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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TENDER for the construction of a new shelter for the remnants of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 may be issued this year, according to Vince Novak, director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s nuclear safety department. He was speaking after a meeting of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund (CSF) consortium, which is financing the US$768 million Shelter Implementation Plan.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA and vodka are inseparable bedfellows but is there room for a ménage-a-trois? Its domestic market for beer is booming, while abroad both Russian immigrant communities and western European and north American drinkers are enjoying the novelty factor of a quality brew from the traditional home of vodka.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) report published to mark this week’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work has claimed that every year around two million lives and US$1.25 trillion of global economic earnings are lost to work-related accidents and illnesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is pushing for an acceleration of the phasing out of single hull tankers worldwide in the wake of the Prestige accident, where thousands of tonnes of crude oil spilled onto the pristine cost of Galicia, Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is pushing for an acceleration of the phasing out of single hull tankers worldwide in the wake of the Prestige accident. Indeed, in an unusual move, all of its 15 Member States have simultaneously proposed amendments to the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) MARPOL Convention, which would hasten their scrapping and replacement with safer double hull vessels.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Meat Institute (AMI) has called on the US government to clarify draft guidelines on how to operate a new labelling law, which will require the declaration of the name of the country where a food item originated.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a tendency amongst international business to think that the drugs trade has little impact on the real economy. Not so says a United Nations agency report, drugs harm legal commerce. Keith Nuthall reports.

THE INTERNATIONAL Narcotics Control Board has to encourage governments to take tough action against illicit drugs and it knows that nothing corrodes effective policing against illegal narcotics than the dubious assumption that the trade actually promotes sustainable development in poor countries.…

Keith Nuthall
UNILATERAL action by the Belgian government to ban night-time landing and take-offs of outdated aircraft using hush-kit mufflers is being challenged by the European Commission. It says that Belgium should impose noise restrictions on aircraft in a way that is harmonised with the rest of the EU, under a new air noise directive, in force from July 1.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of papers about boosting safety in aerodromes have been released by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). They were first published at a joint ICAO-Airports Council International workshop on the certification of aerodromes, held at Dubai, United Arab Emirates.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled a move within Europe to cutting subsidies promoting increases in fishing industry capacity, formally proposing that all such grants and tax breaks in the fisheries sector worldwide should be banned. Brussels has tabled such a proposal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on behalf of the 15 EU member countries, saying it was part of the EU’s commitment to sustainable development, which was a key goal of the WTO’s ongoing Doha development round talks.”…