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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.

The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A SRI Lanka soap manufacturer has been given a global prize for the quality of his product seven months after the award was announced, because he had been unable to secure a visa to visit London for three days to receive it.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
FORD UK has promised that covers and jackets for its vehicle owner manuals will be made from recycled rubber in future as part of a pledge to recycle all of its manufacturing waste. The move came as Ford signed up to the Mayor of London’s “Green Procurement Code” run by London Remade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the British government to the European Court of Justice for failing to ensure that an environmental impact assessment has been carried out on a planned urban development project at White City, London. It involves the construction of a 60,000 m2 shopping and leisure centre with 16 hectares set aside for 4,500 car parking spaces.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BRITISH footwear importer has won a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which should lead it to hold onto GBPounds 38,085 in import duties repaid by the UK Customs and Excise, with judges saying customs officials could not reverse their earlier decision to return the money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is pushing for an acceleration of the phasing out of single hull tankers worldwide in the wake of the Prestige accident, where thousands of tonnes of crude oil spilled onto the pristine cost of Galicia, Spain.…

BY FRITZ BRETT
UK insurance consumers will benefit from a new 7-year regulation adopted by the European Commission providing for a block exemption authorising certain types of co-operation agreements between companies, say industry officials. The regulation, drawn up after intensive consultations with the industry, including the Association of British Insurers, covers agreements that include the establishment of non-binding standard policy conditions, the exchange of statistical information for the calculation of risks and the creation of insurance pools.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
FAMILY-OWNED British brewery, Fuller Smith and Turner, is launching its traditional English ale varieties across the Canada. It has been testing its London Pride brand in high-end bars in the key Ontario market, whilst ESB, Extra Strong Bitter will be introduced there in the autumn and London Porter in spring 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is talking closely to concerned environmental groups before agreeing to release US$300 million to build the planned key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Commission vice president Neil Kinnock can breath a sigh of relief after yesterday’s (Monday24) vote by the European Parliament’s budget control committee to recommend the discharge of the European Union’s year 2001 accounts. The decision brings to an end concerns that the committee would withhold consent because of revelations about mismanagement that Kinnock is alleged to have ignored, notably those made by whistle-blower and former chief accountant Marta Andreason, now suspended from her job.…