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EU ROUND UP - BRUSSELS PLOTS AMBITIOUS COURSE OF ACTION ON ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled the cost of its ambitious plan for cutting European Union (EU) greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95% of 1990 levels by 2050. Brussels says that an additional targeted annual investment over the next 40 years is needed – equalling 1.5% of the EU’s GDP – or Euro EUR270 billion.…

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CROATIA MEDICINE INFORMATION ASSESSED FOR EU ENTRY



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE QUALITY of Croatian language information provided on packaging for European Union (EU) medicines is being assessed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Croatia is scheduled to join the EU in June 2012 and EMA wants to ensure Croatian-language medicine information complies with EU information rules before that date.…

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UKRAINE AND CROATIA ATM TO GET EBRD BACKING



THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is planning to lend money to bring the Ukraine and Croatia air traffic control systems to European standards. The EBRD is developing a Euro EUR45 million financing package for UkSATSE – the air navigation services provider of Ukraine -combined with EUR45 million lent by the European Investment Bank (EIB).…

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FORMER YUGOSLAVIA TRIES TO MOVE BEYOND THE DIRTY INEFFICIENT ENERGY SECTOR OF ITS PAST



BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN imagining Europe’s greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems.…

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EIB PLOTS EURO 34 MILLION LOAN TO CROATIAN PLASTICS COMPANY



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 34 million to Croatian plastics company Dina Petrokemija d.d., to upgrade an existing vinyl chloride monomer plant and construct a new plant for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). This expansion is designed to help the company – a subsidiary of Dioki d.d.…

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CROATIA HAS TOUGH TASK TO DRIVE CORRUPTION AND FRAUD DOWN TO EU LEVELS



BY MARK ROWE

CROATIA is certainly talking a good game when it comes to cracking down on fraud as its European Union (EU) membership negotiations continue apace. The promised land of a seat at Brussels was sufficient to help Social Democrat law professor and classical music composer Ivo Josipovi?…

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IRAN FACES MAJOR TOBACCO SMUGGLING PROBLEM



BY PAUL COCHRANE, KARRYN MILLER and KEITH NUTHALL

IRAN may be a democratic theocracy, but it certainly does not take the moral high ground when it comes to tobacco smuggling. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has in the past identified Iran as being one of only two countries in the world where more than half the cigarette market share comprises contraband.…

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EU MEMBERSHIP APPLICANTS HARBOUR USEFUL MARKETS, BUT ALSO POTENTIAL COMPETITORS



BY MARK ROWE

THE NEXT few years are likely to see several countries accede to the European Union (EU), with significant implications for the personal care sector. Local producers of toiletries, detergents and cosmetics, as well as multinationals in a number of countries, are closely following the negotiations conducted by their governments.…

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BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA TOBACCO MARKET AND INDUSTRY REPORT



BY MARK ROWE

The Republic of Bosnia & Herzegovina is a confusing place politically, and so understanding its tobacco market and industry is similarly difficult. Importantly, it comprises two entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska and while there is also no domestic tobacco industry in the Republic of Srpska; there is within the Federation, the location of the vast majority of the country’s tobacco production.…

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TOBACCO TRAVELLER - COLLECTION 2009 - EGYPT, TUNISIA, SYRIA AND IRAN



BY PAUL COCHRANE

EGYPT

Eastern Tobacco Company

450 Al Ahram Street, Giza

Tel : +20-18-5724711- 5724332 – 5724945

+20-23-5793326

www.easternegypt.com

British American Tobacco Egypt

City Stars Complex

Star Capital – Tower 4A

Omar Ebn El Khattab Street

Postal Code 11771

Heliopolis, Cairo

T: (+20) 2 480 1080

Japan Tobacco International (Regional)

2nd Floor, Lophitis Business Centre

249, 28th October Street & Emiliou Hourmouziou Corner

CY-3035, Lemesos

P.O.…

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