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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 10 million to steel company SC Donasid to help it upgrade its steel billet plant at Calarasi, south-east Romania, expanding production from a current 300,000 tons per year to its full potential of 450,000 tons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH commercial crime becoming ever more international, it makes sense for companies and public organisations to fight its attacks in similar ways, so they can better coordinate their efforts. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE – ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLINGS FOR ITS NAME) offers management and technical guidance to help.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and food industry international organisations have been asked to comment on draft guidelines on using antibiotic resistance marker genes in food production, drawn up by global food standards body Codex Alimentarius. This additional consultation follows pressure from the European Commission for more studies into whether these genes are safe for consumers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Shaking off fears that the American/Canadian price differential would put off book-buyers, Canadian bookshops had a good Christmas with 71% of members of the Canadian Booksellers Association reporting higher sales compared to the 2005 period. Over a quarter of all respondents said sales were up by more than 10%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission has made a pitch for world leadership in the fight against climate change by calling on the 27 EU member states to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. The move is seen as an example to other countries of the kind of action needed in the post-Kyoto period if there should be no further international agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by then.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
VIETNAMESE clothing manufacturers have been guaranteed quota-free access to the established members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after joining the global trade body on January 11. Its membership, which followed 12 years of negotiations, also means that duty levels for its exports to other WTO countries will henceforth be capped.…

BY MARK ROWE

MORE countries are increasing market share and production levels, according to TDC Olive, with non-EU producers now securing significant market share: Syria (8% of global market share of olive production), Morocco (8%), Turkey (7%), Argentina (5%), Algeria (5%) and Egypt (7%).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HAVING a crystal ball can be useful and profitable for businesses wanting to get ahead of the game and know what investments they may need to comply with future regulations and best practice?

One tactic is to exploit globalisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 ‘Green Award’ to a collaborative farmed seafood industry-international organisation study that produced global and detailed advice on reducing pollution problems caused by shrimp farming. The Network for Aquaculture Centres for the Asia Pacific teamed with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), WWF, the UN Environment Programme and the bank itself to form the Consortium on Shrimp Farming and the Environment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CALIFORNIA wine production could plummet by mid-century because of rising temperatures due to climate change a new study warns. According to research in the US scientific journal, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, wine production losses in California could hit 40%.…