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BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo
As the world’s third biggest energy consumer after the United States and China, Japan has long been concerned with its lack of self-sufficiency in power generation. The low level of food self-sufficiency (40%), which has always been something of a national obsession, looks positively healthy when compared to the 16% level for energy.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
FIFTY years ago, the signing of the Euratom Treaty ushered in a system of European non-proliferation controls designed to prevent nuclear-associated technology being exploited for the illicit production of nuclear weaponry. And today, after the anniversary of the three agreements signed on March 25, 1957 that gave the European Communities – later the European Union (EU) – their legal basis, that ‘dual-use technology’ system continues to be refined.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Dubai
THE UNITED Arab Emirates’ (UAE) US$310 million tobacco market is set to grow by 8% this year on the back of population growth, tourism and a strong economy, but the sector faces sizeable problems with illicit trade that accounts for as much as 33% of the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally established the EU agency that will handle the EU’s participation in the ITER international fusion project. Called the European Domestic Agency, it will be based in Barcelona, Spain, has a current budget of Euro 9.6 billion, and has been authorised to work for 35 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FLEET managers suffering from car thefts might think their vehicles are sold in a nearby city, or neighbouring region. No so, says global police agency Interpol – they could well end up on another continent. It recently coordinated controls of more than 8,000 vehicles in Africa’s Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad, and found 14 had been stolen “mostly from Europe and Japan.”…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
TASTES and trends come and go in cosmetics sectors, but the Japanese cosmetics market is arguably the most volatile of them all. With as many as 1,000 companies vying for a slice of the action – ranging from domestic names that have projected themselves around the world to foreign corporations bringing the chic of Paris or New York and small-scale specialists – the personal care products industry here needs to be constantly evolving.…

BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the prime motivations for Japan Tobacco’s takeover of Gallaher Group was to help the company establish a presence in Western Europe, where it figures only slightly. But the most seismic effects of the takeover may well be felt in neighbouring Russia, the world’s third largest cigarette market, where two thirds of men and a third of women are smokers, prices are low despite hikes in excise duties, and the habit has little of the social stigma attached to it in the US and Britain.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PAINT and coatings manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region could be storing up trouble for themselves if they fail to grasp and act on the full implications of the European Union’s (EU) newly minted REACH system for classifying and labelling chemicals.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s proposal to simplify the organisation for milk and dairy products, announced last month, is already having profound effects on the industry says Dr Joop Kleibeuker, Secretary General of the Brussels-based European Dairy Association in an exclusive interview with just-food.com.…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul
LAST October, South Korea was admitted as an observer to the world’s premier group of money laundering fighters – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and given the nation’s recent moves to strengthen its anti-money laundering regime its path to full membership in approximately two years appears smooth.…