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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIA has formally requested extended jurisdiction over its submarine continental shelf beyond the standard 200 nautical miles, granting exclusive rights over oil and gas deposits. The UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf requested extra control of the Great Australian Bight, Kerguelen Plateau, Lord Howe Rise, Exmouth/Wallaby Plateaux, Norfolk/Three Kings, South Tasman Rise and Macquarie Ridge.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S not quite “back to the drawing board chaps” for sugar reform in the European Union (EU) now that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has formally ruled against the present system but some new thinking is surely needed – and quickly.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed the first genetic map of a cow, a breakthrough they claim will help reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition and quality of beef products. The research, performed at the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Centre in Houston, Texas, is part of a US$53 million global project to sequence the genome of different breeds of cattle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS European Union (EU) debates reforms to its working time rules designed to make it harder for Britain to opt-out of this EU legislation, an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report has claimed more Britons work excessive hours than other Europeans.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FOR a group of office workers in Sydney, Australia, moving into their new building was – surprisingly – a thrill. And it was not because of fancy cappuccino coffee machines or top line computers but because it was the country’s first office building with a five star Australian Building Greenhouse Rating (ABGR).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has appealed against a WTO ruling that its sugar exporters are getting more subsidies that they should under global trade rules. However, the ruling, now confirmed by the WTO, could help the European Commission push its reforms of the EU sugar common market organisation onto unwilling member states.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) incoming agriculture Commissioner signalled a tough approach to New World wine and spirit producers who exploit traditional European geographic names on wine products after she takes up her post on November 1.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced Euro 5 million of spending to help France, Denmark, Greece and Italy promote local food products in the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, China, Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Romania.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend up to Euro 5 million to help fund a feasibility project into developing a new iron ore mine in Mauritania. The money would go to Aouj SA, a Mauritanian subsidiary of Australia’s Sphere Investments Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend up to Euro 5 million to help fund a feasibility project into developing a new iron ore mine in Mauritania. The money would go to Aouj SA, a Mauritanian subsidiary of Australia’s Sphere Investments Ltd.…