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Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has drawn up global guidelines for customs officials worldwide, to promote the efficient and secure handling of containers at a time when controls are being tightened to fight terrorism. The advice has been submitted to the World Customs Organisation and national customs administrations; they include a checklist of good practice, such as greater reliance on sophisticated risk assessment and control techniques.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice against France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Italy, alleging that they have failed to write into their national legislation European Union rules limiting the working hours of seafarers on ships calling at EU ports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will stage a conference in May to discuss the consequences of the abolition of quotas under the WTO’s agreement on textile and clothing. This symposium – The Future of Textiles and Clothing Trade after 2005 – will be held in Brussels on May 5-6.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S four-day 18th International Leather Fair, in Chennai (Madras), this month (Feb) concluded INDRupees 5,090 million (US$106.8 million) worth of business, said its organisers. Staged at the Chennai Trade Centre, it attracted more than 8,000 visitors, said the Indian Trade Promotion Organisation, of whom five per cent were from abroad, including representatives from 20 countries, notably from Italy, Germany, Spain, Brazil and China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is investing Euro 7 million of new equity into in Dalkia Termika, the Polish subsidiary of France-based Dalkia International, which will make a further investment as a result. Its Polish business will develop energy installations in Poland, especially district heating projects, making them more efficient.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMING may be becoming increasingly high-tech, but somehow, it still seems rather odd to couple digging potatoes with launching shiny satellites into orbit around the Earth. But, in fact – as many British farmers well know – space technology has offered useful services to agriculture and will increasingly do so in the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL professionals across the European Union (EU) are to be asked whether they support the idea of creating a parallel body of European contract law that would exist alongside national legislation. The idea is to create a set of legal principles that are recognised across the EU as a tool by which cross-border disputes could be resolved, but which – unlike standard European legislation – would not supersede national rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESEARCH project funded by a European Commission Euro 1.62 million grant is to develop technology to install hydrogen fuel pumps in petrol stations by connecting them to a country’s existing natural gas supply network. The international Hydrofueler project – led by the University of Warwick – thinks that hydrogen can be crated form natural gas and delivered to cars via existing pipelines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is heading up a groundbreaking aid deal that will try to foster key local companies who will be responsible for maintaining and managing piplelines sending natural gas and oil from central Asia to the European Union.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States is offering to eliminate tariffs on imported mining equipment and unspecified "energy products" as part of their initial offer to create the proposed 34-country Free Trade Area of the Americas. Those sectors join a number of other goods, including steel, and environmental and wood products, for which Washington wants to offer duty free access to its markets under a reciprocal agreement, as well as improving market access for a range of services, including "energy services."…