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BY ALAN OSBORN

FEW transatlantic agreements have given rise to more friction and animosity than the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) set up by the US Treasury in 2001 shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and in direct response to them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DUTCH environmental campaigners have failed in court to link two European Union (EU) directives in a way that would force pollution permits for coal-fired power stations to respect national emissions limits imposed by EU law. The two directives in question are the 2008 integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) directive and the 2001 directive on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants (NEC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL football federation FIFA is struggling to protect its reputation against corruption claims sparking the provisional suspension by its ethics committee of vice-president Jack A Warner, from Trinidad, and Qatari executive committee member Mohamed bin Hammam. Both were accused of trying to bribe Caribbean Football Union (CFU) members for votes in an upcoming FIFA presidential vote.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DUTCH environmental campaigners have failed in court to link two European Union (EU) directives in a way that would force pollution permits for power stations to respect national emissions limits imposed by EU law. The two directives in question are the 2008 integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) directive and the 2001 directive on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants (NEC).…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

AS one of the final stages in the converting process, it is important that the coating and laminating of raw materials goes off without a hitch to produce the best possible end product for paper, plastic and textile packagers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HIGH sugar prices and tight supplies are a constant worry for confectionery manufacturers this year, and the European Union (EU) has been trying to keep these problems under control. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated that global prices rose 81.4% from last July (2010) to this January (2011) and the EU has taken action.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has drawn a curtain over the longest running trade dispute in the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) history – approving December 2009 deals on reducing EU banana import tariffs. These had been struck with the USA, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela solving complaints the EU unfairly favoured Caribbean island banana exports with quota and tariffs.…

BY ZLATKO ?ONKA?

IF one European country exists that demonstrates the need for the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), it is surely Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH), whose political and economic recovery from war has been halting. The EBRD has worked with the Bosnian government and its Serb and Bosniak/Croat sub-national entities for 15 years and its latest project could be the jewel in the crown of this cooperation – the revamping of Sarajevo International Airport.…

BY MARK ROWE

FOR the cosmetics and personal care product sector, the provenance of their ingredients can be important for marketing, and this is particularly the case for bio-based oil and fats. With growing consciousness about the environmental impact of their production and the cultivation of their feedstocks, the personal care sector – a key client of the oils and fats industry – is looking hard at who supplies its ingredients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TALKS to agree a new European Union (EU) novel food regulation, which could have banned the use of meat from cloned animals and their offspring collapsed this week (Monday Mar 28). It means that the current novel foods law, adopted in 1997, remains in force, with no outright ban on using these meats in the EU.…