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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic has announced that it is extending the life of its 80 per cent safeguard duty on sugar imports until December 2004, claiming that its producers would be flooded by imports (mostly from Poland and the EU), if it lifted the protection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Euro 10 million to Denmark’s Danfoss Solutions, who will finance investment in energy-efficiency projects in the eastern European brewery sector, particularly in Poland and Russia, where energy consumption by industrial companies is significantly higher than in western plants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is investing Euro 7 million of new equity into in Dalkia Termika, the Polish subsidiary of France-based Dalkia International, which will make a further investment as a result. Its Polish business will develop energy installations in Poland, especially district heating projects, making them more efficient.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ESTABLISHMENT of special anti-fraud coordinators in all eastern and southern European countries applying to join the European Union (EU) has been welcomed by OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud office.

In a memorandum on the fight against fraud in an enlarged EU, OLAF said: “By putting Anti Fraud Co-ordinating Service offices in place, the candidate countries have demonstrated in concrete terms their commitment to fighting fraud.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WAY back when….last December….the International Maritime Organisation agreed a compulsory maritime security code for its member countries, covering ships and ports involved in international trade. Governments have to write the code into their laws by December 31 and shipping companies and port authorities are supposed to comply by June 2004.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WE are not inclined to disagree with those who say the enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 countries in 2004 is to be done on terms much less damaging to present EU farmers, and conversely much less favourable to incoming farmers, than seemed probable a year ago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is planning to lend Euro 52.5 million in Polish Zloty to Poland’s El-Viv Telecom Sp. z o.o., to provide acquisition finance to its planned new owners, a consortium of private equity investors including Hicks Muse Tate and Furst, Emerging Markets Partnership (Europe) and Argus Capital Partners.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A TRADE deal smoothing Poland’s planned 2004 entry into the European Union has been agreed, where the EU introduces duty free quotas for products including chocolate, biscuits and confectionery and Poland cuts its import duties for chocolate, biscuits and confectionery by 30 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRADE deal smoothing Poland’s 2004 entry into the EU has been agreed, where the EU introduces duty free quotas for products including chocolate, biscuits and confectionery and Poland cuts its import duties for chocolate, biscuits and confectionery by 30 per cent.…