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By Alan Osborn
A threatened blockage in the shipment of all animal products from the EU countries to Russia has been averted following an agreement on veterinary certification reached at talks between the European Commission, the Dutch EU presidency and the Russian agricultural ministry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to sink US$3 million into buying a 30% equity stake in a new Russian life insurance operation. If Renaissance Life Insurance is successful, it could participate pro-rata in planned capital increases, bringing its total equity investment to US$ 11 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FORMAL ban on importing fur into the European Union (EU) from animals caught by leghold traps (and others considered inhumane) could finally be written into EU law. The European Commission has proposed a directive transposing international agreements struck in the late 1990’s with Russia, Canada and the USA, committing these countries to phasing out certain traps deemed particularly painful.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT might be one of the world’s smallest countries but you could hardly ask for a more emphatic turnaround from villain to hero in the fight against money laundering than Liechtenstein has managed over the last five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed calls from the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for increased European Union (EU) tariff protection against dumped styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic rubber (SBS). Furthermore, it has proposed abolishing existing anti-dumping duties on the product on Taiwanese producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is investing up to Euro 17.5 million in the Russian subsidiary of French dairy group Danone, allowing it to more than double annual production in Russia to 310,000 tonnes by 2007.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the policy portfolios commanded by the incoming European Commission from November generally spells good news for the European Union’s (EU) ferrous and non-ferrous sectors, senior industry figures have told Metal Bulletin. “In general … we are quite happy with the commissioners who will be responsible for industry”, said Gordon Moffat, director of the association of European iron and steel industries Eurofer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Euro 15 million to NPO Petrovax Pharm, a Russian niche pharmaceutical company, so it can build a green field plant near Moscow making new generation influenza vaccines for the ex-USSR market.…

Keith Nuthall
THE POPULARITY of Russian airports as stopovers for European airlines on trips to east Asia is to rise, with the Russian government agreeing to cut expensive fees charged for flights crossing Siberia. This came in a wide-ranging deal struck with the European Union (EU), helping Russia join the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has told the European Commission it wants a deal struck with Russia by September 30 on agreeing a veterinary certification system for EU meat exports that is acceptable to Moscow. Ministers supported the stance so far taken by the Commission in technical discussions with the Russian government.…