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BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA, the US and Mexico have asked Office International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, to establish more practical and scientific guidelines on preventing and controlling BSE. They want action by January, given recent advances in detection and deterrence and the trade hiatus following the discovery of one infected cow in Canada.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has passed technical regulations approving most International Accounting Standards for use by all listed companies in the EU from 2005, as required by an existing 2002 regulation. Only IAS 32 and 39, (on the accounting and disclosure of financial instruments), have yet to be approved, as they are being revised by the International Accounting Standards Board.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 70 million to help Australia’s Oxiana Resources develop a copper mine in Laos. On the basis of its policies supporting international development, the EIB would fund Oxiana’s development of the Khanong open cast pit, 370 kilometres southeast of the Laos capital Vientiane.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MIDDLE East conference of the Office International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has been staged to improve the region’s weak animal health controls. There was concern at the meeting, in Istanbul, Turkey, that Middle East countries do not have emergency plans to deal with outbreaks of transmissible animal diseases or detection systems for BSE.…

BY PHILIP FINE

INTERNATIONAL drinks companies that market flavoured malt beverages (FMB) have ceased overtly targeting underage American consumers, according to a recently released federal government report that praises the efforts of nine major producers for having improved the placement of their advertisements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY, Sweden and Denmark must do more to prevent water run-off from their rivers and coasts adding excess nutrients to the western Baltic Sea, said an international research project into the deaths of marine wildlife in 2002. The Helsinki Commission – tasked with investigating the natural disaster – concluded higher levels of nutrients from agriculture, urban wastewater and air pollution poured into the sea after heavy rain and snow.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
CALLS for an injection of foreign investment in the Indian tobacco sector have been opposed by the India Tobacco Corporation chairman, who said he was surprised that the idea is supported by some growers. Y.C. Deveshwar told a discussion session with farmers at the Central Tobacco Research Institute, Rajahmundry, that he opposed the entry of foreign companies, saying it would “harm the interests of Indian farmers”, the Hindu Business Line has reported.…

Keith Nuthall
A DETAILED and global draft code of practice on reducing violence and stress suffered by service industry employees has been released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which views the problems as a key “threat to productivity and decent work”.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 20 million to Serbia’s Belgrade International Airport and the Montenegro Airport Management Company to upgrade their passenger terminals. The money would help modernise Belgrade airport, extending its existing building, installing air conditioning, replacing check-in counters, remote control and video surveillance.…

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.…