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BY IRINA PRENTICE

WHILE finding accurate statistics about the Libya industry is as easy as finding your way around the country’s vast deserts without a map, it is undeniable that this is a growing paint and coating market: the country is in full economic development which includes construction, boosting demand for coatings of all kinds.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

DOING business in a country wracked by civil war is never easy, and involves extra cost, but with care and good management, oil and gas companies can still turn profits in such circumstances. Sri Lanka is a good case in point: multinationals Shell, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Chevron Lubricants are trading successfully in this country, even as its government’s armed conflict with Tamil Tiger separatists reaches an expected military climax.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE RUSSIAN fishing fleet is to undergo the greatest restructuring of the industry since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Under the plans, which were approved by the Russian parliament – or Duma – this summer, a new, unifying state fishery corporation will have centralised control for all activities related to the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FUND managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has agreed to grant aid Euro 70 million four projects cleaning up nuclear contamination in north-west Russia.

As manager of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the EBRD signed the funding agreements with Rosatom, the Russian State Corporation for Atomic Energy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORWAY is being threatened with legal action at the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court over alleged discriminatory taxation of imported non-refillable beverage packaging. Under Norway’s membership of the European Economic Area (EEA), it cannot tax products made in other EEA states [the European Union and EFTA, minus Switzerland] differently from Norwegian products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH hauliers are still at risk when driving though long road tunnels on the continent, with European governments failing to introduce officially recommended safety designs and equipment.

So concludes the latest European Union (EU)-supported European Tunnel Assessment Programme (EuroTAP) safety probe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has sought to head off possible fuel price rises across Scandinavia by opening a detailed inquiry into a planned takeover in the region’s petrol station sector. Brussels fears the planned takeover of the Jet chain from America’s ConocoPhillips by Norwegian oil giant StatoilHydro, could limit petrol and diesel retail competition in Norway and Sweden.…

BY MARK ROWE

RUSSIA’S new-found belligerence and confidence is not confined to the political and military sphere: in recent years Russia has adopted an aggressive, take-it-or-leave it stance when it comes to fish, seafood and other food products.

The country has imposed a number of bans on fish products from its European neighbours, including salmon and other fresh fish from Norway, fishmeal, frozen fish and canned smoked sprats from Poland and a range of fish products from Latvia.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A FREEZING cave in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen on the Norwegian island of Svalbard has been converted into a high-tech bunker containing millions of seed samples, collected and stored to preserve biodiversity.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault will house 4.5 million samples of the 7,000 plant species used in human diets throughout history, including important crops such as wheat, barley and beans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORWEGIAN authorities are seeking to contain two outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus that has been reported amongst farmed rainbow trout in western coastal Fjordland by the Aquatic Animals Commission – (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE).…