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BY DEIRDRE MASON
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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has become the latest international financing institution to announce a loan to Serbia’s power utility Elektropriveda Srbije. It is lending Euro 22 million to modernise the utility’s existing power control system. The move follows the announcement of a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan last month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation is to lend US$250 million to help build the key Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline that will carry EU-bound oil and gas into Turkey from the Caspian basin. The financing is a small part of the overall US$3.2 billion price tag.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have welcomed the European Commission’s plan to develop the EU’s first environment and health strategy (for 2004-2010), calling on Brussels officials to develop research models assessing the health impact of public policies, (and associated socio-economic affects).…

KEITH NUTHALL
A MEAT purchase tax imposed by the French government on meat retailers is illegal under European state aid law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. It said the tax, which funds the free disposal of carcasses and slaughterhouse waste, is a subsidy that places French meat producers at an unfair advantage in the European Union (EU) export market against competitors from other Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEAT purchase tax imposed by the French government on meat retailers is illegal under European state aid law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. It said that the tax, which funds the free disposal of carcasses and slaughterhouse waste, is a subsidy that places French meat producers at an unfair advantage in the European Union (EU) export market against competitors from other Member States.…

KEITH NUTHALL
CHINESE supermarket chain Wumart has secured the support of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) in its drive to expand, establishing10 hypermarkets, 32 supermarkets and 152 convenience stores in China over the next two years. The IFC is to invest US$6.5 million in Wumart Stores Inc, supporting its international offering on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE IMMEDIATE challenge posed by global warming to the petroleum industry – reducing carbon dioxide while maintaining low-regulated emissions – has to be combined with care that consumers can afford resulting new technologies and fuels, a Royal Institute for International Affairs’ climate technology conference in London heard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to an existing rapid alert system, warning European Union (EU) law enforcement bodies about the presence of a new narcotic drug, enabling them to take action such as controlling pharmaceutical and chemical precursors.…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE protests from a coalition of the major food associations, the US Department of Agriculture has laid out the specifics for its mandatory country of origin labelling (COOL) programme. The proposed rule identifies what products fall under the law and who is responsible for fulfilling them, with most cuts of meat and variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and dairy products required to carry a "United States country of origin" declaration at the retail level.…