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BY ALAN OSBORN
SPURRED by the recent OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) report on terrorism risk cover, insurers have begun to wonder about the optimum pattern for cover in this highly unpredictable sector with its potential for catastrophic losses.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE INCREASING global demand for mineral resources – especially from Asia – has breathed new life into a remote yet highly and diversely mineralised part of Australia. The island of Tasmania, off the south east coast of the continent, is revelling in a mining boom, the like of which it has not seen for more than a century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel will implement the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling confirming European Union (EU) sugar subsidies break WTO rules. She said: “I will take account of this verdict when I finalise the reform proposals” to the EU sugar regime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL sugar industry will scrutinise the text of an appeal verdict issued yesterday (28-4) by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), confirming an earlier decision that European Union’s (EU) existing sugar subsidies break WTO rules. The European Commission has already accepted the decision, which is important, because it will on June 22 publish detailed reforms and EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has responded: “I will take account of this verdict when I finalise the reform proposals”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT won’t be long now before British and other European sugar beet growers find out exactly what kind of future they have – and even, in some cases, whether it’s worth them staying in the game at all.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESEARCHERS from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the US are to map the sheep genome to secure improvements in meat and wool production. Britain’s Genesis Faraday group will work with American project leader Utah State University; New Zealand’s AgResearch; and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; Livestock Australia; and Australian Wool Innovation.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE SOUTH African paint and coatings industry is in a state of change as a shift in focus towards overseas markets coupled with a need to protect local markets is pushing manufacturers to reassess their quality and production volume capabilities.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
TASMANIA’S non-ferrous metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence with strong production targets for the next five to ten years.

Miners in Australia’s island state are reluctant to call it a “metals rush” but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TASMANIA’S metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence, with non-ferrous metals leading the charge, nickel, copper and tin being the main players. Miners in the Australia island state are reluctant to call it a ‘metals rush’ but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years in the island.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has told the European Union (EU) to open up its geographical indication protection system to include traditionally made drinks (and foodstuffs) from non-EU countries. The system currently protects EU-made products such a Champagne and Bordeaux, insisting that they are made in their home regions by traditional methods.…