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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TOBACCO industry is facing another assault from the European Union (EU), this time at the hands of a new environment and health strategy for 2004-2010 being developed by the European Commission and which has already received approval in principal from the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a detailed fishing access deal allowing EU fishing boats access to the Atlantic fishing waters off west Africa’a Guinea Bissau until June 2006. Under the agreement, licences to fish shrimp will be granted to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek vessels, with boats from Spain (enjoying the overwhelming majority of rights), Italy and Greece being allowed to take fin-fish/cephalopods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE nanotechnology technology has been trialled in the United States, effectively spraying a protective crystal crust on a New Mexico mountainside that had been left exposed to erosion by a fire. Its flames destroyed 5,000 acres of land considered sacred by the Taos Pueblo Native Indian group.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN cotton industry has found ways turn its cotton gin waste into new products, helped by its federal government. The sector produces a lot of waste through its cotton gins and has to absorb the high cost of removing them.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have successfully developed a synthetic virus in only two weeks, creating a breakthrough technique encouraging researchers to believe that they may within 10 years be able to create viruses large enough to eat pollution and even create hydrogen fuel as a by-product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) committee has called on governments to promote competition within the emerging broadband and wireless sectors. The advice comes from the OECD committee on information, computer and communications policy, which outlined principles that should guide the development of DSL, cable, fixed wireless and satellite.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a European Commission plan to increase the amount of European Union (EU) funding for cross-border telecommunications infrastructure installation via its e-TEN (trans-European networks) programme. MEPs backed boosting the maximum proportion of a project’s deployment costs that can be sourced from e-TENs budgets from 10 to 30 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UTILITY research units can bid for funding for international collaborative projects into sustainable energy systems from a pot of Euro 3 million released under the European Union’s (EU) sixth framework programme. In a formal call for proposals, the European Commission is looking to fund studies that may have medium and long term impact.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane
AUSTRALIAN researchers have developed a pilot plant that will sterilise ships’ ballast water. This technology, invented by researchers from the Cooperative Research Centre for Reefs, at James Cook University in Queensland, is undergoing tests in Townsville.…