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INTEGRATED TANNERIES
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government is to launch pilot projects setting up large-scale “integrated” tanneries, offering a wide range of products and services, under its 10th Five Year Plan goal of boosting leather exports. Its aim is to boost economies of scale, sharpening global competitiveness.…
DUTY CUT
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN Council for Leather Exports is lobbying its government to allow the duty-free free import of “essential inputs” and a cut in duty on machinery parts, to boost exports. Notably, it wants duty-free import for inputs for manufacturing safety shoes and boots, winter-lined work gloves, saddlery items, packaging materials and trade samples.…
BATA SHOES
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE BATA Shoe Organisation has been invited to take part in the Calcutta Leather Complex, the West Bengal press has reported. State chief minister Buddadeb Bhattacharjee has said that Bata would be welcome to take advantage of the complex’s exporting and manufacturing facilities for leather goods.…
ANDHRA PRADESH
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE GOVERNMENT of Andhra Pradesh, India, wants to establish 94 leather-based industrial parks. These would include mini 25-acre sites focusing on raw materials processing, medium 100-acre sites handle semi-finished leather, finished leather and part-finished products, plus mega 300-acre sites, for creating export quality products.…
TAIWAN WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TAIWANESE government has followed up its admission to the World Trade Organisation by telling the institution’s Textile Monitoring Body how it intends to implement the first three stages of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, with which it must now comply.…
GAS FORUM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEETING of gas industry representatives, regulators and consumers from across the European Union has agreed good practice guidelines for third party access to the EU’s gas transmission network, a move that the European Commission has hailed as “significant progress in creating a single internal market for gas.”…
WATER POLLUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER States of the European Union have been accused of dragging their feet while implementing 1976 a directive on the discharge of dangerous substances, which includes a comprehensive list of pollutants that should be removed from water sources.…
CLEAN OCEANS GREEN WATCH
BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE SEAS around Australia are among the cleanest in the world, partly thanks to the ingenuity of local scientists, who are pioneering two projects to ensure local waters remain healthy, while assisting other more stressed ocean regions.
One involves an electronic mapping system developed by the Australian Marine Safety Authority (AMSA), which is being used to predict the effects of dangerous chemicals in the ocean.…
FRANCE - ENERGY
BY ALAN OSBORN
A PARTIAL agreement on the opening of France’s highly protected energy markets appears to have been the main achievement by EU leaders at their summit in Barcelona this weekend (March 15-16th); importantly, France won an assurance that it could protect disadvantaged citizens and rural areas from the effects of liberalisation.…
ECJ CASES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN is to be taken to the European Court of Justice over two allegations that it has broken European waste laws and one that it has broken the EU drinking water directive.
The government will have to defend its implementation of the hazardous waste directive, which the Commission claims has been incorrect, notably regarding its official definition of the waste controlled by its rules.…