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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SCOTTISH MEP has raised concerns at the European Parliament about reports of the Dundrennan firing range, in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, being used by the British military to test depleted uranium weapons. Green MEP Neil MacCormick alleged the firing may have dumped 29 tonnes of depleted uranium off south-west Scotland, a concern to both British and Irish citizens, and, he claimed, a likely breach of the UN Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSULTING, training and research institute into microencapsulation has been launched in Europe, funded by Euro 1.8 million of European Union money. The ncapsolutions group will advise on turning capsule technologies into viable business products, with the cosmetics market a key target.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) pilot is combining wireless satellite broadband services with terrestrial local area networks (LANs) to bring high speed Internet access to rural areas in Britain. Working with the UK’s Avanti Communications, France’s Eutelsat and Rural Solutions – a British rural development group – the ‘Broadband Access for Rural Regeneration with DVB-RCS’ (BARRD) trial is about to begin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Committee of the Regions, (which represents regional governments such as Scotland and Catalonia, as well as local councils), has produced a more sophisticated definition of regional airports than merely measuring passenger numbers. Responding to a European Commission call for an opinion on the capacity of EU regional airports, the committee decided to better define them, focusing on connections to large airports and numbers of transit passengers, which shed light on these terminals’ roles in air transport.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is one of a number of EU countries being threatened by the European Commission with actions in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for non-compliance with EU waste treatment and water laws. The potential legal action over waste management arises from a ruling by the ECJ in 2002 when the UK was condemned for failing to adopt waste management plans that conformed to the EU’s framework waste, hazardous waste and packaging waste directives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farms that have to slaughter their whole stock because of disease are not automatically entitled to compensation under European Union law, the European Court of Justice has ruled. In a ruling likely to be controversial in aquaculture, the court has said that a complete cull should not be regarded as an illegal attack on the property rights of fish farmers, even though such a slaughter would be mandatory under EU legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farms that have to slaughter their whole stock because of disease are not automatically entitled to compensation under European Union law, the European Court of Justice has ruled. In a ruling likely to be controversial in aquaculture, the court has said that a complete cull should not be regarded as an illegal attack on the property rights of fish farmers, even though such a slaughter would be mandatory under EU legislation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WOOL is to be added to the list of products that can be protected by the European Union’s (EU) geographical indication legislation, agriculture ministers have agreed in Brussels. These laws safeguard traditional marketing descriptions for wool and woollen products based on geographical names such as Scotland, the Shetlands, Yorkshire, Wales, Witney, Otterburn etc.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SOME four years after they began, negotiations for a deal over a geographical indication register for traditionally made wines and spirits are entering a decisive phase at the World Trade Organisation. The talks have taken so long because there is a fundamental difference in approach between new world producers led by the US who want such a register to amount to no more than a kind of voluntary data-base and the Europeans who see it as a means of ensuring world-wide legal protection for traditional appellations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided not to seek a renewal of anti-dumping duties on farmed Atlantic salmon from Norway which are due to expire this month (April) and has decided against imposing similar duties on farmed salmon from the Faroes and Chile.…