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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a detailed fishing access deal allowing EU fishing boats access to the Atlantic fishing waters off west Africa’a Guinea Bissau until June 2006. Under the agreement, licences to fish shrimp will be granted to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek vessels, with boats from Spain (enjoying the overwhelming majority of rights), Italy and Greece being allowed to take fin-fish/cephalopods.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African diamond company De Beers has announced that it is offering a fourth small mining contract at its diamond mines in Kimberley. Currently the mines make use of three small mining contracting companies treating dumps to extract other minerals – such as silica – on a profit share basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) and the Organisation of American States have struck a deal, leading them to cooperate in the publicising of health and safety best practice that can be applied on both sides of the Atlantic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVEMENTS to water supply systems of the south-western Finland region of Turku are expected to attract European Investment Bank (EIB) funding, with plans being developed to lend the Turku Region Water Ltd (TRW) Euro 50 million. The money would fund improved river water intake, pre-treatment and build a transmission pipeline of 100 kilometres, plus boosting groundwater recharge and secondary treatment.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE USA could become a major pectin producer after a Penn State University (Pennsylvania) researcher developed a process to extract high-quality pectin from orange peels. The complex carbohydrate, used to thicken jellies and fruit fillings, has been traditionally slow cooked by Europeans using lime peels imported from Mexico and south America.…

BY RICHARD HURST
MOZAMBIQUE President Joachim Chissano has announced that his country would begin initiating steps to become involved in the downstream activities of aluminium production. Speaking at the inauguration of the Mozal II project in Maputo on Thursday (9-10), Chissano revealed that his government had been engaged in talks with various investors to fund aluminium-manufacturing facilities.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission wants to help the European Union’s (EU) textile industry increase its reliance on added-value high-end products to prepare for the oncoming liberalisation of the world’s textile trade in 2005.

With the scrapping of import quota controls through the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing opening the gates to cheap textile imports from developing countries, a new Commission Communication (policy paper) called for increased research and development in the sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Parliament (EP) committee has called for a significant boost in European Investment Fund spending on actions that suppress the growing illegal trade in bushmeat, which is threatening wild species in Africa, Asia and Latin America.…

BY RICHARD HURST
A REPORT from the South African Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) has said that the safety performance of the South African mining sector has shown a steady improvement. Overall deaths in the industry were 288 in 2002, compared with 285 for 2001.…

BY RICHARD HURST
A REPORT from the South African Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) has said that the safety performance of the South African gold mining sector has shown a steady improvement, with its 174 deaths and 3,268 injuries being an improvement on 2001’s 182 deaths and 3,374 injuries.…