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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has postponed agreement of new regulations governing how mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt, with the sulphides being found around volcanic areas and the crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
A FEW recent days on the edge of the Saronic Sea, due West of Athens, is all that was needed to renew the conviction Greece is the European Union’s most sumptuous cliché.

In this, the country is abundant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW fuel quality standards for vehicles sold in the European Union (EU) from 2008 have been published by the European Commission, which will stop sports utility vehicles (SUVs) operating under laxer emissions rules applying to commercial vans. Instead, under the so-called Euro 5 plan, they would follow tougher regulations for cars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked all European Union (EU) member states to immediately ban imports of feathers and live birds from Russia and Kazakhstan because of confirmed outbreaks of bird flu. No ban is necessary for eggs, poultry meat or meat exports, because Russia and Kazakhstan do not sell these products to the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed calls from the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for increased European Union (EU) tariff protection against dumped styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic rubber (SBS), an adhesive ingredient. Furthermore, it has proposed abolishing existing anti-dumping duties on the product on Taiwanese producers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
VETS and government officials of the 25 EU member states were due to meet in Brussels yesterday (Thursday) to consider whether more European farmers should be banned from keeping poultry outdoors as a precaution against bird flu. The Netherlands has already introduced a ban and Germany may follow suit in the next few weeks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S remote far-east Kamchatka peninsular is something of a sacred cow for conservationists, so it is no surprise the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has undertaken a detailed environmental impact assessment for a gold and silver mine project in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is consulting on the environmental, health-related and social impacts of a draft master plan for decommissioning 121 nuclear-powered submarines and ships off northwest Russia. The EBRD has been staging meetings in Moscow, Murmansk and Severodvinsk.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers yesterday (Tuesday) approved a steel trade deal that the European Commission negotiated earlier this year with the Ukraine. The agreement will run until December 2006, or whenever the Ukraine joins the World Trade Organisation if that comes earlier, mirroring a deal recently struck with Russia.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A BINDING European code of practice promoting the health of farmed fish is being developed. Created by the committee of the Council of Europe’s European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes, the code has been written because of concerns that new fish farming techniques are posing health and welfare problems.…