Search Results for: International law
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WATER INSTITUTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW international water college has been founded in the Netherlands, with the particular aim of developing new techniques and technologies to secure future water supplies in arid areas. The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, is a joint venture between the UN scientific body and the Dutch government, which had run a purely national water institute on the college’s site.…
EU OIL STOCKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has again convened the European Union’s (EU) Oil Supply Group, as war in Iraq threatens the security of Europe’s oil deliveries. The panel’s experts discussed the risks of the conflict escalating and broadening into the Middle East generally, debating measures that would be required by EU Member States if Gulf oil and gas supplies were threatened.…
FISH QUALITY INITIATIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Trade Organisation in the midst of key negotiations to update its agriculture agreement, Geneva diplomats are often stressing the raison d’etre of the WTO Doha Development Round, namely that commerce helps the poor.
The idea is that by ripping down bureaucratic hurdles, duties and restrictive quotas for goods that developing countries produce in abundance – such as food – the WTO will provide their entrepreneurs with an opportunity to seize export earnings.…
CEDAR TREE BUGS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL team of experts has successfully controlled a newly discovered species of parasitic wasp that was threatening to destroy the Lebanon’s iconic cedar woodlands, descended from Levantine forests probably walked by Jesus Christ. From Biblical times to the Nineteenth Century, much of the steep Mount Lebanon range that towers over the eastern Mediterranean was cloaked in ancient cedars.…
CODEX FUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A US$40 million trust fund has been launched by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Health Organisation to help developing countries frame and implement Codex Alimentarius international food trade standards. The ‘Project and Fund for Enhanced Participation in Codex’ should run for 12 years.…
US ORGANIC MEAT ROW
BY PHILIP FINE
US organic producers are urging legislators to repeal a section of a new
law that waters down the definition of organic meat. The 2003 Omnibus
Appropriations Bill exempts those raising organic livestock from purchasing
organic feed if it costs twice as much as conventionally produced feed.…
WATER INSTITUTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW international water college has been founded in the Netherlands, with the particular aim of developing new techniques and technologies to secure future water supplies in arid areas. The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, is a joint venture between the UN scientific body and the Dutch government, which had run a purely national water institute on the college’s site.…
GULF OF FINLAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL financing consortium is to fund a previously abandoned Euro 166 million project to build a waste water treatment plant in St Petersburg, Russia. Its aim is to prevent pollution in the Gulf of Finland, which causes environmental health problems in neighbouring Finland and Estonia.…
RSI CONFERENCE
BY ALAN OSBORN, in Nottingham
INTRODUCTION
REPETITIVE Strain Injury (RSI) is still by and large an unacknowledged problem for many employers. The complaint is formally defined as “work-related upper limb disorders” and its most common symptoms are pain, fatigue and weakness, most often associated these days with sitting a long time in front of a computer screen.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s anti-fraud office OLAF has been called in to investigate financial corruption at the EU’s Committee of the Regions, the Brussels body representing local governments across Europe.
Its investigators are checking allegations made by Dutch socialist MEP Michiel van Hulten to the European Parliament that the record of financial probity at the CoR “can only be described as alarming.”…