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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ALARMING 20.3% of European Union (EU) laying hen poultry flocks are infected with salmonella, a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) report has warned. The Czech Republic (62.5%), Poland (55.9%), Spain (51.6%), Lithuania (50%) and Portugal (47.7%) have the most serious problems.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ALARMING 20.3% of European Union (EU) laying hen poultry flocks are infected with salmonella, a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) report has warned. Britain cannot be complacent under the report, based on 2004-5 data, with 8% of flocks stricken with salmonella.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

European investment in renewable energy will exceed $60 billion by 2011, excluding large-scale hydroelectricity, predicts Emerging Energy Research (EER) a research and advisory company based in Spain and the United States. The firm says that the top 20 utilities have already set aside $13.3 billion for renewable energy ventures – "primarily onshore wind farms but also offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, solar, biomass and small-scale hydroelectric projects."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to the scientific basis and transparency of decisions on approving or banning genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foodstuffs. This follows concerns from member states that too many GM products are being approved for sale in the European Union (EU).…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN researchers are helping build a biodiesel plant in Hangzhou, China. The universities of Milan, Jaen (in Spain), and Cordoba are working with China’s University of Tianjin and the University of Malaya to build a plant fuelled by locally available animal or vegetable matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SPANISH government has been given two months by the European Commission to say how it will implement a key European Union (EU) copyright law, or face legal action maybe resulting in massive daily recurring fines. Madrid has failed to comply with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) order to write into its national statute book the 2001 copyright directive, which updates EU legislation considering digital technology.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has taken another step towards securing valuable fishing rights for its fleets in the Pacific, with the EU Council of Ministers approving an access agreement with Micronesia. For nine years, Spanish and Portuguese longliners along with Spanish and French freezer seiners will be able to fish the archipelago’s rich tuna fishing grounds north of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is expanding the European Union’s (EU) international trial of hydrogen vehicles beyond the ongoing successful CUTE bus project that has involved London. It has announced two fresh projects: ZERO REGIO running eight fuel-cell passenger cars in Frankfurt and Mantova; and HyCHAIN:MINITRANS operating 158 small transport vehicles (minivans, minibuses, scooters, cargo bicycles and wheel chairs) in France, Germany, Spain and Italy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the acquisition of joint control of Spain’s Tele Pizza by Britain’s Permira Holdings Ltd and Spain’s Carbal.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is predicting that it will spend Euro 86.9 million more than the Euro 1.49 billion budgeted for 2006 wine production subsidies. In a report to MEPs and ministers, the Commission claimed that this "over-implementation is temporary" and that "it is mainly due to the payments arising from the crisis distillations…earlier in the budget year."…