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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT was with sound reasoning that the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE: ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) last year picked the paint and coatings sector to launch its new collection of CD compilations of its standards.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
INDIA’S possession of world’s fourth-largest coal reserves of 246 billion tonnes is marred in economic terms by a serious problem of high ash content and low calorific value that makes it almost unviable for steel industry use and expensive for power generation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JUNE 1 is an important date for the development of environmental controls within the international dying sector. On this day, probably the European Union’s (EU) most ambitious legal initiative designed to boost its environmental health comes into force – REACH, the Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals system.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ETHICALLY conscious consumers are spending more money on buying certified fair trade wine, although the marketing of other drinks certified to promote social development in poorer countries has been slower to grow.

Fair trade wines volumes are now respectable, with the London-based Fair Trade Foundation saying consumption is highest in the UK, with worldwide sales volumes totaling 618,000 litres in 2004 (bought entirely in Britain), and 1.39 million in 2005, with Britons buying 1.12 million of the share.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the key May 18 European Union (EU)-Russia summit in Samara, Russia, looming, the European Commission is continuing efforts to find suitable alternative energy partners to Moscow. Russia and the EU want to start tough negotiations on forging a new energy agreement, with both sides firming up their positions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured the Spanish government for failing to ensure the sewage treatment systems of holiday resorts Sueca and La Ribera, in Valencia province, comply with the European Union urban waste water directive.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE IRISH public place smoking ban has dramatically reduced air pollution in pubs according to a study from the Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society in Dublin. Dr Luke Clancy, institute director and four associates measured pollution levels of 42 Dublin pubs and health levels of 73 Dublin bar staff before the ban and one year after the ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is lending Euro 24 million to rehabilitate and expand a key soda ash plant in war-damaged Bosnia & Herzegovina to help invigorate the local economy, which remains sluggish, despite 12 years of peace.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo
As the world’s third biggest energy consumer after the United States and China, Japan has long been concerned with its lack of self-sufficiency in power generation. The low level of food self-sufficiency (40%), which has always been something of a national obsession, looks positively healthy when compared to the 16% level for energy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN and PAUL COCHRANE
WITH the European Union (EU) securing around 25% of its gas from Russia and natural gas being an ever more important fuel for thermal power plants, the failure thus far of the European Union and Russia to agree a new long-term energy agreement has to be of concern to the electricity industry.…