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BY MARK ROWE

WHILE many of the claimed benefits of nanotechnology remain uncertain, the cosmetics industry is at the vanguard of developments. There seem to be real advances that nanotechnology can offer for particular products, such as suncscreen and anti-ageing creams.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL standards are crucial for the trade in goods, because they allow

importers to have confidence that the foreign product they are buying meets the

specifications they are familiar with at home. So, it may come as some surprise that no

such global standard currently exists as regards the technical definition of biofuels.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the UK government that it intends to build a new generation of nuclear power plants stands out, not just because of the scale of the proposals, but because it is the first such comprehensive initiative in Europe for some years.…

By Renée Cordes, in Brussels

Europe’s universities and companies must work together as a matter of urgency to ensure a more productive, mobile workforce, European Union (EU) education Commissioner Ján Figel has told the first European University/Business Forum in Brussels.

"Europe a has been too weak for too long in bringing the worlds of university academia and business enterprise together, to achieve successful commercial exploitation of academic excellence," he said, adding that universities here have tended to shy away from ‘getting their hands dirty with business.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

SINCE biotech oil crops were first commercialised over a decade ago, their use has experienced yearly double-digit growth worldwide, with Latin America being something of a nursery for this growth. Globally, the area of biotech crops grew by 13%, or by 12 million hectares, in 2006, to reach 102 million hectares, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE FIGHT against money laundering took on a new character in early 2004 when the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) formally adopted new methodology drawn up and agreed the previous year by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been approving a series of operational programmes for many European Union (EU) member states’ fishing (and aquaculture) sectors, outlining how it will target money from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).

One of the largest recipients of this Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) subsidy scheme is France, which is to receive Euro 216 million from 2007-13, less than it received under the 2000-2006 Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG), which supplied Euro 278 million.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

ALTHOUGH final Christmas and New Year sales figures are not yet available, every indication from Dutch publishers and retailers is that the Netherlands enjoyed a plump festive season following 12 months in which sales of copies increased by 4.5% – representing in cash terms a 7.5% growth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CONSULTANTS report by Ecorys, of the Netherlands, advising the European Commission on the 2007-13 European Union (EU) trans-European networks (TENs) transport programme, has called for close targeting of its Euro 5.1 billion grants, ignoring roads altogether. The Commission has already decided it wants to spend most of the money on rail and inland waterways.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A new system of continuous ink-jet printing designed to help textile printers cope with the increasingly rapid turnover of clothes in shops has been developed by the French company Imaje jointly with the Dutch firm Osiris Digital Printing under the EU’s EUREKA initiative which provides support to businesses carrying out cross-border innovative projects.…