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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNCIL of Europe has awarded its 2003 Museum Prize to the Laténium in Hauterive, Switzerland, which displays exhibits on the La Tène late Iron Age culture from central and north-western Europe. The culture is named after the nearby site on the banks of Lake Neuchâtel where its Celtic artefacts were first identified.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed an overhaul of European Union legislation regulating the use of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in decorative paints, varnishes and car refinishing lines, insisting on tighter and more sophisticated limits for emissions of pollutants from these products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The new European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will attempt to re-build public confidence in food safety throughout the 15-member European Union after the BSE and other scares by convincing consumers that the scientific assessment of risk is in the hands of a fully independent body with no interest in “cooking the books.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving closer to a deal with Switzerland, where Berne would agree to pay Brussels a withholding tax to avoid releasing information about EU citizens owning Swiss bank savings accounts. It wants avoid exposing these clients to tax demands from their home countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has initiated formal talks – the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation – over import restrictions imposed by the Indian government on a range or products including penicillin, its salts, and derivatives, rifampicin, streptomycins or their derivatives, and first aid boxes or kits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is planning to provide Italy’s EniPower with a substantial Euro 400 million loan to help design, construct and operate a series of combined cycle gas turbines which would provide electricity to Italy’s national grid and stream to associated industrial sites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN government has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to reform its regulations protecting computer-using workers from eyesight problems, agreeing with a European Commission claim that its national laws break directive 90/270/EEC for work with visual display units.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE IRISH government has been calculating the cost of introducing a carbon tax to fall in line with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and associated EU legislation. Its environment minister Martin Cullen said the price of complying with a target of capping greenhouse gas emissions from Ireland at 13 per cent of 1990 levels could be as much as Euro 260 million annually over a five-year period.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s financial watchdog, the Court of Auditors, has released its 2003 work programme. Its key priority will be to improve its Statement of Assurance, an auditing tool it uses to assess the management and scrutiny of EU spending, said court president Juan Manuel Fabra Vallés.…