at the moment, where a heavyweight political struggle is being staged over whether mandatory CO2 caps should be imposed on auto manufacturers. At the heart of this dispute is an argument over whether companies should shoulder the burden of reducing CO2 emissions from new vehicles or whether the job should also involve people like fuel suppliers, tire and other components suppliers and even consumers.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN-FLIGHT catering has experienced a turbulent ride in recent years. Self-evidently, this sub-sector of the food industry’s fortunes are inextricably linked to those of the aviation industry and, put simply, fewer passengers, means fewer food sales.

Yet as the aviation market has recovered in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001, in-flight caterers have seen an upturn in business – and new demands, many of which feed into additional demands and opportunities for food manufacturers, who, along with processors and cooks have to be eclectic and extremely versatile.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

EATING chocolate every day can help pregnant women decrease their risk of miscarriage according to new research from the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This finding by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers undermines the belief that chocolate actually increases miscarriages because of its caffeine content, particularly in the first three months of pregnancy.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

EUROPEAN manufacturers have been given the go-ahead to use explosive chemicals as igniters for airbags after a new European Union (EU) law had threatened to put them out of business. The new legislation drawn up by the European Commission in Brussels last year (2005) was principally aimed at the fireworks industry and laid down new regulations to ensure safety in handling, storage and transportation binding across the 25 member countries.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

AS the European Parliament votes through the mechanism for setting up the Euro V fuel and engineering cleanliness standards for the automotive industry, to come into effect from 2009, the health case for bringing in the even tougher Euro VI rules, and then Euro VII, VIII and even IX sooner rather than later continues to build.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN academics think of European Union (EU) funding for their projects or institutions, they often consider the European Commission, with its high profile in education and research spending through its framework programmes. But there is another EU institution developing an increasingly important role as a financial fountainhead for European higher education: the European Investment Bank (EIB).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONTRACTING governments to a key International Maritime Organisation (IMO) protocol on marine pollution have approved amendments allowing the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) under the seabed from February 2007. IMO members have changed the 1996 London Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter so CO2 can be stored in a "sub-seabed geological formation".…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

WHEN DISASTER strikes, public generosity and government donations direct huge sums of money to help survivors and repair local economies. However, what happens next is out of the donors’ hands. They have to trust that the various aid agencies and organisations overseas are directing funds to bona fide projects and individuals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin has signalled a tough fight with the European Union (EU) over a future energy deal as December 1 negotiations approach on renewing the existing EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement.

Speaking after an informal EU heads of government summit, Putin stressed an agreement would not involve Russia accepting the terms of the unratified 1991 multilateral Energy Charter Treaty, agreed by Boris Yeltsin in 1991, and involving EU firms breaking Gazprom’s monopoly on Russian and Central Asian gas supplies and accessing Russia energy networks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation (IMO) members have amended a protocol on marine pollution allowing the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) under the seabed from February 2007. The London Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter allows CO2 to be stored in a "sub-seabed geological formation", when overwhelmingly pure CO2.…