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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) institutions and national governments must take a proactive role to publicise the usefulness and availability of intelligent transport systems, to boost demand and ultimately lower costs, members of the European Parliament say.

Its transport committee has backed a detailed report warning that despite the sophistication and proven worth in safety terms of in-vehicle intelligent systems, European "penetration rates remain very low in relation to their potential."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH government has opposed Polish government proposals for introducing export refunds to promote European Union (EU) pigmeat sales abroad, despite recent London demonstrations by UK pork producers. Around 200 pig rearers picketed the 10 Downing Street residence of prime minister Gordon Brown earlier this month, protesting at low prices paid by supermarkets.…

By Alan Osborn

The European Commission believes that the proposed acquisition by the Austrian oil and gas group OMV of the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL "may raise competition concerns in a number of markets." Brussels has ordered an "in-depth" investigation of the deal and will make a decision within 90 days.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE raft of new legislation designed to force the European Union (EU) into further reducing its greenhouse gas emissions has been tabled by the European Commission. As expected, it has proposed targets that biofuels command 10% of the EU’s liquid fuel consumption by 2020.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has shown how it intends to pump money into boosting European Union biofuel production capacity, with a planned Euro 41.5 million loan to Hungarian manufacturer Tempora Bioenergia Zrt. It proposes using the funds to build two oil mills and an attached biodiesel refinery with a 100,000 tonnes per annum production capacity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) protected designation of origin (PDO) system that defends EU traditional drinks from being copied outside their home region has been weakened. The European Court of Justice has ruled in a case involving German generic ‘Parmesan’ cheese, official consumer watchdogs to not have to enforce these rules for imported products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) protected designation of origin (PDO) system that defends scores of EU traditional drinks from being copied outside their home region has been weakened. The European Court of Justice has ruled official consumer watchdogs have no legal duty to police these rules for imported products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has added to its protected traditional designations list Portuguese ‘Transmontano’ pork products; Hungarian salami from Szeged; Italian Pecorino di Filiano cheese, Spain’s Cereza del Jerte cherries, Lenteja Pardina de Tierra de Campos lentils and Garbanzo de Fuentesaúco chickpeas; Cyprus’ Loukoumi Geroskipou confectionary; and Slovakia’s Skalický trdelník patisserie products.…

BY Monica Dobie

A Hungarian university has shown that computer programmes and algorithms can accurately classify different types of dog barks, and in some instances better than trained dog lovers, according to new research published in the journal Animal Cognition.

Lead researcher, Csaba Molnár and his team from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary analysed 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations: ‘stranger’, ‘fight’, ‘walk’, ‘alone’, ‘ball’ and ‘play’.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A NEW study has shown that computer programmes and algorithms can accurately classify different types of dog barks, and in some instances better than trained dog lovers, according to new research published in the journal Animal Cognition.

Lead researcher, Csaba Molnár and his team from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary analysed 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations: ‘stranger’, ‘fight’, ‘walk’, ‘alone’, ‘ball’ and ‘play’.…