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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has started updating global health and safety standards for the fishing industry that have not been updated since 1966, some of which date back to 1920. ILO’s committee on work in the fishing sector has now concluded preliminary discussions on revising these guidelines which would better take into account working conditions in the whole sector from smaller coastal vessels to larger deep-sea ships.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the deadline for the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) security code passes today (July 1) with just over half of ships and ports in compliance, maritime insurers are considering whether policies should exclude coverage for shipping losses caused by failures to implement these rules.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD is a small place when it comes to business these days. Increasingly, multi-nationals, as well as medium-sized companies are setting up shop in all four corners of the world. Outsourcing work and creating offices in developing countries is de rigueur to cut costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS worldwide are scrambling to certify their international shipping and ports as compliant with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) security code, which comes into force on July 1. Figures released today (16/06) by the UN agency show that for the main flag states, 28.7 per cent of 21,374 ships now surveyed have had their security measures certified, up from 9.2 per cent on May 17 (for 20,722 ships).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHARE of nuclear power in the European Union’s (EU) energy source mix has been “projected to decline” over the next 30 years in the European Environment Agency (EEA)’s latest ‘environmental signals’ report. Despite the European Commission’s current enthusiasm for nuclear power, the EEA says that “moratoria and phase-out policies in several countries” will continue, biting into nuclear energy production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and multilateral organisations need to work together create more jobs in countries with high unemployment, to stem a growing tide of economic migration, says a new International Labour Office (ILO) report. It says that more than half of the 175 million international migrants registered by the year 2000 are unemployed, with numbers projected to increase.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards body Codex Alimentarius has called for comments on a draft global definition of feed additives in its code of good practice on animal feeding. Comments are required from member governments by June 18. The standards have been drawn up by Codex’s intergovernmental task force on animal feeding.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Environment Facility has approved US$233.4 million in grants for 25 projects fostering biodiversity, preventing climate change, managing international water supplies and fighting land degradation, organic pollution and ozone depletion. http://www.thegef.org/Outreach/Media/Press_Releases/Umbrella_news_release__5-11-04_ENG.pdf…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states search for a comprehensive withholding tax solution on preventing tax avoidance via savings accounts, the Council of Ministers has reformed how national tax authorities cooperate to fight fraud. The updated directive allows them to conduct simultaneous control checks on taxpayers operating in several countries of the EU, sharing information obtained.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RICH country farm subsidies are preventing developing countries from growing alternative export crops to coffee, whose price has been falling steeply, the World Bank says in a report Coffee Markets: New Paradigms in Global Supply & Demand. * http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/ardext.nsf/11ByDocName/PublicationsCoffeeMarketsNewParadigmsinGlobalSupplyandDemand…