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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AROUND one-third of global meat exports – 6 million tonnes – are currently being restricted by animal disease outbreaks, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed. This could amount to world trade losses of up to US$10 billion (GBP 5.57 billion), if import bans extend throughout 2004, it said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MONACO is all about money. A glamorous speck of high-rises looming above the French Riviera, it is famous for wealthy glamour, tax exiles, racing-cars and gambling. Given this cocktail, it is hardly surprising that this, Europe’s second smallest country by geography, has attracted allegations that it has been the site of money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AROUND one-third of global meat exports – 6 million tonnes – are currently being restricted by animal disease outbreaks, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed, maybe losing world trade up to US$10 billion if import bans extend throughout 2004.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is fighting a legal decision it fears could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with no direct impact on the USA. It has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a DC Court of Appeals ruling allowing non-US plaintiffs to bring foreign anti-trust claims to American courts claiming a case might have a “direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on US domestic or foreign commerce.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has proposed amendments to a new European Union energy efficiency directive, that would force the European Commission to introduce tough electricity consumption standards for office equipment, heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems. These rules would be introduced within a year of the directive coming into force.…

Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) policies towards borrower countries will henceforth be influenced by their capacity to implement Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations on fighting money laundering. IMF directors have agreed these assessments “do not contravene the prohibition of the Fund to exercise law enforcement powers”.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
DEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing – the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – is tantamount to treason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST Europe-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water has been launched by the European Environment Agency and the European Commission. This European Pollutant Emission Register is available on the Internet and contains detailed information on pollution from around 10,000 large industrial facilities in the European Union and Norway, including large pig and poultry farms.…