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EU

EU directives on the liberalization of the electricity and gas market

– 21st Jan 2008

Hardly any industry in Europe is undergoing such drastic changes as the utilities industry. The EU directives on the liberalization of the electricity and gas market require huge investments.

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EU Twinning Agreement for waste management

– 21st Jan 2008

The technical and legal knowledge of how Malta manages some of its waste streams has been revolutionised thanks to a twinning project with Austria which ran for 21 months. The EU-funded twinning project, which was part of the 2005 National Transition Facility Programme for Malta, came to an end today following a closing workshop presenting the results.

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HP, L’Oreal, Pepsi and others ask suppliers for emissions data

– 21st Jan 2008 by Sarah Whitworth

Hewlett Packard, L’Oreal, PepsiCo, and Reckitt Benckiser have joined the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, which wants to create a single standardized approach to measuring the carbon footprint of supply chains.

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2008 could be tipping point for voluntary carbon markets

– 16th Jan 2008

There remains a huge untapped potential in the voluntary carbon markets waiting to be explored. Year 2008 could very well be the tipping point for the voluntary carbon markets

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Too much power squandered

– 15th Jan 2008

The closure of our post offices is imminent because Brussels’ intention was for our postal service through various EU directives to be a “community postal” service.

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EU pricing and reimbursement for medical devices and diagnostics 2006

– 15th Jan 2008

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79408) has announced the addition of EU Pricing and Reimbursement for Medical Devices and Diagnostics 2006 Report to their offering.

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Support for biofuels risks failing to deliver significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions

– 15th Jan 2008

The UK government’s support for biofuels risks failing to deliver significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and could be environmentally damaging, the Royal Society, the UK’s leading scientific academy, said yesterday, writes Ed Crooks . The society called on the UK and the EU to reform biofuels policy to give more support to fuels that delivered greater cuts in emissions.

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Shopkeeper penalised for her imperial measures

– 15th Jan 2008

Britain’s latest “Metric Martyr” - under EU directives compelling Britain to use only the metric system of weights and measures.

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Cancer research threatened by too much management and excessive regulation

– 15th Jan 2008

The fundamental ethos and creativity of cancer research is threatened by too much management and excessive regulation, says a Keynote Comment in The Lancet Oncology, January 2008 issue. The Comment also adds that there is a serious lack of regulation harmonization between countries, a recent blog reports.

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