http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/index/uneThematique.asp?idThema=7 All information en http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=664&idThema=5 19/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=664&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=664&idThema=5 The DGCCRF (French General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control) has recently published the results of a 2006 monitoring programme that tested for the presence of... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=665&idThema=7 19/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=665&idThema=7 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=665&idThema=7 If the budget for 2009 submitted by the European Commission on Tuesday 6th May is approved ‘as is’, €14 billion will be allocated to the environment, which represents an increase of 0.8% on this year.... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=660&idThema=7 15/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=660&idThema=7 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=660&idThema=7 Stephen L. Johnson, the current Administrator of the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the first scientist to head this public body, was invited to address the French Institute of... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=661&idThema=6 15/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=661&idThema=6 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=661&idThema=6 While the next climate agreement is currently the subject of negotiations, and the terms of the next post-Kyoto climate agreement are not yet known, on Monday 28th April five finance institutions... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=662&idThema=5 15/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=662&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=662&idThema=5 France’s new Employment Code, which has taken the Ministry of Employment over three years to draw up, came into force on 1st May. The new Code is designed to be simpler and therefore easier to... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=658&idThema=2 14/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=658&idThema=2 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=658&idThema=2 On 2nd April, the European Commission decided to send a letter of formal notice to the French government concerning its failure to transpose the water framework directive (WFD). Most Member States are... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=659&idThema=3 14/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=659&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=659&idThema=3 In June, the European Commission may well submit to the European Council and Parliament a proposition to tax heavy goods vehicles in accordance with the pollution they emit, the traffic jams they... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=650&idThema=7 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=650&idThema=7 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=650&idThema=7 On 30th April, the French Minister for the Environment Jean-Louis Borloo introduced the Grenelle I draft law, which was also submitted to the Economic and Social Council (CES). The schedule and... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=651&idThema=3 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=651&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=651&idThema=3 Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Christine Todd Whitman, at the time Head of the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), reassured the people living near the smoking... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=653&idThema=6 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=653&idThema=6 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=653&idThema=6 While it may not be a border tax to prevent environmental dumping by countries less scrupulous than EU Member States, it certainly resembles one. The European Union is contemplating making imports of... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=654&idThema=3 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=654&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=654&idThema=3 When the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Swiss President Pascal Couchepin met on 29th April, they announced the launch of a new campaign to measure noise pollution, and the reinstatement of a... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=655&idThema=4 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=655&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=655&idThema=4 Eight years after the European directive was voted, and two years after the start of the activity in France, the end of life vehicle recycling industry seems at last to be revving up: the Environment... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=652&idThema=4 06/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=652&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=652&idThema=4 To attempt to reduce the mountain of waste created by babies’ nappies and adult incontinence products, the majority of which go to landfill, the United Kingdom is about to acquire its first recycling... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=647&idThema=5 05/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=647&idThema=5 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=647&idThema=5 In France, discussions regarding the classification of psychosocial disorders as occupational diseases have reignited the debate on how the occupational disease tables are compiled. The process lacks... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=648&idThema=2 05/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=648&idThema=2 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=648&idThema=2 During a conference organized by the European Water Forum on April 16 in Brussels, experts from several European and Middle Eastern countries discussed the actions to be rolled out to combat water... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=649&idThema=6 05/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=649&idThema=6 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=649&idThema=6 The future of wind power lies in the sea. The French professional wind power association "France Energie Eolienne" estimates that 6000 Megawatts will be installed at sea by 2020, i.e. 1000 wind... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=645&idThema=7 02/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=645&idThema=7 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=645&idThema=7 Over half of the 1,600 scientists working at the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who replied to a questionnaire sent to 5,400 of them by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) declare... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=646&idThema=4 02/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=646&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=646&idThema=4 production in the United States. The study was published recently in Environmental Science and Technology. As in the European Union, food is transported over long distances in the United States – over... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=641&idThema=3 17/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=641&idThema=3 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=641&idThema=3 As promised in June 2007, France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has now stated the terms for drawing up a sustainable development charter for Paris’s Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. However, the... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=642&idThema=4 17/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=642&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=642&idThema=4 Over the last 10 years, the world’s waste incineration capacity has increased from 160 million to 200 million tonnes per year, and should continue to rise over the next five years to reach 240 million...