The mining industry and the two levels of government have worked constructively together on understanding, reducing, predicting, and monitoring the environmental effects of mine tailings and mine liquid effluent through programs such as the mine environmental neutral drainage program, which is a research program designed to understand and manage the problems of acid rock drainage; the AQUAMIN multi-stakeholder process, which was an effort to understand the environmental effects of mining and to identify how to reduce them essentially ...[+++] to zero; and the aquatic effects technology evaluation program, which was designed to discover more efficient ways of actually monitoring those effects in the environment.

Since the authorisation of use of Curcumin (E 100), Riboflavins (E 101), Cochineal, Carminic acid, Carmines (E 120), Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins (E 141), Plain caramels (E 150a), Vegetable carbon (E 153), Carotenes (E 160a), Paprika extract, capsanthin, capsorubin (E 160c), Beta-apo-8’-carotenal (C 30) (E 160e), Beetroot Red, betanin (E 162), Anthocyanins (E 163), Titanium dioxide (E 171), Iron oxides and hydroxides (E 172), Extracts of rosemary (E 392), Phosphoric acid – phosphates – di-, tri- and polyphosphates (E 338 - 452) and Saccharin and its Na, K and Ca salts (E 954) in seaweed based fish roe analogues con ...[+++]stitutes an update of that list which is not liable to have an effect on human health, it is not necessary to seek the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority.

2. Member States and the Commission shall encourage media service providers to develop codes of conduct regarding inappropriate audiovisual commercial communication, accompanying or included in children's programmes, of foods and beverages containing nutrients and substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, in particular those such as fat, trans-fatty acids, salt/sodium and sugars, excessive intakes of which in the overall diet are not recommended.

This is to look at the greenhouse gas sources and sinks associated with hydro dam construction, as well as other impacts on aquatic systems, like nutrient loading and acid rain and the effects of acid rain nutrients, as well as hydro reservoirs.

These objectives will be delivered in stages, and will make it possible to protect EU citizens from exposure to particulate matter and ozone in air, and protect European ecosystems more effectively from acid rain, excess nutrient nitrogen, and ozone

This second report further confirmed the adverse effects of trans fatty acids on health (1110) This caused a strong and increasing political desire for a rapid phase-out of industrially produced trans fatty acids, and a new proposal setting limits for the content of trans fatty acids was drafted and sent to the commission in 2002.