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BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
BRITAIN’S National Health Service (NHS) is exposed to an estimated annual fraud loss of pounds 2 billion each year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ONGOING review of the European Union’s (EU) common market organisation in tobacco is to be a priority of the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors in the coming year. The job was highlighted in the key agricultural policy section of the court’s 2003 work programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending Euro 300 million to CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to finance the final phase of construction of its new Large Hadron Collider. The loan will also help to set up instrumentation to record and analyse the facility’s high-energy particle collisions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRADE deal smoothing Poland’s 2004 entry into the EU has been agreed, where the EU introduces duty free quotas for products including chocolate, biscuits and confectionery and Poland cuts its import duties for chocolate, biscuits and confectionery by 30 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties has confirmed an outbreak of Epizootic Haematopoietic Necrosis on a Finland fish farm. The international organisation has warned of 2,600 possible cases of European Sheatfish Virus on the farm, in south-eastern Finland, near the Russian border, on the River Vuoksi.…

BY PHILIP FINE

CONCERNS that an agreed maritime security code from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) could promote claims, on the basis that ships and ports failed to follow its terms, have been dismissed by a legal specialist. Barry Tarnef, responsible for global maritime loss control at American lawyers Chubb & Son, said the International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed in December, code could actually shield ship-owners from crushing settlements: "If you develop a security assessment protocol, it’s evidence that you are doing the best you can," he said.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THERE is an American company – St Lawrence of Florida – which will insure you against anything coming from outer space, be it an asteroid crashing on to the earth or abduction by aliens. The latter costs US$22.95 for cover of US$10 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission offered the US and other key trading partners at the WTO agricultural talks a 55 per cent cut in “trade distorting domestic farm support” subsidies, if they reciprocate with similar reductions. Brussels has also offered to cut its import tariffs on agricultural goods by 36 per cent and export subsidies by 45 per cent, while offering duty and quota free access for exports from least developed countries.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation has claimed that September 11 did not significantly dampen demand for air travel last year, releasing air traffic figures pointing to a two per cent rise in increase over 2001 for total and international scheduled traffic in tonne-kilometres.…