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BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
A WORLDWIDE standard for automotive safety glazing may only be a few months away, now that suppliers have agreed on the content and wording.

The new draft standard was finalized at a January conference in Brussels under the umbrella of CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), with representatives from the US, Japan, Canada, Belgium, France and Germany taking part.…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul
LAST October, South Korea was admitted as an observer to the world’s premier group of money laundering fighters – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and given the nation’s recent moves to strengthen its anti-money laundering regime its path to full membership in approximately two years appears smooth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRIAL over two years of a new global voluntary compact to reduce mercury poisoning is now being staged by the United Nations, which says it will press for an international and binding treaty on the problem if the guidelines do not work.…

BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo
AS hostilities between Sri Lanka military and Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka’s north and east intensify, the country’s national air force has been entrusted with “overall security” of the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake, near Colombo a top government official has disclosed to Janes Airport Review.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNIVERSITIES and colleges that promote the usefulness of global standards in research, business and public administration will be honoured this summer in new award launched by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Nominations for entries have now closed and winners of the Swiss Francs 15,000 (GBPounds 6,143) ISO Award for Higher Education in Standardisation will be will be announced in September 2007, at the ISO general assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) US$85 million loan to ISTIL Ukraine, will help the Ukraine’s only modern mini-steel mill using an electric arc furnace and continuous casting technology to raise Euro 3 million in Kyoto Protocol carbon credit sales.…

BY MARK ROWE
AN EXHIBITION centre in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will next month (March) be the venue for Asia’s largest personal care trade conference. Manufacturers, formulators, scientists and suppliers will converge to promote new ranges to what is now recognised as being the world’s most burgeoning market: China.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are urging the London Olympic Delivery Authority and the London 2012 Organising Committee to be mindful of potential pitfalls when executing the building of venues and parks for the games.

Indeed, the ‘Greening the Games Campaign’ group, which is backed by the UK landscape and horticultural industry approves of the sustainability programme recently launched by the Olympics authority, but fears contractors’ bottom line may get in the way of reaching the environmental goals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE – IT USES ‘Z’s TO SPELL ITS NAME) is not one of the global three musketeers charged with fighting money laundering and terrorist financing – namely, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL guidelines on checking the safety and good repair of gas cylinders powering vehicles are available from the International Organisation for Standardisation. ISO 19078:2006 advises on visual examinations and installation, defining criteria for identifying damage, and guides manufacturing, maintenance and disposal.…