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PAN-EUROPEAN WATER CONFERENCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out a gloomy message: we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…
ZIMBABWE FMD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOT and Mouth Disease has broken out in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland East province, an area of the country free of FMD since 1989 and from where farms have been allowed to export their beef. The Organisation International des Épizooties has reported 485 cases.…
MAINE SALMON CASE
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN federal judge was within his right to temporarily shut down state government approved salmon farms, a US appeals court ruled on August 7. The appellate judge had assessed a May ruling, where a federal judge ordered two Norwegian-owned companies (Atlantic Salmon of Maine and Stolt Sea Farms) to fallow their 12 farms from six to 36 months, after being fined for damaging Maine’s coast with excess feed, faeces and medications.…
PASSENGER FERRY LIABILITY
Keith Nuthall
THE PURCHASE of adequate accident coverage for all passenger ships operating in European Union waters should become mandatory under proposed EU legislation from the European Commission; it implements last year’s updating of the International Maritime Organisation’s Athens convention on passenger ferries, which limits the liability of a carrier for death or injury involving a traveller to around US$325,000 per passenger.…
WORKING TIME - ECJ
Keith Nuthall
LEGAL proceedings are being brought by the European Commission against the governments of Ireland and Luxembourg over their alleged failure to implement the European Union’s seafarers’ working time directive. Brussels claims that neither Member State has notified it of any legislation writing the 1999 directive into their national laws.…
WORKING TIME - ECJ
Keith Nuthall
LEGAL proceedings are being brought by the European Commission against the governments of Ireland and Luxembourg over their alleged failure to implement the European Union’s seafarers’ working time directive. Brussels claims that neither Member State has notified it of any legislation writing the 1999 directive into their national laws.…
ARGENTINA - FMD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has declared northern Argentina (north of the 42° parallel) free from foot and mouth disease (FMD), albeit with the help of vaccination, backdated to July 7…
RUSSIA LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIAN poultry outfit Stavropolsky Broiler has been lent US$15 million by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. The money will help the Agros subsidiary rehabilitate and expand commercial broiler production in the Stavropol region of Russia, improving bird breeding, strengthening management, increasing production, providing working capital, and expanding distribution networks.…
ENVIRONMENTAL NGO ATTACK
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE PRESENT European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi has sometimes been said to be ‘green-minded,’ in that it takes a more friendly attitude towards the environment than either its predecessors or the European Union member governments.…