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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL accord providing for joint-research projects on transport air pollution has been struck by the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan and China. Aimed at creating a global system to measure such emissions, the deal will provide for joint vehicle testing and should lead to the next generation of European emission standards for passenger cars and light vans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has lost its appeal against a WTO ruling that ruled its quarantine measures on imported apples from the USA could not be legally justified on health grounds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers is poised this Thursday (27 Nov) to choose a preferred candidate as a site for the ITER international fusion reactor prototype. Assessments of the two competing EU sites Cadarache in France and Vandellós in Spain have failed to choose clearly between the two, making it unlikely that a consensus will emerge.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THREE years after it was launched by the London-based European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA), the new procedure for the designation of orphan drugs and for assisting in their development is widely judged a success though there remain serious questions over actually getting the authorised drugs to patients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARENA of occupational health concerns is constantly expanding beyond the immediate workplace and one area of particular interest that is currently under wide discussion at the European Union is road safety. Proposals are being debated that will not only affect the technical design of vehicles, but also on road safety checks by public authorities and compensation available from insurance payouts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Bank report has lauded the growth of the so-called ‘sustainable coffee’ market as a means to raise the low prices commanded by the commodity. “The State of Sustainable Coffee: A Study of Twelve Major Markets” calls for the acceptance of price premiums for ‘fair trade’ and organic smallholder produced coffee.…

SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A SHOE making cooperative in India has shown how a niche brand can seize up-market export sales by exploiting elaborate and imaginative designs. The Toe Hold Artisans Collaborative, Karnataka, exported US$60,000 of its lines to Italy, Australia, Japan and Sweden in 2002-3, and is targeting US$100,000 sales this financial year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has bit the bullet and drawn up plans to lend US$250 million to help build the planned key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.…