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UK FISHERMEN TO RECEIVE REVISED FISHING QUOTAS FROM BRUSSELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has asked to approve new revised fishing quotas affecting British fleets following talks on the management of north Atlantic stocks. These have involved officials from the EU, Norway, Russia, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.…
UK FISHING QUOTA REVISIONS APPROVED BY EU MINISTERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has now approved revised fishing quotas affecting British fleets, include the right to catch 181,694 tonnes of mackerel from the Atlantic off the UK, Ireland, Norway, the Faroes, Greenland and international mid-Atlantic waters; 16,276 tonnes of horse mackerel from the same zones (except Norwegian seas); and 9,410 tonnes of cod off Norway.…
EU ALERT SYSTEM WARNS OF UNAUTHORISED ADDITIVE IN ALMONDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) RASFF food safety alert system has warned of two separate seizures by Norwegian customs of American almond exports because they contained an unauthorised food additive propylene oxide. Meanwhile French authorities have seized aflatoxin-tainted dried figs from Turkey.…
TURKEY RAMPS UP CAR SAFETY INSPECTIONS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
TURKEY is ramping up car safety inspections as part of its bid to join the European Union (EU). Last year, Turkey hired a consortium made up of a German inspection firm TUV-Sud; Turkish car importer and distributor Dogus Automotive; and Akfen, a Turkish construction company, to independently inspect motor vehicles.…
ICELAND AND NORWAY ARE EFFICIENT MEMBERS OF SCHENGEN ZONE - DESPITE LACK OF INFLUENCE OVER ITS RULES
BY MARK ROWE
THE AIRPORTS of Norway and Iceland are well suited to dealing with the impact of border-free travel with each other and many member states of the European Union (EU), having joined the EU’s frontierless Schengen-zone in 1999, abolished all border checks for travel to member countries in December 2001.…
RIG DISMANTLING POSES OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IMMENSE LEGACY DIFFICULTIES AND COSTS
BY MARK ROWE and SUZANNE KOELEGA
THE ISSUE of decommissioning rigs is an increasingly pressing one. According to consultants Wood Mackenzie up to half of the North Sea’s 600 installations – first installed nearly 40 years ago – are scheduled for decommissioning by 2021, while more than 4,000 are scheduled for removal worldwide.…
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS BEING DEVELOPED AT BREAKNECK SPEED
BY MARK ROWE
THE PRINCIPLE of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is of course well established amongst energy suppliers: polluting industries, such as coal, would be able to continue to burn fossil fuels, but carbon dioxide, rather than being expelled into the atmosphere, would be harvested in the energy production cycle and securely locked away.…
SCANDINAVIAN COSMETICS SECTOR CONFIDENT DESPITE WORLD ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
BY MARK ROWE
THE COSMETICS markets in Scandinavia, as elsewhere in the developed world, face an uncertain 2009. Iceland’s economic crisis is well documented but the few surviving local producers are presenting a determined face to the challenges they face. On the other hand, the markets of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark look likely to slow after healthy growth in 2008 (this growth almost universally excluded sunscreens, on account of the wet summer of 2008), but also to escape the worst of the problems.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP - GROUNDBREAKING TROPICAL TUNA PLAN ADOPTED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST major effort to limit the overexploitation of western and central Pacific yellowfin and bigeye tuna stocks has been made. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has approved a 30% reduction over three years of bigeye tuna catches and also a two month ban on floating platforms used to attract both species, which will be extended to three months in 2010.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP - ARCTIC FISHERIES INITIATIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONTROLLED opening of Arctic fisheries made more accessible because of the steady retreat of polar ice through climate change has been called for in a European Commission policy paper.
It wants "a regulatory framework for [those] Arctic high seas not yet covered by an international conservation and management regime before new fishing opportunities arise," saying no fisheries should be opened for any country until such controls are established.…