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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has released guidelines on how printers can stay within the law when reproducing Euro banknotes, whether as a specimen or as part of a design. The rules, said a bank memorandum: “grant adequate protection to euro banknotes and avoid reproductions being confused with genuine banknotes.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is granting 512 meat processing establishments in six eastern European countries additional time to bring their health standards in line with European Union law once their home states join the EU next May.

A memorandum released by the European Commission’s enlargement directorate general, says that 332 of these operations are in Poland, where the deadline for compliance has been extended to December 2007; 14 establishments in Lithuania have until January 2007.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AN UNUDUAL and significant announcement was made by the European Commission earlier this month (April 2nd) and it should be required reading for any-one who thinks that Brussels is frightened of France when it comes to farming matters.…

BY PHILIP FINE AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA government has finalised procedures for framing safeguard protection minimising the impacts on the American textile industry from Chinese imports, with details due to be released soon. US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Grant Aldonas said requesters of protection would have to provide to CITA (the US Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements) specific information supporting a claim of market disruption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given the go-ahead for the acquisition by Gaz de France (GDF) of the German oil and gas activities of Preussag Energie. Brussels has been examining the potential effect on competition in Germany’s upstream energy market and concluded that these were “only small.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

TEAMS of microbiologists have concluded that it is not just unsafe to swim in sewage infiltrated waters, but that the amount of sickness caused by such pollution is actually far more predictable than previously thought. The findings have prompted them to call for global health-based legislation on the quality of the world’s bathing waters.…

Keith Nuthall
JAPAN’S Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has announced the first increase in daily landing slots at Tokyo International Airport, Haneda, since 2000, up by 14 to 391, from July. A Nihon Keizai Shimbun report says air traffic control improvements have broadened capacity, with slots being preferentially distributed amongst new market entrants, such as Hokkaido International Airlines (Air Do) and Sky-Net Asia Airways, the remainder being provisionally earmarked for Japan Airlines System Corp and All Nippon Airways.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned the globalisation of utility sectors is cutting jobs in gas distribution, with only the roll-out of new services in developing countries generating employment. ILO’s ‘Challenges and Opportunities Facing Public Utilities’ calls for more public consultation when preparing major changes, such as privatisation and liberalisation.*…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s funding institutions are increasingly financially assisting the former USSR’s oil industry. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$80 million loan to a key subsidiary of Russia’s Lukoil group – CSJC Lukoil-Perm – to help it cut gas flaring to 20 per cent by 2005, compared with 52 per cent at typical Russian oilfields.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers yesterday (Wednesday) formally agreed an amending directive that will allow member countries which do not apply International Accounting Standards (IAS) to all companies to bring in matching transparent, high quality financial reporting, so preparing the way for like-for-like financial comparisons throughout the EU.…