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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE cooperation over the safe operation of Europe’s ageing complement of nuclear power stations has been discussed by a key meeting of specialists from existing European Union (EU) Member States and eastern European countries applying for membership or will join next May.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE cooperation over the safe operation of Europe’s ageing nuclear power stations has been discussed by a key meeting of specialists from existing European Union (EU) Member States and eastern European countries applying for membership. Staged by the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) at its Institute for Energy, Petten, the Netherlands, the meeting examined “future networking opportunities for nuclear plant life management.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ACTION plan designed to further spur growth in the key broadband and third-generation (3G) mobile sectors has been unveiled by the European Commission and will be presented to the European Union’s (EU) spring summit in Brussels next month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out that we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Austria and Finland to the European Court of Justice for failing to adopt an older (and looser) directive on GM food. This includes rules on post-marketing monitoring, public information, plus labelling and traceability.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE deal over third party access to gas pipelines has been agreed between German joint venture BEB and the European Commission, leading to Brussels closing its competition investigation into the company’s refusal to allow Norway’s Marathon to pump gas into its infrastructure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MASSACRES in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) civil war and the murky business dealings that have fuelled the conflict are to be the first focus of the International Criminal Court (ICC), its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission wants to scrap the experiment allowing shoe and leather repairers in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to charge lower rates to their customers. Its aim was to promote labour intensive industries such as shoe repairing, but following an analysis of the pilot project, the Commission has concluded that “the reduced rate had very little, if any, impact on prices or job creation.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN tunnelling company has developed a boring machine drawing on space technology to include a sophisticated sensor enabling operators to assess oncoming rock conditions whilst drilling continues. Herrenknecht AG, which drilled the Elbe tunnel, has been trialling its new sensor on a 9.8m-diameter TBM shield excavating the Pannerdensch Kanaal twin tunnel near Arnhem, the Netherlands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament could be heading for a political collision with the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over the scope of a reformed Seveso II directive, which imposes commitments on industry to avoid serious accidents.

At the heart of the looming struggle is the insistence of MEPs that the updated legislation covers all forms of mining activity, notably the chemical and thermal processing of dangerous substances within mines.…