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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids been approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Its member governments – meeting in Santiago, Chile – exempted six species from trade controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids been approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Its member governments – meeting in Santiago, Chile – exempted six species from trade controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HALF-HEARTED efforts by European Union Member States to impose controls on shabby shipping have been blamed for the disastrous sinking of the ill-named Prestige oil tanker, off Galicia, Spain. Placing on record their disgust at the environmental tragedy, the Council of Europe’s environment committee deplored “the negligence of governments and their lack of any real determination to provide themselves with the means of preventing such disasters – or at least minimising their impact.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT might seem a long way from South Hams District Council’s public tendering process to world trade negotiations in Geneva, but thanks to the globalisation process that upsets so many protesters with metal rods stuck through their noses, the two are actually closely related.…

Keith Nuthall
A CONSULTANT for the California wine industry thinks the US will be prepared to cut a deal at next September’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico over European demands for a mandatory wine and spirits register of geographical indications.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A CONSULTANT for the California wine industry thinks the US will be prepared to cut a deal at next September’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico over European demands for a mandatory wine and spirits register of geographical indications.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) is urging its government to take action against Indonesia’s ban on textile imports from all countries. The ATMI said the move flies in the face of international rules and its chairman, Van May, says a fair response would be for the United States to immediately prohibit all imports of Indonesian textile goods which totalled US$350 million last year, until the ban is lifted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has – somewhat grudgingly it appears – called off its investigation into alleged market sharing agreements between the large international brewers Carlsberg of Denmark and Heineken of the Netherlands. Brussels said it found no evidence that the suspected infringement continued after May 1995 and noted that under EU rules it had no power to fine companies where abuses could not be proved in the five years preceding the start of an investigation – in this case 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL scientists coordinated by the Munich-based Max Planck Institute for chemistry has discovered evidence of environmentally damaging high pollution levels over the Mediterranean Sea. They believe high levels of sulphate and soot particles in the troposphere could reduce evaporation of the sea and reduce the amount of rainfall in the Middle East and north Africa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSERVATIONISTS have welcomed a controversial United Nations (UN) report identifying wealthy western companies allegedly involved in wartime projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) they say may endanger rare great apes.

It says Barclays Bank, diamonds giant De Beers, British mining corporation Anglo American, Belgian bankers Fortis, South African miners Iscor, and the United Arab Emirates’ Standard Chartered Bank and 79 other companies have broken OECD multinational good behaviour guidelines by their association with mining, logging or road building in the Congo.…