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Keith Nuthall
RUSSIA has been advised, in secret, by the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf about whether it can claim maritime territory in the Pacific and the Arctic, enabling it to control the North Pole.

The UN agency has been studying geological claims lodged by Moscow that wide swathes of the Arctic Ocean are part of Russia’s ‘continental shelf,’ areas of sea that are shallow enough or contain enough sedimentary rocks to be legally defined as national territory under international law.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Commission energy officials have welcomed a recent joint declaration on natural gas by presidents Putin, of Russia, and Kuchma, of the Ukraine, as a “vital first step” in agreeing funnelling investment into improving the legal, safety and technical aspects of transporting Russian natural gas to the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RUSSIA-European Union summit has agreed that a timetable needs to be established to improve standards in the Russian nuclear industry. The two sides also agreed to frame a future agreement on regulating the import of nuclear materials into the European Union.…

BY MARK ROWE
THERE is clearly something wrong with a law that allows a rare snake from Costa Rica to be sold in a church hall or for a reptile to be kept in a garage on a housing estate. But Britain’s animal welfare laws are, by the common agreement of just about every interested party, out-dated, confusing and, crucially, can actually cause more harm than good to animals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved the creation of new import quotas for steel products from the Ukraine, which will last until December 31, this year. Imports into the European Union during this year will be limited to 27,414 tonnes of coils, 104,920 tonnes of heavy plate and 8,465 tonnes of other flat steel products; and for long products, quotas have been set at 3,690 tonnes for beams, 52,720 tonnes for wire rod and 66,427 or other long steel products.…

BY MARK ROWE
ANOTHER leader in the ASU30 and lights segments, the American blended Pall Mall remains BAT’s leading global mid-price brand, sold in 60 countries. Launched in 1900, it today sells particularly well in eastern and central Europe as well as Italy and last year saw volumes up by 21 per cent.…

BY MARK ROWE
LAUNCHED in America in 1954, Kent is now sold in more than 70 countries and remains the pioneer of the micronite filter. BAT’s premier free-standing lights brand has been earmarked to add competency to BAT’s portfolio in the premium, lights and Adult Smokers Under the Age of 30 (ASU30) segment of the market.…

Keith Nuthall
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to invest US$20 million in a Russian tyre manufacturing plant being built by France’s Michelin group; it is, says the bank, the first western tyre manufacturer to establish a Russia-based production line for the local market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has claimed that energy use is still rising in the European Union, mainly because of increasing transport consumption and has alleged that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions could return to their 1990 levels by the year 2010 unless Brussels and Member States take firm action; this would include promoting renewable energy, said the EEA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is joining with Raiffeisenbank Austria to set up a US$12 million pilot leasing facility, to allow Russian mining and construction companies to secure equipment from top mining machinery manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.…