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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENGLISH lawyers would firmly oppose the establishment of EU legislation harmonising European contract law practice, claims the European Commission.

Releasing the results of wide-ranging consultation on four options for potential reform, Brussels said that the keenest opposition to EU legislation came from English lawyers, who “fear that the global significance of English common law would suffer.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation is investing US$10 million to develop the Etame offshore oil field in Gabon, channeling money through project operator, VAALCO Etame (Gabon) Inc., owned by Houston-based VAALCO Energy. Initial daily production of up to 15,000 barrels is expected in late 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation meeting has issued detailed recommendations on how to improve industrial relations in the oil and gas production and refining industries. The paper concludes that industrial relations in the sector will become more complex as it juggles environmental and social concerns with cost reduction.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has claimed that energy use is still rising in the European Union, mainly because of increasing transport consumption and has alleged that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions could return to their 1990 levels by the year 2010 unless Brussels and Member States take firm action; this would include promoting renewable energy, said the EEA.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AT FIRST sight, the European Commission’s new proposals for guarding against future outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, and tackling them if they do, occur seem eminently reasonable from the farmer’s point of view. Not a lot of detail is yet known, and in any event ministers will have their say, but it seems the Brussels authorities have learned the right lessons from last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation will provide US$30 million to help LASMO Oil Pakistan Ltd, a subsidiary of Lasmo plc, (acquired by Italy’s ENI SpA in 2001), to develop Pakistan’s Bhit natural gas field, 150 km north of Karachi, at a cost of US$283 million.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN consultancies Wardrop Engineering and Micon International are to offer joint advice on mining and metallurgical projects, from initial resource estimation, feasibility studies and operational analysis, to site closure. The two companies have decided they can work well together as their areas of expertise dovetail, rather than duplicate each other’s.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL maritime authorities have savaged Cambodia’s shipping safety record and called for its flag to be banned from all trade. At least 25 Cambodia-registered ships have been wrecked or stranded since 1995 and there have been a further 41 collisions, nine fires and 45 arrests, according to shipping-records collator, Seaway Data.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SLOWLY but surely, the world is becoming a little more open and honest in its business transactions. Bribery and corruption have existed as long as people have traded with each other and in some parts of the world remain as matter-of-fact as ever.…