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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DIPLOMATS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva are working to a tight deadline on agreeing detailed goals to liberalise trade in industrial goods such as dyes following the WTO’s Hong Kong summit in December. It agreed an overall agreement (called modalities in WTO jargon) on the industrial goods section of its Doha Development Round should be struck by April 30.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRADE ministers have imposed a tight deadline on World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiators to agree detailed goals of the industrial goods section of its Doha Development Round of liberalisation negotiations – April 30. This is the date by which an overall "modalities" agreement must be struck, which will say how much particular bands (by value) of tariffs must be reduced by all WTO member countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has published a new standard for food safety management systems, designed to ensure there are no weak environmental health links in food supply chains. ISO 22000 specifies requirements for food safety management for sourcing, manufacturing, canning, boxing, bagging, bottling, delivering and selling food.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE METEROLOGICAL Office, the UK’s national weather service, the Met Office, has launched a new version of its satellite-distribution weather advice service. The new upgraded SADIS2G (second generation) is being rolled out to air traffic control units (ATCs) and will gradually supersede the existing SADIS system.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN both the Austrian and Swiss paint industries the European Union’s (EU) chemicals policy, and in particular next year’s introduction of the regulatory framework known as REACH, hang like a grim cloud over the near to mid term future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to formally approve a deal struck between the European Commission and the Swiss government on deepening their cooperation in nuclear research projects. The agreement cements the participation of Swiss researchers in the Euratom components of multi-billion Euro EU framework programmes on research.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A SWISS research unit has developed a solar power reactor storing the power of the sun in zinc batteries. The Paul Scherrer Institute’s system concentrates the sun’s rays via mirrors onto zinc oxide ore, with a catalyst such as coal and coke.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A PROPOSAL by the European Commission to publish a blacklist of airlines with unsatisfactory safety records could mean the withdrawal of insurance cover for companies failing to measure up according to Commission officials. The Brussels plan has been made in the context of a recent sequence of aviation crashes off Italy, Greece, Canada and Venezuela where defective aircraft or negligence by operating personnel have come under suspicion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared the takeover by Swiss food packaging giant Tetra Laval of Italian food and drink filling and packaging company SIG Simonazzi, without imposing conditions. This follows a Brussels investigation focusing on the potential competition problems caused through their joint interests in aseptic PET and HDPE plastic packaging filling machines and non-aseptic PET filling machines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SWISS research unit has developed a solar power reactor storing the power of the sun in zinc batteries. The Paul Scherrer institute’s system concentrates the sun’s rays via mirrors onto zinc oxide ore, with a catalyst such as coal and coke.…