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BRUSSELS CRACKS DOWN ON WATER LEGISLATION LAWBREAKERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking legal action against three European Union (EU) countries over alleged breaches of EU water legislation. It will ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to impose potentially massive daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s against Greece for breaking the EU urban waste water directive.…
EU ROUND UP - PIEBALGS TO PUSH FOR EU ENERGY REGULATOR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will use his last year in office to push for the creation of an EU-wide energy regulator with real power. Speaking while the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers debate a hybrid regulatory system for EU energy producers, Piebalgs has said he wants a strong EU regulator to control Europe’s energy giants.…
BAKERS' YEAST DEAL APPROVED BY BRUSSELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of baker’s yeast production facilities from GBI, of the Netherlands, by Britain’s Associated British Foods (ABF). Brussels approved the deal after ABF promised to offload GBI yeast businesses in Spain and Portugal to allay competition concerns.…
IEA SAYS BOOST RENEWABLES BY 50% TO AVOID CLIMATE CHANGE CALAMITY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD must generate half its electricity supplies from renewable energy sources by 2050 to avoid the most serious climate change, claims a new International Energy Agency report. It praises renewable programmes in Spain, Germany, Denmark and Portugal (wind-power) and China (solar heating).…
OLD 15 MEMBER EU WILL HIT KYOTO TARGETS SAYS EEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OLD 15 member European Union (EU) will hit its Kyoto Protocol collective target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 8% for the period 2008-2012 from 1990 levels, but only by financing pollution cuts in poor countries abroad.…
BAKERS' YEAST DEAL APPROVED BY BRUSSELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of baker’s yeast production facilities from GBI, of the Netherlands, by Britain’s Associated British Foods (ABF). Brussels approved the deal after ABF promised to offload GBI yeast businesses in Spain and Portugal to allay competition concerns.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP - DEVASTATED FISHERY RESTORED BY ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAN-MADE ecological disaster that almost destroyed a fishing industry is now being reversed. The northern Aral Sea – once a shallow saline remnant – is now growing again, boosting fish production. Excess irrigation shrank central Asia’s Aral Sea by 70% from 1960 to 2004, and its level dropped about 20 metres, splitting it in two in 1990: a small Northern Aral Sea entirely within Kazakhstan and a large Southern Aral Sea, shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.…
RAPEX REPORTS MORE SAFETY BANS OF COSMETIC PRODUCTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) product safety network RAPEX has reported a series of EU market withdrawals of personal care products because they contain substances banned under the EU cosmetics directive:
*Estonia banned two lines of Turkish nail polish Mirra lux for including dibutyl phthalate (6.17% by weight);
*Ivory Coast-made whitening cream Lightening Beauty Crème has been withdrawn from the Irish market for containing hydroquinone (3.8%); and
*Portugal has blocked the sale of Italian hair colouring cream Color Contrast for containing the banned substance m-phenylenediamine.…
L'ORÉAL WINS PARALLEL TRADING CASE AT EFTA COURT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) product safety network RAPEX has reported a series of EU market withdrawals of personal care products because they contain substances banned under the EU cosmetics directive:
*Estonia banned two lines of Turkish nail polish Mirra lux for including dibutyl phthalate (6.17% by weight);
*Ivory Coast-made whitening cream Lightening Beauty Crème has been withdrawn from the Irish market for containing hydroquinone (3.8%); and
*Portugal has blocked the sale of Italian hair colouring cream Color Contrast for containing the banned substance m-phenylenediamine.…
BRUSSELS CONFERENCE CALLS FOR NEW INDOOR AIR QUALITY LAWS
BY PATRICIA KELLY
A LENGTHY investigation over several years into the impact of indoor air quality on public health will result in a series of policy recommendations, pushing the European Commission into proposing formal regulations fixing the problem across the European Union (EU).…