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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius, has approved an international code of practice on ‘good animal feeding’, establishing a global feed safety system for livestock “in order to minimise risks to the health of consumers.” It advises on reducing environmental health problems associated with particular feeds, (such as antibiotics).…

KEITH NUTHALL
EMISSIONS trading plans for eight European Union (EU) countries – including Britain – have been approved by the European Commission, enabling 5,000 industrial plants to buy and sell pollution permits by January 2005. Brussels accepted national plans from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden unconditionally and another three – from Austria, Britain and Germany – on condition that technical changes are made, which would make them automatically acceptable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROUND-LEVEL checks on the thickness of polar ice caps are being staged by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess environmental monitoring data which will be culled by its oncoming Cryosat satellite mission. ESA has sent scientists to ice sheets in the north of Canada, Greenland and Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPERATE to offer Afghan farmers a lucrative alternative to growing opium poppies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is working with French company HD Investment to develop a rose oil fragrance industry. HD has committed $100,000 in start-up funds for the enterprise, following presentations by the UNDP and Kabul-based Altai Consulting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the vehicle leasing and management sectors whether it would like the existing patchwork of national passenger car taxation laws to be reformed and replaced with a more harmonised system.

Brussels is particularly keen to discover in wide consultation whether there would be support for replacing registration taxes with charges based on CO2 emissions, which would help the European Union (EU) meet its Kyoto Protocol global warming commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
‘CATCH me if you can’ might well be the motto of international money launderers. Despite laws criminalising the practice being well established, international organisations are continuing to extend their legal and geographical scope. Keith Nuthall reports.

IF a continent has need of comprehensive cross-border anti-money laundering legislation, it surely has to be Europe.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has called on African countries and the USA to swiftly agree a package of reforms to global commerce and subsidies in cotton production, within the scope of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha development round.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has launched a Global Date Palm Network to promote research and exchange of information on production and resources. The FAO says trade restrictions, pests and lack of know-how are causing low date palm yields.…

Keith Nuthall
NEW global technical standards have been agreed advising manufacturers how to design vehicles so that textiles used in interior construction are less prone to catch fire. They were agreed by the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius has postponed approving a comprehensive global regime on rules of origin, after a clash between European countries wanting tough rules and others preferring a looser approach. It expanded its rules to most dairy products beyond their present focus on powdered milk, however.…