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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced plans to lend up to Euro 30 million in debt financing to a Serbia & Montenegro retail group, enabling it to launch 31 new supermarkets in the next two years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SERBIA & Montenegro can resume shipping sugar to the EU at zero-rated tariffs, after establishing certification procedures preventing origin fraud that sparked the suspension of this trade privilege.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Euro 20 million to help American packaging giant the Ball Corporation build an aluminium can plant in Serbia. The plant is expected to focus on beverages, increasing competition in the sector, said an EBRD note.…

Keith Nuthall
GOVERNMENTS in south-eastern Europe have agreed it is “fundamentally important to increase and intensify interregional cooperation in air transport.” Such work, which would cover airport operations and air traffic control will be written into a detailed memorandum of understanding, with a detailed and timetabled work programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SERBIA & Montenegro can resume shipping sugar to the EU at zero-rated tariffs, after establishing certification procedures preventing origin fraud that sparked the suspension of this trade privilege.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has followed up support from its sister European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for improving air traffic control in Serbia & Montenegro. The EIB is planning to lend the Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services Agency up to Euro 36 million for rehabilitating and modernising the country’s ATC networks.…

Keith Nuthall
TRAINING for hundreds of officials in Serbia’s often hard pressed tax administration will begin imminently in a state-of-the-art instruction centre, the European Union’s (EU) European Agency for Reconstruction has announced. The Belgrade lecture centre and attached reference library is part of four such centres being funded by a Euro 13.4 million EU programme, said the agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE URGENCY of the need to create a hazardous waste disposal facility in Serbia – able to deal with the most toxic substances – has been underlined by the dumping of 24 barrels of carcinogenic liquid near Belgrade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 22 million to Serbia & Montenegro’s largest pharmaceutical producer Hemofarm a.d. to launch operations in Russia, its largest export market. The money will help Hemofarm buy new equipment and build a packaging and production pharmaceutical plant in Obninsk, 100 km south-west of Moscow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRAINING programme for Croatian judges and prosecutors has been launched involving the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), to enable some of its war crimes cases to be heard in Croatia. The move will help ease the workload of the United Nations-backed tribunal which has been given until 2010 to wind up, preferably by 2008.…