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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union will call at the oncoming World Radiocommunications Conference, being staged by the International Telecommunication Union at Geneva, (June 9 to July 4), for the earmarking of spectrum promoting advanced mobile telephony and broadband Internet services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CLEARER picture of the international funds and cooperation deals required to boost the reliance of the world on renewable energy sources has emerged from the first conference of the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition. The 80-country organisation – established at the city’s world summit on sustainable development last year – forged a consensus on the shape of financial instruments that could promote green energy worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has thrown out a bid by two environmental groups to stop the Norwegian government offering tax privileges to natural gas exploration companies working in the inhospitable Snøhvit field, off the far north coast of Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of an international joint-venture, manufacturing oxo chemicals – which are a key ingredient of many paints, varnishes and plasticisers – has been agreed by the European Commission. It has approved the 50/50 initiative involving German chemical producers Celanese AG and Degussa AG; it will trade as European Oxo Chemicals (EOC).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE PROSPECT of significant underwater monosite, ilmanite, rutile and zircon off the Sri Lankan coast has attracted the attention of 10 international companies, two from Australia, two from India and two from Sri Lanka. Their applications to mine the 11 heavy mineral seabed deposits, whose estimated worth exceeds US$330 million, are being considered by the island’s Marine Pollution Prevention Authority (MPPA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is lending US$700,000 to Cameroon petroleum transporter Sodetran-Cam Sarl, to expand and upgrade its fuel transportation trucks. It plans to buy 10 additional tanker trailers to boost its work with Cameroon’s Mobil Oil Distribution Company.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN labour tribunal has ruled that retail giant Wal-Mart broke the law by refusing to bargain with meat department workers whose local union branch had been essentially dismantled by the retailer moving to pre-packaging meat products.

The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Wal-Mart to bargain with a group of Jacksonville, Texas, in-house meat cutters and their union about the effects of the company’s decision to turn what had been a fully-equipped on-site butcher shop into a pre-packaged meat department, eleven days after a majority of the dozen workers voted to unionise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union proposals to make polluting companies legally liable for the environmental damage has taken a large step towards becoming law, with EU Member States approving the idea in principle, the European Parliament having already given its assent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities and water companies may be able to flout European law of bathing water quality, without facing the consequences, if the pollution problems they face are complex and intangible. That is the conclusion that may be drawn from a formal opinion issued at the European Court of Justice by advocate general Jean Mischo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN fish products are imported into Europe, and processed, when can they be marketed as European fish products? The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has been asked to rule on whether the defrosting, heading, filleting, boning, trimming, salting and packing of fish imported frozen whole from outside the European Economic Area (the EU, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) creates a product under European law sufficiently different to be considered of European origin.…