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BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVISIONS to a European nuclear energy liability convention will increase the total accident compensation available from operators in 15 countries to Euro 1.5 billion, up from Euro 350 million. Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have now signed the Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FIFTY years after the turn of the tide in the Second World War, the European Parliament is calling for the creation of a comprehensive international legal system to identify the whereabouts of artworks looted by the Nazis, fairly settling ownership and compensation claims.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A SIGNIFICANT easing of the regulations covering the use in the European Union (EU) of “traditional expressions” by wine producers from outside the EU has been announced by the European Commission, over the strong objections of Italy. In future the non-EU producers will be allowed to use traditional expressions that had been banned to them in the past, such as ‘vin jaun’, ‘amarone’, ‘amontillado’, ‘claret’ and ‘ruby’, provided they satisfy the Commission and Member States that a number of conditions have been met.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament agriculture committee has called for European Union (EU) member governments to have the freedom to link up to 70 per cent of tobacco growing subsidies to production, which would demolish the European Commission’s plans to phase out these supports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REVISIONS to a European nuclear energy liability convention will increase the total accident compensation available from operators in 15 countries to Euro 1.5 billion, up from Euro 350 million. Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have now signed the Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention.…

Keith Nuthall
BINGE drinking is on the increase amongst young people in the existing European Union (EU), the European Economic Area and countries that becoming members in May, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The EU agency noted from the latest available comparative figures that the proportion of 15-16-year-olds indulging in binge drinking (consuming five or more drinks in a row) rose from 47 to 57 per cent in Ireland during the late 1990s and from 37 to 50 per cent in Norway.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE CONTINUING threat posed by asbestos to the health of workers in the European construction industry is to be a major focus of the Bilbao-based European Agency for Health and Safety at Work (EASHW) this year. Andrew Smith, spokesman for the agency, told the NetRisk that while the use of asbestos in new construction was now illegal throughout the European Union (EU), the material was still present in older buildings, posing a particular danger to builders and others involved in renovation work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STENCH from liquid waste is rarely pleasant, especially for nearby residential areas, so technology from a European Union (EU) funded project will be welcome, if its developers deliver a claim it can reduce such disgusting odours by 95 per cent.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US airport is working on an agreement with a German company to jointly run a baggage-handling operation that they can market to local airlines. Jacksonville International Airport and Fraport AG – the Frankfurt-based company that owns and operates that city’s airport – would save airlines the expense of hiring workers and buying equipment needed to move bags to and from aircraft.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AT least 22.5 per cent by weight of plastic packaging and packaging waste will have to be recycled from the end of 2008 in most European Union (EU) Member States, under an agreement reached between the European Parliament and the EU council of Ministers.…