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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has declared northern Argentina (north of the 42° parallel) free from foot and mouth disease (FMD), albeit with the help of vaccination, backdated to July 7…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is lending US$17.5 million in INDRupees to Indian textile company Alok Industries Ltd, allowing the Mumbai (Bombay)-based company to expand and modernise its knitting facilities and meet growing demand from domestic and international customers.…

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 ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

Keith Nuthall
COUNTERFEIT textile products are being used by international terrorist groups as a key mans to finance their operations, Interpol secretary general Ronald K Noble has warned governments and law enforcement agencies. In documents for his testimony to the US House of Representatives committee on international relations, Mr Noble said the problem might become more serious and called for a partnership between industry and police, to combat it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s foreign ministers have warned in a tough joint statement that the EU’s relationship and cooperation with Iran would be “reviewed” if its government did not agree to an enhanced nuclear inspections protocol as required by the International Atomic Energy Agency.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have agreed to a significant strengthening of EU regulations covering the counterfeiting of goods, a key move for many small businesses, given that insurance against losses caused by their receiving fake goods is hard to obtain, even though the cost of resulting seizures or losses in value may be significant.…

Keith Nuthall
LEGAL proceedings are being brought by the European Commission against the governments of Ireland and Luxembourg over their alleged failure to implement the European Union’s seafarers’ working time directive. Brussels claims that neither Member State has notified it of any legislation writing the 1999 directive into their national laws.…

Keith Nuthall
Serious doubts have been expressed over the European Commission’s

ability to meet its 2005 deadline for the reform of its accounting system.

In a letter sent on July 2nd to commissioners Michaele Schreyer, who is in

charge of the Euro 79 billion budget, and Neil Kinnock, who handles

internal administration, the commission’s internal auditor Jules Muis said

the proposed timetable was “not achievable.”…