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SPAIN - OIL SPILL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HALF-HEARTED efforts by European Union Member States to impose controls on shabby shipping have been blamed for the disastrous sinking of the ill-named Prestige oil tanker, off Galicia, Spain. Placing on record their disgust at the environmental tragedy, the Council of Europe’s environment committee deplored “the negligence of governments and their lack of any real determination to provide themselves with the means of preventing such disasters – or at least minimising their impact.”…
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BURIAL of carbon dioxide underground has been examined by an international workshop on reducing CO2 air emissions convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It debated good practice such as International Energy Agency sponsorship of projects dealing with the capture, transport and underground storage of CO2.…
TAIWAN FOOD INFORMATION
BY MARK ROWE
FAST food outlets in Taipei have started providing information about the nutritional value of the food they serve up as part of the city’s drive to slim down and get healthy. McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Asian chains Mos Burger and Yoshinoya started providing details of the calories, protein, fat and sugar contained in their food as a result of rules introduced by Taipei city health director Chiu Shu-ti.…
WTO ROUND GREENWATCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT might seem a long way from South Hams District Council’s public tendering process to world trade negotiations in Geneva, but thanks to the globalisation process that upsets so many protesters with metal rods stuck through their noses, the two are actually closely related.…
EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION is important in the provision of water services, whether that be to prevent the contamination of supplies by a return of this summer’s floods, or to source drinking water for arid areas where ground reserves are running dry.…
DOHA ROUND FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MAIN complaint of demonstrators with metal bars through their noses who harangue international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is that they allow important decisions to be taken in secret that are binding on democratically elected parliaments.…
SERVICES ROUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is considering a range of requests to liberalise its insurance sector under commitments it will make in a future World Trade Organisation (WTO) deal, following the ongoing so-called Doha Development Round.
These include calls for it to eliminate existing restrictions in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal on the cross-border supply of maritime and air transport insurance.…
CE MARK
BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN consumers are being ripped off by fraudsters making illegal use of the CE mark according to evidence submitted to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The CE mark denotes that a product was made in the European Union (EU) and conforms with EU safety legislation.…
SPACE DEAL
BY ALAN OSBORN
A TIE-UP between the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, could have important consequences for industrial insurance in the context of risk management and disaster control throughout Europe.…
OECD SHIPPING GUIDELINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the bill for cleaning up after the Prestige disaster grows larger and larger, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has committed itself to redoubling efforts to raise the standard of shipping amongst its developed country members.…