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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe has drawn up a set of standard meat cuts for sheepmeat sold in Europe and approved quality control guidelines on importing pineapples from west Africa to Europe.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE INVSTMENT arm of South Africa’s Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Worker’s Union has announced that it is to acquire a 7.24 per cent stake in Aspen Pharmacare, the country’s largest pharmaceutical group, for Rand 150 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MORATORIUM in the trade of illegally exploited Congolese minerals has been proposed by a panel of experts, which has examined how the stripping of resources by foreign military forces has prolonged the ongoing war in the country.…

BY RICHARD HURST
A PROCESSING plant that will convert solid waste from beer brewing into paper and pulp products is to be constructed near Pretoria, South Africa, a location selected for its easy access to export freight facilities at the country’s Johannesburg International and Wonderboom airports.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African National Ports Authority chief executive Siyabonga Gama has announced that the re-release of tenders for the building of a ship repair facility at the Richard’s Bay port, in Kwazulu-Natal, would be issued early in March.

Its construction is expected to cost between Rand 2 billion, (Pounds 122 million), and 5 billion, (307 million), directly creating 400 new jobs with an estimated 1,200 indirect jobs being generated in varied fields such as steel, electrical engineering and shop fitting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HOLISTIC global campaign against HIV/AIDS has been agreed by Rome-based UN agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the International Fund for Agriculture Development and the World Food Programme. The trio will work to minimise the effect on food production of AIDS epidemics in countries where the disease is particularly widespread, namely Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of the trade agreements struck earlier this year between the European Union and South Africa have been published by the European Commission, in two legal texts submitted to the EU Council of Ministers for formal approval.

Assuming this is granted, EU import quotas for South African wine will rise to 353,000 in the New Year, increasing gradually every 12 months to 420,200 hectolitres in December 2011.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PETRO-Canada, the country’s third largest oil producer, has proposed to spend up to CAN$5.8 billion on new oil sands projects in northern Alberta. The corporation has applied to regulators to develop its Meadow Creek lease, about 45 kilometres south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, at a cost of $700-million-$800-million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has fined 10 companies Euro 313.7 million for forming a cartel in the carbonless paper industry, the second largest such penalty imposed by Brussels. Arjo Wiggins Appleton PLC received the heaviest charge; Euro 184.27 million, with the rest being shared by Carrs Paper Ltd Euro 1.57 million, Papierfabrik August Koehler AG Euro 33.07 million, Zanders Feinpapiere AG Euro 29.76 million, Bolloré SA Euro 22.68 million, Mitsubishi HiTech Paper Bielefeld GmbH Euro 21.24 million, Torraspapel SA 14.17 million, Papeteries Mougeot SA Euro 3.64 million, Distribuidora Vizcaina de Papeles S.L.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending Euro 58 million, (US$50 million), to Vega do Sul S.A., to build a cold-rolling and hot-dip galvanizing plant in São Fernando do Sul, in the state of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil.…