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UN BIO-ENERGY SECRETARIAT LAUNCHED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SECRETARIAT running the United Nations’ Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) has been opened at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation. The body is charged with promoting bioenergy, helping international exchanges of know-how and technology, promoting policies and identifying potential funding.…
EC SURVEY WARNS OF FAKE PACKAGING BLACKSPOTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission global survey into counterfeit goods has revealed concerns about Mexico being a centre for the counterfeiting of fake medicine packaging and leaflets. The study of businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions was told the problem is particularly rife in the large cities of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey, along with the northern frontier zone with the United States.…
EU ENERGY COMMISSIONER ANDRIS PIEBALGS INTERVIEW: OIL AND GAS ISSUES
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL
1. The Commission is a keen supporter of creating increased gas storage capacities. But who should pay for developing these facilities?
The Commission believes that investment in storage should be left to the market, and the costs allocated through market forces.…
UN ADOPTS ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations unit is coordinating the introduction of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) accrual systems across all agencies of the global body. The UN Task Force on Accounting Standards is overseeing the development of implementation timetables, which must see all UN agencies and branches adopting IPSAS by January 2010, except for peacekeeping operations, which must comply by July 2010.…
CHINA ARGENTINE FOOD AND DRINK FAKES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEARLY a third of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeits of global brands, a new European Commission survey says. Businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions agreed: "For the confectionary business, the infringement causes more than 30% loss in sales value every year", and they stressed the difficulty of preventing such offences through legal action.…
UNODC OFFERS INTERNATIONAL EXPERTISE IN MONEY LAUNDERING FIGHT
BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S COMMONLY acknowledged that, whatever its merits, the globalisation of world trade and commerce brings with it vastly enhanced opportunities for money laundering. As the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) points out, in an online report explaining its work, the world-wide spread of inter-connected financial markets greatly extends the range of countries where anti-money laundering (AML) controls are absent or embryonic and enforcement is weak "and unfortunately, many countries particularly those classified as emerging markets, fall into this category."…
WTO RELEASES 2004 FOOD DATA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has released global figures on imports and exports of food commodities for 2004. See
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/agric_e/agric_e.htm, then ‘Data: Members’ shares of world trade in agricultural products’, then ‘G/AG/W/32/Rev.9.’
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ROTTERDAM CONVENTION GOVERNMENTS FAIL TO AGREE ASBESTOS RESTRICTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA, in alliance with Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, has successfully scuppered plans to place chrysotile asbestos on the ‘watch list’ of the United Nations’ Rotterdam Convention, a move that would have allowed importing countries to insist on prior consent before admitting any cargoes of this mineral.…
PERU HOTSPOT FOR COUNTERFEIT TOBACCO SAYS EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s directorate general for trade has branded Peru as a global hotspot for cigarette counterfeiting and smuggling. In a worldwide survey of intellectual property offences, Brussels has noted claims from the tobacco industry that 50% of tobacco consumed in Peru is smuggled and 30% is counterfeit brands.…
EC IDENTIFIES CLOTHING, TEXTILE COUNTERFEITING HOTSPOTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HONG Kong and China have been branded as the world’s serious hotspots for counterfeit clothing and accessories, in a global European Commission survey of countries where product fakes are manufactured. The Commission’s directorate general (DG) for trade gathered the information from companies, diplomatic missions and trade federations.…