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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and Norway have divided up common stocks within the North Sea for 2006, overcoming difficult conservation problems, especially regarding cod. Brussels and Oslo have agreed on a long-term management plan for cod, to come into effect when the stock has returned to safe biological levels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPANISH cava maker Castellblanch has failed in an attempt at the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance to secure European Union-wide trademark rights to a castle logo, with the words ‘cristal’ and ‘castellblanch’. This was opposed by France’s Champagne Louis Roederer which claimed it would be confused with its own ‘cristal’ mark.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned that the use of lycopene obtained from Blakeslea trispora as a food colouring may be unsafe. Its scientific panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has noted that it could increase exposure compared with "mean intake from natural dietary sources by a considerable margin".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has highlighted Britain, Germany, Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria, and the only European Union (EU) countries offering drug addiction programmes for young offenders. These countries, its 2005 annual report noted approvingly, have "selective prevention programmes for first-time offenders (largely cannabis users), offering psychological support, training and counselling."…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

SINCE March 2005, Operation White Whale, an extensive international anti-money-laundering operation spearheaded by the Spain’s National Police (the Policia Nacional), has produced the arrest of 57 people and the laundering of at least Euro 250 million euros obtained through illegal drug trafficking, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry (Ministerio del Interior).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations General Assembly has voted to create a new remembrance day in November for road traffic victims, who are regularly more numerous than deaths caused by wars or civil strife. Indeed, 1.2 million people are killed annually in road accidents, says the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than the population of Estonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched a research project developing a virtual-reality unit, training construction workers in using potentially dangerous heavy plant, without the risk of injuring their co-workers. Researchers from Spain, Germany, France, Slovakia, Poland, Portugal and Italy are designing a computer-aided training programme, involving a virtual-reality platform or cabin with controls mirroring those on real-life equipment plant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about delays in the implementation of a major piece of European Union (EU) environmental legislation have sparked a review by the European Commission, and will encourage it to pursue legal action in the courts. The law in question is the 1996 integrated pollution prevention and control directive, which insists large EU industrial and agricultural installations obtain operating permits – issued only if the best available techniques on controlling emissions are in use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched a research project aimed at developing a virtual-reality unit, training construction workers in using potentially dangerous heavy plant, without the risk of injuring their co-workers. Researchers are currently designing a computer-aided training programme, an electronic simulator, and even a virtual-reality platform or cabin allowing workers to use controls mirroring those on a piece of plant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST-EVER multilateral treaty covering the Balkans has been signed in Athens, creating a European Energy Community, linking the gas (and electricity) policies of south-eastern Europe with those of the European Union (EU). Indeed, under the treaty, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo must apply EU energy legislation, including related environmental and competition laws.…