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SMALL UNRECOGNISED STATES CREATES HEADACHES FOR AIRPORT ADMINISTRATION



BY MARK ROWE, MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS, AND MOHAMMED YUSUF, IN NAIROBI

INTERNATIONAL civil aviation procedures are designed to create predictability. But they are not usually applicable for airports in territories that have declared independence, but have not achieved full international recognition, or a seat at the United Nations.…

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EU CONFIRMS BEEF EXPORTERS AS LOSERS IN NEW GSP LOW DUTY REGIME



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has confirmed key beef exporters Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay will be excluded from the European Union’s future GSP low import duty regime for emerging markets, as they are now too rich to benefit. Brussels has released a list of countries that will qualify for this special status and the Brazilians, Argentines and Uruguayans are not included, along with middle-income countries such as Venezuela, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and others.…

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REGULATORY ROUND UP - EU SUGAR QUOTAS COULD STAY AS CAP REFORM DEBATE HOTS UP



BY KEITH NUTHALL

PRESSURE is growing on European Union (EU) ministers to give the EU’s sugar production quota system a stay of execution. MEPs on the European Parliament’s agriculture committee have called for the retention of EU sugar quotas for beet farmers until 2020, rather than follow existing plans to phase them out in 2015.…

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INTERNATIONAL REGLATORY ROUND UP - NESTLÉ BOSS HAILS VALUE OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CEO of Nestlé has praised the role of international standards in managing his multi-national company, giving it a health-based legal framework within which its specialists can creatively develop new confectionery and other food products.

Speaking within an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) briefing, Paul Bulcke said: “Tastes may differ, but health requirements and minimum standards are the same the world over.…

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BOLIVIAN COSMETICS INDUSTRY POSES MAJOR GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPANIES, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD



BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN LA PAZ

STRONG growth in Bolivia’s personal care market is attracting an increasing number of both international and domestic cosmetics brands, capitalising on rising demand for products across all consumer demographics. This market success can be linked to the country’s overall economic growth in recent years, which has seen GDP rise about 5% per year since the country’s indigenous socialist president Evo Morales came to power in 2006.…

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BOLIVIA SEEKS TO GROW CLOTHING EXPORTS



BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN LA PAZ

Bolivia’s clothing industry is diversifying its exports as it looks to combat the challenges faced by the influx of cheaper products from China.

One of Bolivia’s leading clothing companies Aemprotex (the Bolivian Association of Textile Producers Entrepreneurs) has announced that it is expanding its production to boost exports to Venezuela.…

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INTERNATIONAL CADMIUM IN CHOCOLATE ROW SET TO RUN AND RUN



BY JAMES FULLER

IF evidence were needed to show how globalised the confectionery sector has become – then look at the row between Ecuador and the European Union (EU) over possible EU controls limiting levels of toxic metal cadmium in cocoa powder and chocolate.…

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INTERNATIONAL ROUND UP - EU SUGAR QUOTAS TO GO



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has confirmed it is scrapping sugar production quotas across the European Union (EU) in 2015 when proposing a comprehensive reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There have been calls from some member states and MEPs for the quota regime to be renewed, but the Commission has stuck to its guns and will continue with abolition.…

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VENEZUELAN BUDGET LEAVES UNIVERSITIES SHORT OF FUNDS



BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Venezuela’s so-called ‘autonomous’ public universities are claiming they will receive only a fraction of the state funding they require in 2012 under a new government budget, currently being finalised in the country’s national assembly. The universities claim they are being singled out because of their independence – they are public, but not under the control of President Hugo Chavez’ leftist government.…

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SCOTLAND SEEKS TO BECOME A KEY EUROPEAN PLAYER IN GREEN ENERGY



BY ROBERT STOKES

NATIONALISM and the energy industry have made uneasy bedfellows throughout history, yet Scotland is attracting substantial international investment in renewables despite having, since May and for the first time, a majority government committed to winning independence from the UK.…

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