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APPLES FRANCE EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE, the Czech Republic and Poland are encouraging the European Commission to obtain sufficiently detailed data on an alleged boom in European Union apple imports to allow temporary protective safeguard duties to be erected, in line with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.…
RASFF CONSUMER WARNING FOOD POISONING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commissions rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) has warned of sales in the Czech Republic of Spanish fruit flavour confectionary containing excess colouring E124 and in Austria of foods containing unauthorised Indian ingredient betel nuts.…
CFATF - CARIBBEAN REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION
BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain, Trinidad
WITH its multiple small jurisdictions, offshore tax havens and proximity to both drug producing countries in Latin America and the United States, the Caribbean has always been a focus of global anti-money laundering efforts.…
EU ROUND UP - EU COMPETITION INQUIRY GAS CROSSBORDER TRANSMISSION BIOFUELS, BIOMASS, EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s competition directorate general has said it will launch legal action against restrictive business practices and abuses of dominant positions in European Union (EU) gas markets. In a long awaited report, it promised to act against long-term downstream contracts and restricted access to capacity on gas pipelines, storage and inter-connectors between member states.…
IRELAND GAS - LOUGH ALLEN NATURAL GAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRISH natural gas company Finavera Ltd claims a technical evaluation of its Lough Allen natural gas field, in the northwest Irish Republic and Northern Ireland has revealed 9.4 trillion cubic feet gas reserves.
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EXPORTING DELAYS - WORLD BANK REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ADMINISTRATIVE export delays in developing countries damage economic progress, says a World Bank report. An export container from Bangui, the Central African Republic, requires 116 days to be customs cleared and loaded on a ship at the nearest port; it takes 71 from Burkina Faso’s Ouagadougou; and 93 from Almaty, Kazakhstan.…
GEORGIA EBRD BREWERY INVESTMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is buying a US$3 million equity investment in Lomisi Ltd, the second largest beer producer in Georgia, to help the Caucasus brewer secure permanent working capital, improve production and distribution systems, while boosting marketing.…
EUROBAROMETER FOOD POLL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN European Union (EU) consumers think of food, more associate it with "taste" – 31%, than with "pleasure" – 29%, "hunger" – 27%, "health" – 19% and "necessity" – 15%. As usual with culturally diverse Europe, however, there were wide national variations.…
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO DRC DIKULUSHI COPPER SILVER MINE MIGA ETHICS ASSESSMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), of the World Bank, is to review its compliance procedures regarding the social impact of projects it supports, following a critical report from the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank group about a Congo mine.…
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO DRC DIKULUSHI COPPER SILVER MINE MIGA ETHICS ASSESSMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COMPLIANCE Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank group has accused the international organisation’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of failing to ensure a Congo mining project’s security could not endanger local citizens. The ombudsman ruled in an investigation into assistance provided by Canada’s Anvil Mining in 2004 to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) army’s retaking from rebels a town used to ship copper and silver from its Dikulushi mine, in the southern DRC.…