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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE GOVERNMENT of Goa has made it compulsory for all mining companies to install Radio Frequency Identification Devices on the around 20,000 lorries ferrying iron ore around the Indian state to tally its production and exports. The proposal also includes connecting mining site and weighing bridges to the new mechanism for checking overloading of vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POLICY paper containing the European Commission’s proposed long-term reforms of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been leaked and seen by just-food. This ‘Communication’ on the ‘CAP towards 2020’ proposes making more environmental subsidies available for food producers and capping amounts paid to large agro-industrial companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has backed UN plans to create a global fund to adapt ports to rising sea levels, with contributions from the shipping industry linked to ship fuel consumption. ICS external relations director Simon Bennett said fund resources could be directed by the International Maritime Organisation to port environmental projects in developing countries.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

CANADA presents an almost unique challenge for providing nursing services. The second largest country in the world, with a population of just around 33 million, it has a population density of only 3.3 people per square kilometre. Given most Canadians live in southern urban centres close to the US border, expansive swaths of land are virtually unsettled and isolated from modern amenities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MJ DESCHAMPS, PAUL COCHRANE

MOROCCO is perfectly placed to be a major bio-based oils and fats exporter to Europe. It is of course very close – being separated from Spain by only nine miles of sea. And with its agriculture fed by plentiful sunshine and its rich fishing grounds, Morocco has huge potential to become a major oil and fat feedstock producer as well as an oils and fats manufacturer in its own right though its developed industrial sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Meat Trade Association (IMTA) has called for increased flexibility over European Union (EU) commodity crisis management so that soaring meat prices can be tamed by the European Commission, as well as price collapses. Its comments come as Brussels today released its anticipated proposed reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which include a new ‘safeguard’ power enabling the Commission to "take emergency measures to respond to general market disturbances…" This, said the Commission, would cover situations such as the recent e-coli crisis, with money being taken from a general EU fund called the Crisis Reserve.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the European Union (EU) debates the cost and orientation of its next multi-billion Euro and eighth framework programme for research, the European Commission has been releasing success stories about previous EU studies helping the paint and coatings sector.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA’S steel minister has confirmed to Metal Bulletin that his ministry has recommended that the country’s finance ministry makes a second increase of 10% in the iron ore export duty. Beni Prasad Verma said: "We want to discourage the exports so that the iron ore will be available easily to the domestic steel manufacturers."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MEAT industry was waiting this week for the formal tabling of European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) proposals on Wednesday, which were expected to maintain, and in some cases expand subsidies linked to production levels. The plans, whose earlier drafts have been extensively leaked, have shown the European Commission retreating from its pro-liberalisation policy bias of the last decade, promoting payments decoupled from the amount of livestock slaughtered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a new monitoring system for EU wholesale markets for natural gas, with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) being charged with detecting and deterring market abuse and manipulation.…