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Keith Nuthall
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the Australian government for the dismantling of bureaucratic barriers that prevent accountants from practising in foreign countries.

Its detailed suggested were made in to the ongoing services round of the WTO, in Geneva, which has just reached the end of its first stage.…

BY MIKE FOX
AZURIX, the troubled water subsidiary of the giant energy company Enron, has confirmed that it would like to sell its north American water interests.

Azurix has a company policy of not commenting on its plans for acquisitions or divestments, but the potential sale of its north American subsidiary was revealed when it put in a bid to develop a US$150million water treatment plant that would eventually form part of a US$2billion distribution system in Houston Texas, home to the corporate headquarters of both companies.…

BY KATE REW
S500 Mercedes ‘Guard’

Pluses: Unlike competitors it’s built from outset as armoured car – although

it doesn’t look like one.

Minuses: Are you really in enough danger to justify spending Pounds 130,000, (US$150K in the US), on this when you could be spending it on a yacht?…

BY KATE REW
IN the 21st century, water may be as important to the Texas economy as oil and gas were in the last. In an American state where the urban population is expected to double over the next 50 years and where the majority of surface reservoirs have already been developed, the importance of ground water sources is paramount.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUPPLY and quality of water services and their environmental management have been near the top of the research agendas of institutions of the European Union this year, with the European Commission’s directorate generals (DG) for research and the environment being particularly active.…

BY MIKE FOX
THE CANADIAN energy company Hydro-Quebec has been ordered to pay more than CAN$20 million plus interest to a group of 15 Vermont utilities, to compensate for loss of power during the January 1998 “ice storm”. Quebec Hydro was selling them electricity under a 30 year contract from 1991, but cut off supplies for 66 days after the storm brought down power lines and transmission towers across Quebec, as a result of thick ice building up on all exposed equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it is to make a grant of Euro 2.5 million to the Yemeni government, allowing it to make improvements to its air traffic control systems. The money will be spent on repairs and replacement of inadequate communication and navigational equipment in the major Yemeni airports, the continuation of flight calibration of navigational aids to maintain reliability and compliance with international civil aviation standards and a training programme for the staff of the Yemeni Civil Aviation Authority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European farming industry facing more fundamental change than it has in decades, it could be said that funding research into ways of making this transformation less painless has to be a good thing. Whatever the view on this fairly facile assumption, the eyes of the agricultural sector should at least be partly turned on Brussels thus year, where debates for the preparation of a new five-year EU research programme are being staged.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOT-and-Mouth disease is spreading in Argentina, with 74 outbreaks, (compared with 689 in the UK), affecting 3,667 cattle being registered by March, the International Office of Epizootics has reported. Of these cases, the bulk have been in Buenos Aires province, with smaller outbreaks in the provinces of Cordoba, La Pampa, San Luis and Santa Fe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has set itself on a collision course with the European Commission, by amending the cosmetics directive to ban the sale within the EU of products tested on animals.

In a vote on plans by the Commission to ban animal testing within the EU, while allowing the sale of imported cosmetics that have been produced with such tests, MEP’s voted for a reinstatement of a ban that was agreed in 1993, but has never been implemented.…