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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) European Agency for Reconstruction will pay for the tagging of one million Serbia cattle to improve food safety and help the country increase its meat and animal exports. The tags will allow Serbian veterinary authorities to track bovine livestock from farm to market, helping them spot and contain disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has helped broker a deal with seven Balkans countries involving them reducing the environmental damage caused by their mining industries, especially regarding non-ferrous metals. Welcoming the agreement, UNEP highlighted the potential problems caused by mining for zinc, cadmium, copper, bauxite, silver and gold in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and (effectively independent) Kosovo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced it will help fund an overhaul of Serbia & Montenegro’s Sevojno Copper Mill, by lending Euro 16 million to East Point Holdings Ltd (EPH), a Cyprus commodities-trading company which owns 35% of the plant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) is financing three new assessments of Kosovo’s energy industry, focusing mainly on the autonomous Balkans province’s coal-fired power stations. The EAR, the European Union (EU) body aiding economic recovery in Kosovo, Serbia & Montenegro and Macedonia, will stage three studies:

*Examining the feasibility of building a brand new power station, which may use coal;

*Limiting the environmental impact of the coal-fired Kosovo B plant, currently the province’s main producer of electricity; and

*Studying the economic and technical feasibility of rehabilitating four units of the coal-fired Kosovo A power station.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has helped broker a deal with seven Balkans countries involving them reducing the environmental damage caused by their mining industries. Welcoming the agreement, UNEP highlighted the potential problems caused by mining for zinc, cadmium, copper, bauxite, silver and gold in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and (effectively independent) Kosovo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has limited duty-free sugar quotas for Balkans exporting countries at 180,000 tonnes annually for Serbia & Montenegro, 12,000 tonnes for Bosnia & Herzegovina, and 1,000 tonnes for Albania. This replaces unlimited duty-free access, which had been exploited by fraudsters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is to help create 10 alternative dispute resolution tribunals in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Serbia & Montenegro over the next four years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCING has been secured for a new international programme creating 10 alternative dispute resolution tribunals in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Serbia & Montenegro over the next four years. The International Finance Corporation (IFC)-coordinated project will immediately make permanent a pilot tribunal in Bosnia, having been given US$600,000 by the Canadian government; the World Bank agency also intends to firmly establish a Serb arbitration tribunal in the next 12 months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to pump Euro 16 million into a Serbian copper mill producing semi-finished copper and brass products. The money will be channelled via Sevojno Rolling Mill’s private owner, Cyprus-based East Point Holdings Ltd, which will use the loan to purchase new equipment and modernise existing plant at the rolling mill in Sevojno, around 100 miles south of Belgrade.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck a wide-ranging textiles trade deal with Serbia & Montenegro, where the EU will immediately abolish quota restrictions on Serb exports – including non-woven materials – for a phasing out of import duties on EU exports.…