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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A US$40 million trust fund has been launched by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Health Organisation to help developing countries frame and implement Codex Alimentarius international food trade standards. The ‘Project and Fund for Enhanced Participation in Codex’ should run for 12 years.…

BY PHILIP FINE

HOUSTON-BASED Marathon Oil will sell US$400 million (Pounds 253 million) in assets this year to pay down its debt and boost spending on international oil projects. The company identified the assets as non-core oil and gas production and refining and marketing.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, ALAN OSBORN, PHILIP FINE and KEITH NUTHALL

IF there had been feelings bubbling under the surface of the British civil nuclear industry that the regulations governing its security were due for an overhaul, the events of September 11, 2001 – becoming universally known by its American shorthand 9/11 – certainly brought everybody to the table.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is talking closely to concerned environmental groups before agreeing to release US$300 million to build the planned key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is seeking opinions on a proposal to adapt

the International Accounting Standards system, which many European Union (EU) companies are obliged to use from 2005, as a “starting point” for an EU-wide consolidated tax base.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LEGALLY binding civil claims code has been drawn up by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) that insists on compensation being paid out for industrial accidents damaging rivers, lakes and seas that span national boundaries.…

BY FRITZ BRETT
UK insurance consumers will benefit from a new 7-year regulation adopted by the European Commission providing for a block exemption authorising certain types of co-operation agreements between companies, say industry officials. The regulation, drawn up after intensive consultations with the industry, including the Association of British Insurers, covers agreements that include the establishment of non-binding standard policy conditions, the exchange of statistical information for the calculation of risks and the creation of insurance pools.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union gas federation Eurogas is hopeful that the proposed EU directive on securing Europe’s gas supplies will be substantially recast, after opposition from the industry to proposals allowing the European Commission to intervene in the market to depress high prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW international water college has been founded in the Netherlands, with the particular aim of developing new techniques and technologies to secure future water supplies in arid areas. The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, is a joint venture between the UN scientific body and the Dutch government, which had run a purely national water institute on the college’s site.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has again convened the European Union’s (EU) Oil Supply Group, as war in Iraq threatens the security of Europe’s oil deliveries. The panel’s experts discussed the risks of the conflict escalating and broadening into the Middle East generally, debating measures that would be required by EU Member States if Gulf oil and gas supplies were threatened.…