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AUSTRALIAN PAINT INDUSTRY



BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S paint and coatings industry has been enjoying a period of stability and steady prosperity of late, as a mature sector that is generally growing at the same rate as the country’s robust economy. Despite suffering the effects of the general downturn in the Asian economy after SARS and terrorism fears, the industry has remained highly competitive throughout the five-year period to 2003-2004.…

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EBRD POLAND



KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend up to Euro 55 million to Poland’s Dalkia Polska to help finance its acquisition of ZEC Lodz, a district heating and cogeneration utility for the Polish city of Lodz.…

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IAEA MEXICO



BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is an unlikely scenario: setting up nuclear devices to reduce, not increase, environmental pollution in one of the world’s filthiest cities, but it is happening in Mexico City. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has donated new air particle analysis technology called PIXE (proton induce x-ray emissions) to city authorities.…

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BIO FUELS THINK-PIECE



BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE WORLD is waking up to biofuels, increasingly produced from food crops and their waste by-products and now one of the growing energy alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. As prices for traditional energy rise year on year, and energy watchers warn of oil production peaking around 2010, governments are looking towards food producers to grow the raw feedstock for the fuel of the twenty-first century.…

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AIR NOISE CASES



Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission will take Austria, Finland, Italy, Germany and Luxembourg to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement a 2002 directive on aircraft noise. It mandates specific procedures regarding the introduction of noise restrictions at EU airports near urban areas.…

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CZECH STATE AID



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an in-depth inquiry into whether the Czech Republic paid illegal state aid to Czech steel producer Trinecké ?elezárny (TZ). Brussels will investigate whether the Czech government paid the proper market rate when it purchased in April a 10.54% stake in steel company ISPAT Nova Hut from TZ.…

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UN AUDIT OFFICE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…

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OLAF REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) always say they are getting a handle on the fraud that riddles their operations, but are they? Keith Nuthall looks at the latest annual report from EU fraud-fighters OLAF.

MEASURING fraud is notoriously difficult, given that the aim of this crime is to be as undetectable as possible.…

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BULGARIA GOLD/COPPER MINE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Dundee Precious Metals Inc US$10 million to modernise and expand its Chelopech Gold Copper mine and associated processing plant in Bulgaria. Its aim is to boost the complex’s processing of ore from 500,000 to 1.5 million tonnes per year, which it converts into copper/gold concentrates.…

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SALT MINE BACKFILL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHT of companies to export mineral waste around the European Union (EU) for storage in mine galleries has been strengthened by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Judges said a Belgian environmental regulator Institut Bruxellois pour la Gestion de l’Environnement (IBGE) should not have independently redesignated as waste for disposal salt residues destined for burial in salt mines at Teutschenthal, Germany.…

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