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BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Vsampo-Avisma Group, Europe’s top titanium producer, is planning to sell as much as 27 per cent of its stock at an initial public offering on foreign exchanges. Moscow-based Troika Dialog brokerage will advise on the sale, according to Vsmpo-Avisma’s deputy general director Vyacheslav Bresht.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

Keith Nuthall
NORWAY, Iceland and Liechtenstein will become de facto members of the European Union’s European Maritime Safety Agency, sitting as non-voting members of its board. These three European Economic Area states of the European Free Trade Area aim to have “broad participation” in agency work, offering – they claim – “considerable knowledge and experience in…safety at sea and the prevention of pollution from ships.”…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA lost RM1.2 billion (US$350 million) in tax revenue last year as a result of an increase in trade in contraband and counterfeit cigarettes. The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry said smugglers were exploiting poor enforcement at major ports in both the north and south of the country to bring in contraband and counterfeit cigarettes.…

BY PHILIP FINE

UNEXPECTEDLY large numbers of American households have signed onto an official USA registry of consumers unwilling to accept calls from telephone marketers. The Federal Trade Commission now has a list of over 23 million phone numbers registered and expects it to reach 60 million.…

Keith Nuthall
NORWAY, Iceland and Liechtenstein will become de facto members of the European Union’s European Maritime Safety Agency, sitting as non-voting members of its board. These three European Economic Area states of the European Free Trade Area aim to have “broad participation” in agency work, offering – they claim – “considerable knowledge and experience in…safety at sea and the prevention of pollution from ships.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has ruled that national judicial inquiries within the EU and EFTA may approve applications to ban parallel medicine importers from reusing a manufacturer’s trademark, while adding stripes to labelling to show the product is a re-export.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GURANTEE issued to American drug company deCODE Genetics Inc by the Icelandic government regarding a US$200 million bond is being investigated by the European Free Trade Area Surveillance Authority because of concerns that the move may break European state aid rules.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN a push to promote American agricultural products overseas, the country’s Department of Agriculture is giving US$110 million (GBPounds 67 million) to 65 American trade organisations. One fifth of the money will go to the various regional trade associations, while the US Meat Export Federation, will receive US$10 million and several citrus promoters will be given US$6 million to promote their products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CLEARER picture of the international funds and cooperation deals required to boost the reliance of the world on renewable energy sources has emerged from the first conference of the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition. The 80-country organisation – established at the city’s world summit on sustainable development last year – forged a consensus on the shape of financial instruments that could promote green energy worldwide.…