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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is buying US$10 million equity in independent Argentina and Chile oil and gas producer GeoPark Holdings Limited. The money will strengthen its capital base, corporate governance, environmental and community development policies.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OBSTACLES have been thrown into the path of imports into Chile of wines made outside the European Union (EU) and which are sold using controversial and contested geographical indications such as sherry, Bordeaux and port. These have come in changes agreed by the EU Council of Ministers to a 2002 EU-Chile agreement on trading wines.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FURTHER global restrictions on the tobacco industry are to be developed, the first Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has decided. Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, diplomats established working groups to develop legally binding protocols, using the convention as their authority, that further limit cross-border tobacco advertising and smuggling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has made permanently legal across the EU experimental wine-making practices that have been under trial. They include the treatment of must and fermenting wine with charcoal, employing L-ascorbic acid, adding dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) and using yeast mannoproteins.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has authorised the European Commission to launch negotiations with the Chilean government over updating EU-Chile agreements on the trade in wines, spirits and aromatised drinks. These deals have been in force since February 2003, and contain lists of mutually protected geographical indications, traditional expressions, official descriptions of quality for marketing purposes and a list of trademarks.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) ‘association agreement’ with Chile is likely to be deepened by allowing EU wines, spirits and aromatised drinks to enter the Chilean market duty free. The EU Council of Ministers has approved the move, which would be agreed at a future EU-Chile association council meeting.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has authorised the European Commission to launch negotiations with the Chilean government over updating EU-Chile agreements on the trade in wines, spirits and aromatised drinks. These deals have been in force since February 2003, and contain lists of mutually protected geographical indications, traditional expressions, official descriptions of quality for marketing purposes and a list of trademarks.…