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SATELLITE CENTRE
BY ALAN OSBORN
SPAIN has expressed concerns to European ministers about delays in transferring control of the civilian-military Torrejon satellite imaging centre, near Madrid, from the increasingly obsolete Western European Union defence organisation to the European Union, which is setting up its own rapid reaction force.…
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JOINT-INITIATIVE has been launched by the World Trade Organisation and the World Intellectual Property Organisation, to help least-developed countries establish effective intellectual property rights. Those poorest countries that are WTO members have until 2006 to meet commitments from the WTO agreement on trade-related intellectual property rights, (TRIPs), but this process has been difficult and expensive.…
GALILEO LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that a joint company is set up to manage the development of Galileo, the planned EU global positioning satellite. The company would also be responsible for raising investment from the public and private sector.…
OECD REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH schools have featured in an international study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which highlighted good practice examples of how sensitive building design can help education.
The report, Designs for Learning: 55 Exemplary Educational Facilities, looked at how technological change in learning techniques – such as the Internet – and in environmental requirements – such as energy efficiency – has been incorporated in new schools, universities and colleges.…
SHORT-CHAIN PARAFFIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved moves to ban short-chain chlorinated paraffin, (SCCP), from being used in leather finishing. The rule will be framed as an amendment to Directive 76/769/EEC on restrictions on the marketing and use of dangerous substances and preparations.…
ARGENTINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has called on the World Trade Organisation to arbitrate in a dispute with Argentina over the time that it has to implement an earlier ruling opposing Argentine tanning industry controls on the export of raw and semi-tanned bovine hides.…
TANNING COMPLEX
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A GIANT leather-tanning complex is to be set up at the cost of SL Rupees 24 billion at Bata Atha, Hungama, Sri Lanka. The project is being funded by private capital and aid, including payments from Norway.…
INDIA DUTY
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN Leather Garments Association has urged the Finance Ministry in New Delhi to mothball its recently announced reduced all-industry duty drawback rates, as far as the leather and leather product sector is concerned. It claimed that the new duty rates would “adversely affect” exports in India’s IND Rupees 18,000 million leather garment industry.…
MONTI , EDF ETC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN competition commissioner Mario Monti has complained that his hands are being tied by the weakness of European liberalisation legislation, a lack of will at Member State level to force through reforms and also the appetite of big players to press ahead with acquisitions.…
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PROGRAMME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TARGET of ensuring that 22 per cent of electricity generated within the European Union comes from renewable sources by the year 2010, has been written into the proposed European Environment Action Programme, by both the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers.…