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EXPORT TARGET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEWLY elected chairman of India’s Council for Leather Exports has given his country’s industry a target of exporting US$5 billion’s worth of leather goods by 2007. Shri S.S. Kumar said that his council had set a transitional target of US$3 billion exports by 2005, against the current level of US$2 billion.…
BENETTON TAGS
BY MARK ROWE
KNITWEAR giant Benetton is to employ ‘smart tag’ tracking technology with microchip transmitters that allow the company to trace garments at its stores from their point of manufacture to the moment they are sold.
Benetton’s Sisley line of clothing will contain a radio frequency ID tag that enables the retailer to learn the status of its inventory at a glance and make restocking decisions quickly.…
UZBEKISTAN - EBRD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the OPEC Fund are teaming up to lend US$13 million and US$5 million respectively to finance the construction of a knitwear plant in Chirchik, Uzbekistan, to manufacture high-quality knitted cotton garments (underwear, nightgowns and t-shirts) for export.…
SRI LANKA HIDES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SRI Lankan government should work with the country’s leather industry to improve the quality of raw hides, a national industry workshop has concluded. It heard that the trade in finished or semi-finished Sri Lankan leather was suffering because of poor hide standards.…
KYOTO FIGURES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) may pose as the globe’s environmental crusader, but the latest figures from the European Environment Agency (EEA) – for 2001 – have shown that for a second year running, EU greenhouse gas emissions have risen.…
WHITE CITY CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the British government to the European Court of Justice for failing to ensure that an environmental impact assessment has been carried out on a planned urban development project at White City, London. It involves the construction of a 60,000 m2 shopping and leisure centre with 16 hectares set aside for 4,500 car parking spaces.…
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT DATABASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) have developed a database containing information on environmental taxes, subsidies, tradable emission permits, and deposit refund systems in 43 countries. They want to help public authorities choose environmental policies by providing examples from around the world.…
DISEASE AGENCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is developing plans to set up a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which would coordinate efforts by European Union (EU) Member States to fight outbreaks of communicable viruses such as SARS.
In a speech to the European Parliament, EU health Commissioner David Byrne said that this would be “the most effective way to strengthen EU activities” against this disease and others such as TB.…
UNEP URANIUM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has said it wants to launch quickly into an analysis of sites in Iraq targeted with weapons containing depleted uranium (DU), now that the US-UK led invasion appears to be winding up.…
GMO CASES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is formally threatening France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria and Finland with legal action at the European Court of Justice over claims that they have failed to implement new EU regulations on the release of genetically modified organisms.…