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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has suspended the shipment into the EU of de-boned and maturated bovine meat from northern Argentina following reports of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs in certain provinces. The European Commission said the EU’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health had voted in favour of the ban which will apply to meat from the departments of Ramon Lista in the province of Formosa and from General Jose de San Martin, Rivadavia, Oran, Iruya and Santa Victoria in the Province of Salta, where the outbreak has been centred, (it is close to the border with Paraguay and Bolivia).…

BY MARK ROWE
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has been given a final deadline to respond to allegations that the British government broke European Union (EU) law during its protracted dispute with Lloyd’s of London names. A plenary session of the European Parliament today (Thur25/9) voted to give the Commission until November 15 to provide its opinion on whether the First Insurance directive was properly applied by the British government in its regulation of Lloyd’s in the 1980s and early 1990s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THERE are many sights that one can rely on seeing in Paris every day. Patrons lining up at bakeries for fresh baguettes, traffic-filled streets choked amongst stunning architecture, perfectly lit River Seine views and busy cafes packed with people sitting, side-by-side, sipping over-priced drinks while watching other people walk by.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Duke Energy Corp, a diversified US energy company based in Charlotte, is in discussions with “several potential buyers” for its European natural gas business, the company has announced. It gave no details of the possible buyers or price.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE AIRPORTS Company South Africa (ACSA) has announced that it will spend Rand 3.8-billion on various airport upgrades between 2004 and 2008 at most of its airports across the country. Its five-year plan has been accepted in principle by the airports’ airlines, which will face increased fees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-FERROUS metal producers in the existing 15 European Union (EU) countries could see some lowering of labour costs after enlargement of the EU next year as low-paid Polish and other workers move into the higher wage countries like Germany, according to industry sources.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL from the European Commission to end Britain and Irelands’ practice of zero-rating VAT on children’s shoes has been rejected by London and Dublin. The British government made clear it would use the national veto available against European financial legislation to prevent the proposal becoming law.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.

The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…