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BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNESCO, the UN’s scientific and cultural organisation, has launched a filter removing arsenic from water and which could, it claims, save tens of millions of lives from a pollutant created by many mines. Unveiled at its headquarters in Paris, UNESCO said the filter was “simple and ecologically sound”, using as an absorbent recycled iron oxide coated sand produced as a by-product in groundwater treatment plants “available at no cost almost everywhere”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNESCO, the UN’s scientific and cultural organisation, has launched a filter removing arsenic from water and which could save tens of millions of lives. Unveiled at its headquarters in Paris, UNESCO said the filter was “simple and ecologically sound”, using as an absorbent recycled iron oxide coated sand produced as a by-product in groundwater treatment plants “available at no cost almost everywhere”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONG-RUNNING World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations over creating a geographical indications register for wines and spirits have taken a turn for the worse, a feat barely imaginable considering the talks’ snail-like progress. A special meeting of the WTO Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) council ended in deadlock, with the usual two camps sticking to their guns over whether the register should have legal teeth or not.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
PROPOSALS for a new European Union (EU) wine regime, which are currently under review, will be unveiled in 12 months’ time according to the recently installed European Commissioner for agriculture, Mrs Mariann Fischer Boel.

In a wide-ranging interview in her Brussels office she admitted that the present arrangements are not working.…

BY LIZ HALL
SPAIN’S paint and coating industry has every right to be self-congratulatory at present: the widespread investment and business improvements of recent years have paid off with the sector securing a well-earned place alongside its counterparts elsewhere in the developed world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HONDURAS has won a disputes case at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with the Dominican Republic being ruled in breach of WTO rules by unfairly restricting the import of Honduran cigarettes. A disputes panel found fault with a special foreign exchange fee, an “economic stabilisation surcharge” and an insistence that importers physically fix within the Dominican Republic tax stamps to packs.…

Keith Nuthall
UNUSUAL frank pessimism has been voiced by diplomats about securing an agreement at the long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on creating a multilateral register for geographical indications on wines and spirits. Officials have said that the supporters of legal powers protecting traditional terms, (led by the EU), “remain far apart” from those calling for a voluntary ‘guidance’ register, (headed by the USA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNUSUALLY frank pessimism has been voiced by diplomats about securing an agreement at the long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on creating a multilateral register for geographical indications on wines and spirits. Officials told the Drinks Bulletin that supporters of legal powers protecting traditional terms, (led by the EU), “remain far apart” from the proponents of a voluntary ‘guidance’ register, (headed by the USA).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to investigate alleged increased shipments of farmed Atlantic salmon into the European Union (EU) to see if temporary protective safeguard duties should be erected. The probe follows complaints by Britain and Ireland who said imports of farmed salmon, mainly from Norway, and to a lesser extent from the Faeroe Islands and Chile, had increased by 14.7 per cent in January-September 2003 compared to the same period in 2002.…