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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENHANCED powers, responsibilities and resources are being proposed for the new European Maritime Safety Agency to enable it to fight tanker pollution. The European Commission has proposed that it should buy or lease specialist anti-pollution vessels. It also wants its work expanded to cover maritime security and seafarer training.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN timber company Ilim Pulp plans to build a US$50m timber processing plant in the northern Arkhangelsk region of the country, with a projected annual output of up to 700,000 cubic meters of processed timber annually. The company expects to prepare the construction project for the new plant and decide on an exact location by the end of the year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN counterfeit goods manufacturers, who have traditionally regarded clothes and textile goods as prime and lucrative targets, have seen a six-fold fall in the number of goods they sell. The country’s State Customs Committee says Russia lost US$600 million last year in the sale of fake goods of all kinds, compared with US$1 billion in 1999.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has called on Thailand to cut import tariffs on non-ferrous and ferrous metals to help boost trade between the two countries. Alexei Kudrin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance said that if tariffs were lowered, Russia would increase imports, particularly of non-ferrous metals, steel and iron, which constitute the lion’s share of Thai imports from Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SHARP public spat over the Kyoto Protocol has soured relations between the European Union’s (EU) environment Commissioner Margot Wallström and energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio. The social democrat Swede criticised her Spanish conservative colleague in an undiplomatic briefing to journalists in Brussels, following de Palacio’s comments that the EU might have to reconsider supporting Kyoto, given Russia’s reluctance to ratify it.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN Tax Ministry has recommended the reintroduction of licensing for cigarette and tobacco wholesalers, which was abolished last year. Officials say the move would reduce the market share of low-quality cigarettes. The ministry also wants to start charging excise tax on cigarettes and tobacco at a rate based on the product’s maximum retail price instead of on the wholesale price.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE LONG-RUNNING row between Russia and the United States has taken another twist with Moscow reducing the number of its approved American suppliers from 341 to 266. The Russian government cited concerns about health standards in the US poultry industry, the reason for an earlier blanket ban, which was lifted recently.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIAN poultry outfit Stavropolsky Broiler has been lent US$15 million by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. The money will help the Agros subsidiary rehabilitate and expand commercial broiler production in the Stavropol region of Russia, improving bird breeding, strengthening management, increasing production, providing working capital, and expanding distribution networks.…