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VOC EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed an overhaul of European Union legislation regulating the use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in decorative paints, varnishes and car refinishing lines, insisting on tighter and more sophisticated limits for emissions of pollutants from these products.…
IRELAND - KYOTO - IRISH KYOTO COST
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE IRISH government has been calculating the cost of introducing a carbon tax to fall in line with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and associated EU legislation. Its environment minister Martin Cullen said the price of complying with a target of capping greenhouse gas emissions from Ireland at 13 per cent of 1990 levels could be as much as Euro 260 million annually over a five-year period.…
COMMISSION CONTROLS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has disbanded its Directorate General for Financial Control, as part of its root-and-branch reform of its accounting controls, aimed at wrestling with reports claiming that European Union institutions continue to be riddled with fraud. The EU anti fraud office OLAF said in its latest report that 552 new cases were opened from last May to this June, with its caseload increasing by 30 per cent compared to the two first years of its existence, for instance.…
FISH FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg
Introduction
Europe
Cuts to EU catch quotas
New sources of fish
Affect on fish producers
Wild alternatives to cod
Farmed cod
North America
USA – Healthier local stocks
USA – Demand up
USA – Fish imports
Canada – Farmed fish exports
Canada – GM issues
Australasia
Australia – New wild sources
Australia – Aquaculture
Australia – Wild fish innovation
Australia and New Zealand – sustainability
South Africa – Export increase and conservation
Japan – Local and regional supply
Japan – Maintaining quality
Japan – Non-Asian sources
Introduction
ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
BY MARK ROWE
A SONG or customs passed down through generations by an aboriginal tribe can reveal as much about that society as a physical artefact such as their traditional clothing or funerary urns. But while these last two items can be preserved for posterity easily enough, the challenge to retain more intangible objects such as a musical story is far greater.…
SINGAPORE
BY MARK ROWE
Book sales in Singapore for the Christmas period remained buoyant for larger retailers, defying the city state’s generally dismal retail climate.
Kinokuniya, one of the biggest retailers, pushed an aggressive holiday advertising and promotion campaign that helped it achieve almost 10 per cent growth for the year.…
BRITAIN - KYOTO
BY ALAN OSBORN
THANKS to the rapid development of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) British businesses are adjusting well to the requirements imposed on them by the Kyoto Protocol, the UK Government is claiming. DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) officials say the market has exceeded expectations in volume and smoothness of operation since it began in April this year.…
FISH PRICES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed modest increases in guide prices for white fish for 2003 of between 1 to 2.5%, higher increases for pelagic species (1 to 3%), except hake and swordfish (falling by 1 and 1.5% respectively), and no change or small reductions in prices for crustaceans.…
MONEY LAUNDERING & FATF etc
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO many cooks spoil the broth. Or do they? As far as the world’s fight against money laundering is concerned, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund think that they can bring extra flavour to the struggle waged by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…
EU EMISSIONS TRADING GREENWATCH
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.…