Search Results for: Netherlands

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Urenco Limited up to Euro 200 million to extend the nuclear fuel enrichment capacity of two plants – in Britain and the Netherlands. Two environmental impact assessments have been completed and the EIB says the projects (costing Euro 430 million overall) should now comply with EU environment laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Urenco Limited up to Euro 200 million to extend the nuclear fuel enrichment capacity of two plants – in Britain and the Netherlands. Two environmental impact assessments have been completed and the EIB says the projects (costing Euro 430 million overall) should now comply with EU environment laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH and Dutch researchers warn oyster and mussel health is being risked by CO2 emissions’ making the world’s seas significantly more acidic. The Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the Oceanographic laboratory of the French National Scientific Research Centre have noted projections ocean pH will fall 0.4 units by 2100.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has called for British hauliers to adopt the same road worthiness standards abroad than at home, after a European Commission statistical report indicated a flawed safety record driving in other European Union (EU) countries.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A LENGTHY row over European Union (EU) energy policy is shaping up following the publication in April of a detailed independent study sponsored by the European Commission of the electricity markets in six EU countries.

The study – Structure and Performance of Six European Wholesale Electricity Markets in 2003, 2004 and 2005 – was drawn up by the consultants London Economics in association with Global Energy Decisions and focuses on the electricity wholesale markets in Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the UK excluding Northern Ireland.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
As with many financial service providers in the EU, the definition of financial adviser differs, often significantly, from one country to another. In its very basic sense – i.e. the provision of financial advice pure and simple, without the add-on of other services that could involve the handling of client money – the profession of fee-paid advisor is a limited one and probably confined to only a few thousand people in Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a directive criminalising across the European Union (EU) the counterfeiting and pirating of goods, a serious problem regarding leather products. MEPs however excluded patent rights abuse from its scope and also decided its minimum criminal punishments should apply only to deliberate and commercial counterfeiting.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas
GRAFFITI artists, US baby boomers and the massive expansion of low-cost housing are several – very diverse – factors buoying up Mexico’s paint industry.

Vast improvements in the property-buying process for foreigners, plus a slowing of the housing sector at home, are making the country’s coastal areas from Cancun to Baja California increasingly attractive for North American retirees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved in principle a directive criminalising across the European Union (EU) the counterfeiting and pirating of goods, although MEPs weakened the proposed legislation with amendments. In its first reading, the parliament excluded patent rights abuse from its scope and also decided its minimum criminal punishments should apply only to deliberate and commercial counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCENTRATIONS of manure and fertiliser nitrogen run-off into watercourses across Europe have been made starkly clear in a new European Union’s Joint Research Centre atlas on nutrient pollution. This shows the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark as being Europe’s hotspots for such contamination, although Wales and Northern Ireland perform poorly.…