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CEREALS INFO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is publishing online information on the EU cereals market. *http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/markets/crops/index_en.htm…
CANADA POULTRY BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the import into the EU of live poultry, poultry meat and products from Canada, following its bird flu outbreak.…
OLIVE OIL AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for EU member states to be given the right to pay all aid olive oil production subsidies as direct payments, unrelated to the olives grown and processed. The European Commission has proposed limiting these direct payments to 60 per cent of all subsidies.…
MERCURY - FISH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PREGNANT women and small children could suffer mercury poisoning from swordfish, tuna and other large predatory fish the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned.…
CITRUS SAFEGUARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed formal safeguard duties on EU imports of certain preserved citrus fruits – such as mandarins, tangerines and satsumas – of Euro 301 per tonne above set annual quotas, (of 31,420 for 2004). Brussels blames an import boom, damaging EU producers.…
DRAGLINE STUDY
BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S Cooperative Research Centre for Mining has invented a Dragline Dutymeter, which can help raise the operational capacity of a dragline by up to 25 per cent. It is an early warning system to alert operators in real time to actions, which can rapidly degrade the machine’s reliability.…
WASTE PLASTICS
BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN researchers are exploring the future use of waste plastics to help create fuel when combined with coal. The project at the Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development might be a solution to ridding the world of tonnes of plastic waste.…
INDIA COKE
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN government has been pushing Australian coking coal exporters to resume full deliveries to India’s steel sector, hit by these mining companies citing emergency contractual clauses to reduce supplies. New Delhi has sent high level officials to Australia to solve the problem; it says alternative sources of coking coal are unavailable, especially since China ceased exporting to fuel its own steel sector.…
EU COAL REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVELY gloomy forecast for the future of the European Union (EU) coal industry has been issued by the European Commission, underlining its determination to press for closures of most unprofitable mines to trim Brussels’ and Member States’ state aid budgets.…
RICHARDS BAY
BY RICHARD HURST
THE PROPOSED Rand 750 million (US$112 million) expansion of South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) is expected to proceed in March 2004, on conclusion of various agreements between key stakeholders Portnet, the port authority and Transnet, the country’s national transport utility.…