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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has postponed agreement of new regulations governing how mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt, with the sulphides being found around volcanic areas and the crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has delayed agreement of new regulations governing how metal ore mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt; sulphides are found around volcanic areas and crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of restrictions imposed on exports to European buyers of leather raw materials have been highlighted in the detailed European Union (EU) market report. It identifies India, China, the US, Pakistan and Russia as “very important markets” for the supply of leather raw materials, whilst Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Malaysia and Brazil are labelled as “important suppliers (mainly by tanners)”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the increase in global prices for coal since 2003, European Union (EU) coal producing countries still need to restructure their industries, a detailed European Commission survey has noted. Highlighting the increase in spot price for South African steam coal from US$36 in early 2003 to US$74 at the end of 2004, the report cited higher freight rates for Australian coal caused by rising demand in China and solid demand in Japan and South Korea, enabling “traditional suppliers” to the Atlantic market to raise their prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OIL price rises wrought by Hurricane Katrina and endemic strong global demand have encouraged European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs to press ahead with his plans to promote energy conservation in the EU. He has released a paper stressing the need to accelerate the European Action Plan on energy efficiency and also to promote more effective international action on the topic bilaterally and through the International Energy Agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORTERS of pullovers from China worried about the exhaustion of a new quota designed to limit Chinese clothing exports to the European Union (EU) may be offered a legal solution for ensuring their lines can enter the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE study on the competitiveness of the European Union (EU) cosmetics industry is being ordered by the European Commission, comparing the EU against the USA, Japan and China. Researchers will gather and analyse data on both the economic and industrial strengths of the EU cosmetics “to get a comprehensible comparative description of the structure of this sector”, said a Commission note.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of an outbreak of ‘Streptococcus suis’ disease amongst pigs in China, that has jumped species and caused 206 cases amongst humans, killing 38 and rendering 18 critically ill. The bacterial condition is rare in Europe and is contracted usually via cuts and grazes on people handling contaminated pigmeat.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN both the Austrian and Swiss paint industries the European Union’s (EU) chemicals policy, and in particular next year’s introduction of the regulatory framework known as REACH, hang like a grim cloud over the near to mid term future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISING prosperity of China, India and the east Asian “tigers” hides extreme poverty in least developed countries, such as Nepal, Laos and Cambodia, a UN Development Programme-coordinated report warns. Development aid and debt relief to these countries have been “disproportionately low”.…