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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD’S first hydrogen fuel cell power plant to operate on coal mine methane gas has been launched in the United States. Based in Hopedale, Ohio, the 200-kilowatt Rose Valley power plant uses between 55,000 and 80,000 cubic feet per day of 42-47 per cent pure mine methane gas from an abandoned mine.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD’S first hydrogen fuel cell power plant to operate on coal mine methane gas has been launched in the United States. Based in Rose Valley, Hopedale, Ohio, the 200-kilowatt power plant uses between 55,000 and 80,000 cubic feet per day of 42-47 per cent pure mine methane gas from an abandoned mine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHOULD international organisations be held liable when they fail to achieve tasks set out in their formal objectives? The question has been posed by the United Nations’ (UN) International Law Commission and is currently being debated at the UN general assembly’s legal committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its strategy to kick-start the stalled World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round, offering to drop its insistence that deals on the protection of investment rights, competition and other financial matters be written into a final agreement.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States is to slap quota limits on imports of Chinese knitted fabrics, brassieres and dressing gowns, because it claims a surge in imports from China has disrupted its markets and could endanger US textile industry employment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$30 million to leading Ukraine poultry producer CJSC Myronivsky Khliboprodukt. The loan will support expansion and modernisation, involving improved efficiency, production capacity, and strengthened distribution. The company will expand its breeding and broiler farms, hatcheries, processing plants and set up a new feedmill.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL guidelines dealing with outbreaks of the livestock disease bluetongue are to be updated by the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, following its third global symposium on the subject, held in Sicily, Italy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved the accession of the EU as a full member of the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been negotiated between the European Commission and the United States that should create common pre-shipment clearance shipments for goods shipped between the European Union (EU) and the US. If EU ministers agree, it would tell European and American exporters to provide sufficient information about goods to allow “sophisticated targeting” of security checks, prior to shipping.…