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BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MJ DESCHAMPS, MARK ROWE, RENDAN DE BEER, MAKKI MARSEILLES

IT has been a real slog – persuading the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states to implement detailed plans to manage their water resources on a river basin basis, rather than artificial political boundaries bearing little relation to hydrology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MJ DESCHAMPS, MARK ROWE, BRENDAN DE BEER and MAKKI MARSEILLES

IT has been a real slog – persuading the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states to implement detailed plans to manage their water resources on a river basin basis, rather than artificial political boundaries bearing little relation to hydrology.…

BY MARK ROWE

Recession forced eastern European smokers to ditch premium brands for cheaper smokes

Tobacco majors have long targeted eastern Europe as a soft emerging market for premium brands. But times got tough during the recession, when smokers swapped aspiration for economy.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE cuts and bruises from angry patients are nothing new to nurses, there are growing concerns that there is a link between physical assaults and long-term musculoskeletal symptoms.

The mental and emotional consequences of nursing violence have been on the radar of health institutions for a long time, but a recent study published in the UK-based international academic journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine is the first to make the connection between physical violence and chronic health problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDIUM-sized and large paint and coating coatings companies and their suppliers have wrongly claimed low administrative charges for small businesses under the European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control system, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned. After the first November 30 deadline for registering chemicals under REACH has passed, ECHA officials will screen claims for the small business administration rate of Euro EUR8,300 and EUR2,070 for micro businesses, assessing whether these claimants were actually small.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Japan’s Lotte Group’s new Polish subsidiary the Warsaw-based chocolate maker E.Wedel has confirmed the company is planning to expand in eastern Europe, following reports that it is to build five new plants in Poland. "With the acquisition of Wedel, the Lotte Group gained a toehold to secure production base in the European market for the future development and intends to expand this business throughout European market," Wedel’s spokesperson Marta Pokutycka-M?drala…

BY ALAN OSBORN

WINTER always beings jitters to European utilities. Will Russia cut off gas to a neighbouring country because of a payment row? Until major new pipeline routes are in place, such as Nord Stream or Nabucco, this concern will continue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TARGETED investments aimed at improving energy self-sufficiency and efficiency maybe the key result of a grand European Union (EU) ‘Energy 2020’ strategy, released this month (November 10) by the European Commission. Building on existing reforms to liberalise and green EU energy production and delivery, the policy paper proposes ensuring energy efficiency is a criteria of public procurement by member states, and also that energy efficiency certificates are created to encourage sustainable energy investment by industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GERMAN government is giving Euro EUR1.2 million to a UN project expanding and upgrading small and medium-sized generic pharmaceutical manufacturers in Asia and Africa. It is run by the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and aims to spread medicine manufacture across a continent where production is mainly concentrated in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

SALES of new cars are still holding up surprisingly well despite the global downturn, but within a few years of their purchase, how many of them will be running on retread tyres?

The signs are that the market for retread and recycled tyres will grow, as world demand for rubber grows, particularly in China.…