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BY ALAN OSBORN
ITALY has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to cease allowing its museums and other cultural sites to discriminate against foreign European Union nationals over admission charges for its museums and other cultural sites. The European Commission said that in following up complaints from the public it had concluded that “the scheme of preferential rates applicable to persons aged over 60 or 65 years for admission to various Italian museums did indeed entail discrimination.”…

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.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has established its planned fund to help developing countries afford improvements to their air industry security, the International Financial Facility for Aviation Safety. Its budgets are ring-fenced and will be drawn upon to finance projects identified by ICAO’s Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme.…

BY MARK ROWE
A SONG or customs passed down through generations by an aboriginal tribe can reveal as much about that society as a physical artefact such as their traditional clothing or funerary urns. But while these last two items can be preserved for posterity easily enough, the challenge to retain more intangible objects such as a musical story is far greater.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WAY back when….last December….the International Maritime Organisation agreed a compulsory maritime security code for its member countries, covering ships and ports involved in international trade. Governments have to write the code into their laws by December 31 and shipping companies and port authorities are supposed to comply by June 2004.…

BY MARK ROWE
IF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.

Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW international aid scheme – which will help fund the marketing of organic dyes made in developing countries – has been given US$2.5 million by the Swiss government. This BioTrade Facilitation Programme is to be administered by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Centre, (an UNCTAD/World Trade Organisation joint venture).…

BY PHILIP FINE

CONCERNS that an agreed maritime security code from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) could promote claims, on the basis that ships and ports failed to follow its terms, have been dismissed by a legal specialist. Barry Tarnef, responsible for global maritime loss control at American lawyers Chubb & Son, said the International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed in December, code could actually shield ship-owners from crushing settlements: "If you develop a security assessment protocol, it’s evidence that you are doing the best you can," he said.…

BY MARK ROWE
For the majority of Hong Kongers, Christmas comes a poor second to the Chinese New Year in terms of present buying – with a corresponding knock-on effect for book retailers. But even allowing for this, retailers have reported disappointing levels of sales over the Christmas period.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to acquire 35 per cent of the equity of one of the leading Kazakhstan insurance companies, Kazkommerts Policy (KPIC). The European Union’s EBRD, (the largest single investor in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union), said it was subscribing for 53,846 ordinary shares but declined to give a price.…