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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHT of European Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF to investigate allegations of wrongdoing in EU programmes will be extended to five non-member countries in the Balkans under agreements signed with Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia & Montenegro.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) Joint Research Centre has asked for laboratories around the EU to participate in a series of tests of cattle brain tissue, some infected with BSE, some healthy. The idea is to examine the effectiveness of existing tests and the stability of samples.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a policy paper recommending that a dedicated European tobacco and nicotine products agency be set up, mirroring the creation of EU agencies to regulate the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries. The agency should, it suggests, have the authority to authorise the sale of tobacco products on the EU market, as well as order and conduct research into tobacco and nicotine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TEAM of Dutch researchers has offered the PVC industry a possible alternative to using toxic phthalates to soften plastics, in the wake of September’s decision by the European Union (EU) to ban six of these chemicals in toys.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research project has developed a packing system for large items such as furniture and stone flooring that uses recyclable plastic and which is designed to boost its recovery. Companies from Italy, Spain and Turkey have created this environment-friendly robotic system under the umbrella of Eureka, a pan-European research network.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS a truly global criminal problem, it is only right that fighting money laundering is a key priority of the United Nations (UN). Its general assembly and key committees have made declarations and approved conventions on the subject, and its specialist agencies have also devoted time, money, specialist staff and energy to fighting the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research project has created sophisticated computer software providing pollution forecasts for industrial plants, cities and air quality authorities. The TEAP project, coordinated by research network EUREKA, uses complex mathematical and chemical models to combine information about local industrial plants with daily meteorological data.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a series of new approved, sometimes gruesome, health warnings for European Union (EU)-sold cigarette packs. Ensuring all the warnings meet the terms of the tobacco products directive, the Commission has stockpiled 42 designs in all the EU’s official languages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has suggested varying animal welfare rules for live exports according to the climate to which livestock are sent. It has called for research “to develop realistic ventilation models” and meanwhile for existing regulations to allow more flexibility on misting in summer for cooling, and heating incoming air during winter.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
THE INCOMNG European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Policy has held out little hope that the industry could be given any state-aided relief on diesel fuel.

Joe Borg, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Malta, told a European Parliament hearing this week (5-10) that he had every sympathy about the problems the ever rising fuel price was causing but doubted that the crisis could be tackled at a European Union (EU) level.…