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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has rejected European Union (EU) calls for countries to have the right to impose aviation fuel taxes on all airlines operating within their territories. ICAO’s general assembly listened to opposition from the US, China, Brazil and Russia, postponing any decision until 2007, at the earliest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European Commissioner for health and consumer affairs has shown signs in a European Parliament questionnaire that he could be as feisty as his predecessor, Ireland’s David Byrne, calling for an EU-wide ban on smoking in public.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOMING demand for beer in Russia has encouraged the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to lend Euro 7.9 million to help expand and restructure a Turkish-owned bottling plant. The money will be spent on OJSC Pokrov Glass Plant, in northwest Russia, which was bought by Turkey’s Anadolu Cam last March.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S performance in reducing heart disease deaths could be much improved compared with many of its European Union (EU) partners, a new World Health Organisation heart disease atlas, has shown.

Dividing a country’s annual deaths from heart disease with its population, saturated fats and beer loving Britain had a comparative factor of 2, based on 120,530 deaths in 2002 amongst a population of 59 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA and Russia have blocked the addition of chrysotile asbestos to the Rotterdam Convention’s “prior informed consent”, which would force exporters to secure the consent of an importing government before shipping the carcinogenic material abroad. The two countries claimed at a meeting of parties to the UN convention that the material is safe when processed properly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN governments should exploit the scare tactics of the 1980’s when AIDS campaigns shocked promiscuous sex devotees and intravenous drug users into changing their behaviour, stemming HIV infections, the World Health Organisation has claimed. It fears dramatic increases in HIV cases in eastern Europe that are amongst the world’s worst, notably in Estonia, Latvia, Russia and the Ukraine “where the epidemic continues to spread unchecked”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A THREATENED renewed ban on EU animal product exports to Russia has been averted. Russia has accepted the EU’s principle of regional controls, where the European Commission can restrict the sale of products affected by disease to a limited area of EU countries.…

By Alan Osborn
A threatened blockage in the shipment of all animal products from the EU countries to Russia has been averted following an agreement on veterinary certification reached at talks between the European Commission, the Dutch EU presidency and the Russian agricultural ministry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA and the European Union (EU) have opened talks on an increase in uranium shipments to the EU, the head of Russia’s federal energy agency has admitted. Alexander Rumiantsev told the Interfax news agency: “Talks are already underway,” adding that Russia could boost its deliveries, without affecting domestic supplies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the policy portfolios commanded by the incoming European Commission from November generally spells good news for the European Union’s (EU) ferrous and non-ferrous sectors, senior industry figures have told Metal Bulletin. “In general … we are quite happy with the commissioners who will be responsible for industry”, said Gordon Moffat, director of the association of European iron and steel industries Eurofer.…