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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL conference is being staged in Brussels this week, which will examine how to create realistic risk perceptions about controversial subjects, where public concern can significantly influence democratic government policies. The European Commission organised event will especially focus on food safety, where fears about biotechnology – especially on genetically modified foodstuffs – have forced European Union (EU) institutions and governments to take a very cautious stance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S legitimate tobacco trade may face a renewed increase in black-market supplies, if renewed pressure from the European Commission on the British government to reduce customs seizures of EU-duty-paid tobacco is successful.

The Commission has started formal European law infringement proceedings against the UK, seemingly unimpressed by concessions from its government over the amounts of tobacco and alcohol that can be imported from other member countries for personal use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLAN to improve the flow of natural gas into London through a new LNG import terminal at Kent’s Isle of Grain port is being supported by a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan of up to Euro 30 million.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THREE years after it was launched by the London-based European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA), the new procedure for the designation of orphan drugs and for assisting in their development is widely judged a success though there remain serious questions over actually getting the authorised drugs to patients.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
250 words, DM Pounds 48, plus expenses: Train/tube travel from Honor Oak Park to Piccadilly return on 4 November: ?6.20, Phone card ?5 (Tickets should come in post – if not – can you ask Deirdre if she’s sending them in – of not, just send in the claim anyway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PLAN to improve the flow of natural gas into London through a new LNG import terminal at Kent’s Isle of Grain port is being supported by a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan of up to Euro 30 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BIOCHEMICAL threat posed by algal blooms is the marine equivalent of a Victorian pea-souper London fog, only one that was a living organism, sucking oxygen from the air, killing thousands of people. Nitrogen and phosphates leaching into the sea from farms and industrial air pollution are ideal food for single-celled phytoplankton, or algae, which reproduce madly in the abundant sunshine of Europe’s increasingly warm summers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has warned that fraudsters are deceiving the customers of Channel Island banks into providing personal banking information by intercepting correspondence and inserting doctored tax collection forms. These counterfeit Form R105’s are based on legitimate British Inland Revenue forms, but solicit more details then the originals and have – of course – a fake return address.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African mining company AngloGold has stated that if it wins the bidding war for Ashanti Goldfields in Ghana it would immediately invest US$190 million to fund the capital requirements of the mine in the Obuasi region. Jonathan Best, AngloGold chief financial officer, highlighted the difference between AngloGold’s recapitalisation plans with that of London Stock Exchange listed Randgold of US$170 million over the next 30 years, (included in a total package of US$1 billion over 51 years).…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WHAT price safety? Ports and shippers racing to comply with an extremely tight deadline to meet the new International Marine Organisation security requirements are still not sure what the final bill will be. However, with the newly added SOLAS (safety of life at sea convention) special measures and the also new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code due to come into effect on 1 July 2004, those who are not already well down the line to meeting the requirements will find the costs rising sharply as demand for security services steps up.…