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BY KATE REW
THE NEW edition of the global code, which sets the standard for imports and exports of healthy fish has just been released. The third version of the International Aquatic Animal Health Code published by Office International des Epizooties (corr), lists the diseases that would stop the import or export of fish, molluscs and crustaceans, under international trade laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has said that the average annual budget for the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, that will replace the spending of the soon-to-lapse European Coal and Steel Community, should average at Euro 45 million. Around 72 per cent will be devoted to the steel industry, with the remaining 28 per cent being set aside for studies into the coal sector.…

Alan Osborne
SMALLER companies are still not getting the message about the link between ill health and conditions in the workplace. Papers presented to the recent Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) conference at the Birmingham NEC from May 21 to 24 showed that national campaigns are missing the mark.…

KEITH NUTHALL
WATER has no great value in itself. It is it what it helps create that counts. And for every improvement in efficiency in water use, communities and companies get richer and consume less water when doing so. It is what economists call a virtuous circle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has established a Clean Air for Europe programme, which includes a commitment to create an integrated anti-air pollution strategy by 2004. It will promote the collection of detailed information on the problem, which will be the basis for decisions supposedly based on sound science.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given an indication of the likely size of the average annual budget for a new Research Fund for Coal and Steel, that will replace the spending of the soon-to-lapse European Coal and Steel Community.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is to fund a Euro 120,000 research project examining ways of further reducing carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles, (category N1). Brussels has called on companies and think tanks to bid for the contract to carry out the studies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN government advisory group has called for increased numbers of seals to be hunted, to help recovering Atlantic fish stocks, which are estimated to be at 10 per cent of what they were 20 years ago.

The Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) said that the seal population has over-expanded and that its numbers must be controlled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched the first of a series of virtual research institutes, independent organisations that links their scientists and technicians by remote electronic communications, such as broadband Internet networks. The idea is to bring to life the European Commission plan to create a European Research Area, where think tanks and university departments in different Member States work together, regularly and effectively, maximising the EU’s potential for innovation.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is to fund a Euro 120,000 research project examining ways of further reducing carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles. Brussels has called on companies and think tanks to bid for the contract to carry out the studies.…