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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FEEDING of rare and exotic marine species off deep ocean mineral deposits that may become a target for metal mining companies could create a conflict between international mineral extraction and environmental conventions, a United Nations report has warned.…

Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF has proposed creating an EU FraudNet system, allowing other national and international law enforcement teams to exchange information about financial crime.

It suggested the idea at a conference “Fraud and Aid Funds – What the International Community can do” it organised in Brussels.…

Keith Nuthall
A COOPERATION agreement has been struck between the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The two organisations will work together to boost accounting standards in developing countries and so-called transitional countries, such as in eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has issued a technical report, advising businesses on safeguarding the trustworthiness of electronically-stored information, including policies, security measures, procedures, and audit trials. ISO said: “Organisations have a vested interest in ensuring the authenticity and integrity of electronic image files, whether created or imported – throughout their whole life cycle, from initial capture to eventual destruction – as evidence of business transactions and events.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending Indonesia’s high quality viscose staple fibre producer (VSF) PT South Pacific US$9.5 million to achieve self-sufficiency in electricity, modernise production and refinance medium-term debt. The company supplies 7-8% of world consumption, working with Austria’s Lenzing AG, its major shareholder and the world’s second largest VSF producer.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union needs to set firm long term targets for 2020 regarding the development of renewable energy, to cut greenhouse gas emissions and “give energy markets long-term investment security”, the head of the European Environment Agency (EEA) has said.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is understandable to see how the cosmetics industries in the European Union’s (EU) newest members might view the recent expansion of the EU club with mixed feelings. On the one hand, new markets have opened up: if their products are good enough to sell at home, they can now sell them from the Baltic to the Atlantic.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has lent US$35 million loan to OJSC Experimental-Cannery Lebedyansky, a key branded packed juices and juice drinks producer in Russia. The loan will support expansion and modernisation plans, boosting production efficiency and capacity, expanding the company’s product range, and strengthening distribution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NUMBER of people worldwide at risk from devastating floods will double from one billion today to two billion by 2050 without greater efforts to prevention and predict such disasters, United Nations University (UNU) specialists have claimed. In a first detailed policy statement from a new UNU environment and human security institute in Bonn, Germany, they point out floods currently annually inflict “up to 25,000 annual deaths, extensive homelessness, disaster-induced disease, crop and livestock damage and other serious harm” on over 520 million people.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius has approved an international code of practice on animal feeding, aimed at preventing environmental health problems caused by additive use (especially anti-biotics). The Codex’s Commission also expanded its food health and hygiene regulations, which will tighten rules on production and distribution when implemented in member countries, which include Britain.…