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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have ordered that new textile trade agreements agreed last month between the European Commission and Cambodia and Nepal be provisionally implemented from January 1, pending formal ratification. All parties have agreed they should last until December 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have ordered that new textile trade agreements agreed between the European Commission and Cambodia and Nepal be provisionally implemented from January 1, pending formal ratification. All parties agree they should last until December 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOVE of the secretariat of the International Cocoa Organisation to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from London, has been postponed because of the political and military turmoil in the country. The decision to go ahead with the move had only been taken this May.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESTRICTED trade in knitted products from wool culled from captured wild vicuna in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile has been approved by a conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation has launched a livestock census in Afghanistan, a key part of its plan to rehabilitate the country’s meat production sector. FAO officials will visit more than 30,000 villages and farming communities over the coming months to collate detailed information on animal numbers and livestock production practices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUCCESSFUL negotiations between the European Commission and Nepal and Cambodia have led to an extension of existing textile trade agreements between these Asian kingdoms and the European Union (EU) until December 2004. These list products – including wool – that can be imported into the EU without quota limits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed by an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference, held in London, aims at reducing the industry’s exposure to terrorist attacks and resulting damage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has speeded up its establishment of a European Maritime Safety Agency, which has been delayed because of disagreements within the EU Council of Ministers over the seat of its secretariat. As a result, the Commission has convened the inaugural meeting of the agency’s administrative board in its own Brussels offices, without waiting for a decision on where the organisation will be houses.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S now official. Following agreement this week by its environment ministers, the European Union (EU) is to set up a market to trade pollution permits for carbon dioxide (CO2), the main so-called greenhouse gas, starting in 2005.

The European Commission is delighted, business is pleased, and while not all environmentalists are overjoyed, the balance of opinion among them is clearly favourable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has authorised the European Commission to open negotiations with Vietnam on updating the 1992 EU-Vietnamese Bilateral Agreement on Trade in Textile and Clothing Products, which was last amended in 2000.…