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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.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided not to oppose the granting of state aid by Italy to the Franco-Italian company ST Microelectronics for three research projects costing the equivalent of some pounds 275 million. The maximum aid permitted under EU regulations is pounds 86 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has appealed for information technology research teams to become involved in a project to identify common content characteristics of the most internationally popular European Union-designed websites.

Its directorate general for Information Society said that it wanted to “benchmark availability and usage of European digital content,” focusing on sites receiving the most hits in the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland and the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PUBLISHERS Association has welcomed the final agreement – after four years of discussions – of the EU digital copyright directive, but has warned that the debates are not finished, the focus will now shift to its implementation by Member States.…

Keith Nuthall
ASK the man propping up the bar in a smoky pub who is Britain’s top expert on secret codes, and he would probably say James Bond. Which is probably why many companies are hiring experts from a government agency linked to its intelligence unit GCHQ for advice on computer cryptography and other IT security issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHIPPING companies will be able to source information about European Union research projects focusing on the computerisation of maritime transport systems, via a new Internet site. Managed by Brussels’ SWAN project, the site includes information on maritime research, technology and development projects funded by the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies Programme (IST).…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUPPLY and quality of water services and their environmental management have been near the top of the research agendas of institutions of the European Union this year, with the European Commission’s directorate generals (DG) for research and the environment being particularly active.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN manufacturing industries will be able to apply for grants from budgets of Euro 1.7 billion, which has been earmarked for energy, transport, sustainable development and global change and of Euro 1 billion for aeronautics and space – if proposals from the European Commission for a new framework research programme, are agreed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?

Let me make it easy for you.

Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?

Let me make it easy for you.

Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…