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BY KEITH NUTHALL
MASSACRES in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) civil war and the murky business dealings that have fuelled the conflict are to be the first focus of the International Criminal Court (ICC), its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said.…

BY ALAN
International insurance cover for nuclear risk is to be extended in the EU following a decision by the European Commission to approve a new protocol amending the Paris Convention. This will allow the concept of nuclear damage to cover damage to the environment, non-material damage and the cost of safeguard measures and will extend geographical scope to cover third countries that are not parties to the Convention such as Ireland and Luxembourg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation has approved a significant tightening of its MARPOL convention regarding the phasing out of certain oil tankers, although it has postponed many formal decisions on the issue until a key meeting in December. Following political pressure – especially from the EU – IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee agreed to bring forward from 2005, from 2007 the phasing-out of ‘category 1’ tankers delivered before the MARPOL convention came in force in 1982.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S leather goods exports have slipped for the third consecutive year, as manufacturers of international brands of leather goods move away from the country to tap cheaper labour costs in China. Exports are expected to fall below last year’s total value of Baht 70 billion (US$1.6 billion), according to the Thai Leather Goods Association, which said that the SARS virus and the Iraq war had further added pressure to the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-FERROUS metal producers in the existing 15 European Union (EU) countries could see some lowering of labour costs after enlargement of the EU next year as low-paid Polish and other workers move into the higher wage countries like Germany, according to industry sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of VDBO, the oil seeds division of Unilever Bestfoods by Archer Daniels Midland International Ltd (UK).…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN federal judge was within his right to temporarily shut down state government approved salmon farms, a US appeals court ruled on August 7. The appellate judge had assessed a May ruling, where a federal judge ordered two Norwegian-owned companies (Atlantic Salmon of Maine and Stolt Sea Farms) to fallow their 12 farms from six to 36 months, after being fined for damaging Maine’s coast with excess feed, faeces and medications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out a gloomy message: we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is resisting proposed reforms to European Union business law on cross-border non-contractual civil disputes, which would insist that the country of a complainant provides the courts charged with making a judgement. The ICC fears that such a law – designed to breed consumer confidence in cross-border retail sales – would scare businesses from selling into foreign markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new Galileo global positioning satellite project should command enough earmarked frequency to avoid interference problems, following the recent International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference. Its four weeks of negotiations set aside sufficient radio spectrum for Galileo, to the satisfaction of Erkki Liikanen, EU enterprise and information society Commissioner.…