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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has supported proposals to allow Finland re-impose restrictions beer its citizens can import from Russia, because of fears about booming cross-border sales. Under European law, private travellers can normally import 200 litres of beer from third countries into Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 22 million to Serbia & Montenegro pharmaceutical company Hemofarm Koncern a.d. (Hemofarm) to finance the construction of a new solid forms packaging and production facility in Obninsk, Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-Russia agreement on the trade in nuclear materials should “establish transparent, stable and predictable trade rules” to boost the “interests and viability” of their nuclear industries, said a new European Commission report. Noting that this issue remains excluded from a Russia-EU Cooperation agreement, it is “causing dissatisfaction to both sides”, said the paper on the ongoing ‘energy dialogue’ between the two.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GROWING demand in Russia for urea-formaldehyde concentrate (UFC) to bond wood fibre materials has sparked a US$18 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). This six-year financing will enable manufacturer JSC Metafrax to build the UFC plants “needed to meet the growing demands of the Russian wood-processing industry”, said the EBRD.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will lend up to Euro 35 million to Croatian supermarket chain Getro, helping it add nine more stores to its current 15. Although this expansion will be in Croatia, the company will also use the money to explore moving into neighbouring Serbia & Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved spending Euro 7.9 million over the next three years on a joint action with the Russian government, aimed at reinforcing the protection of fissile materials at the Bochvar Institute, in Moscow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has frozen the steel import quota access for exporters from Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan at its 2004 level, pending the negotiation of new trade deals. These temporary quotas for 2005 will be automatically scrapped once these new agreements come into force.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production in 2003 reached a record high of 3.15 million tonnes, 75,000 tonnes more than in 2002, and although traded tea fell by 2.6% to 1.4 million tonnes, prices remained stable, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS a truly global criminal problem, it is only right that fighting money laundering is a key priority of the United Nations (UN). Its general assembly and key committees have made declarations and approved conventions on the subject, and its specialist agencies have also devoted time, money, specialist staff and energy to fighting the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified eight priority countries as sources of counterfeit goods as the focus of special diplomatic efforts to pressure their governments to deal with the problem. China, Thailand, the Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia will receive encouragement and advice on fighting counterfeiting.…