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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE POTENTIALLY valuable natural gas market of Norway has been opened partly for non-Norwegian utilities by legal pressure from the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority. It had threatened to take oil and gas-rich Norway to the EFTA Court over rules that not only prevented foreign gas companies operating in the country, but blocked their third party access to existing pipelines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LEADING powers of the automotive industry worldwide have agreed to attempt forging common technical standards for the still evolving electric car sector. An agreement struck today (Thursday) in Geneva, Switzerland, will see the United States working with the European Union (EU) and Japan within two working parties: their goal is to write a formal global technical regulation (or regulations) on electric cars by 2014 and debate informal standardization.…

BY MARK GODFREY and MJ DESCHAMPS

THE EXTENSION of the European Union’s (EU) emission trading scheme to the civil aviation sector might have been welcomed by environmentalists, but it has upset politicians and industry leaders abroad notably in the United States and China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PUBLIC searchable database of pharmaceutical-related intellectual property assets will be run by a global consortium involving major pharma companies including Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, and Sanofi. They are working with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) and major research organisations.…

BY JILL LANGLOIS, IN SÃO PAULO

BRAZIL’S dyeing and finishing sector is working hard to maintain a commercial edge – especially through environmental good practice – while its key market, the Brazilian textile industry, faces some tough times.

Foreign competition, weak international branding and unhelpful Brazilian government regulations are weakening the textile sector in Brazil: "The industry’s deficit will hit a record USD5 billion [last] year [2011] – we’ve already had to cut 19,000 jobs…" said Aguinaldo Diniz Filho, president of the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association (ABIT).…

BY EUGENE VOROTNIKOV

RUSSIA is planning to invest more than Russian Roubles RUB470 billion (USD14 billion) in reforming the country’s air traffic management system, bringing it into the line with European Union (EU) standards, according to November 25 statements made by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a transport policy meeting in the city of Horki.…

BY GEOFF MEADE

THE EUROPEAN Commission has threatened to take "radical" measures against most European Union (EU) countries unless more is done to deliver a ‘Single European Sky’ for air traffic control services. It has warned this could include proposing new EU legislation to force member states to do more in forging a unified and efficient EU ATC system.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE AVIATION sector is significantly boosting Asia-Pacific technical coatings demand. With fuel overheads typically accounting for around 40% of all costs in the aviation industry, there has been increased demand in recent years for a new generation of aerodynamic coatings, which can reduce drag and cut costs, especially in emerging markets where operators need to minimise costs.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

A SENIOR environmental official in Goa has warned 45 iron ore mines in the Indian state Goa, mostly exporting to China, face closure as the validity of their environmental clearances certificates granted by the national government’s ministry of environment and forests has been called into question.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH the cost of raw materials for manufacturing rising rapidly, partly because of – but also in parallel to increasing energy prices worldwide, an industry that is both little known and very large is looking for ways to cut energy costs.…