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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AÉROPORTS de Paris has lost its last ditch bid to win a legal battle over its fees for ground-handling services, with the European Court of Justice rejecting an appeal brought by the company against a ruling from its sister Court of First Instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez water company and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

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

RATCHETING up security has been a prime concern of the nuclear industry since the September 11 attacks, with all countries possessing commercial reactors addressing the issue to some extent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REGULATORY approval for a proposed propylene-based oxo chemicals joint venture between German companies Celanese AG and Degussa AG could be held up by the European Commission, which has opened a detailed investigation into the deal. Both companies want to combine their production and sales activities regarding these chemicals, used as chemical intermediates, solvents and plasticisers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the reimposition of definitive anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of grain oriented cold-rolled sheets (GOES) and strips of silicon-electrical steel with a width or more than 500 mm from Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has dismissed claims that European law allows governments to automatically ban the use in wine brands of geographical designations that are not specifically protected because of concerns that they may mislead consumers into thinking vintages are from traditional wine-making regions.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WE are not inclined to disagree with those who say the enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 countries in 2004 is to be done on terms much less damaging to present EU farmers, and conversely much less favourable to incoming farmers, than seemed probable a year ago.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE FLOODS in central Europe last August and September took a tragic toll of lives, disrupted local economies and devastated numerous museums with the irretrievable loss of cultural artefacts. In Dresden, the worst hit city, thousands of artworks had to be moved when both the Zwinger Palace, site of one of Europe’s great art museums, and the Albertinum Museum became victims of rising floodwater.…

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.…