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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally established the EU agency that will handle the EU’s participation in the ITER international fusion project. Called the European Domestic Agency, it will be based in Barcelona, Spain, has a current budget of Euro 9.6 billion, and has been authorised to work for 35 years.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
TASTES and trends come and go in cosmetics sectors, but the Japanese cosmetics market is arguably the most volatile of them all. With as many as 1,000 companies vying for a slice of the action – ranging from domestic names that have projected themselves around the world to foreign corporations bringing the chic of Paris or New York and small-scale specialists – the personal care products industry here needs to be constantly evolving.…

BY MARK ROWE
ONE of the prime motivations for Japan Tobacco’s takeover of Gallaher Group was to help the company establish a presence in Western Europe, where it figures only slightly. But the most seismic effects of the takeover may well be felt in neighbouring Russia, the world’s third largest cigarette market, where two thirds of men and a third of women are smokers, prices are low despite hikes in excise duties, and the habit has little of the social stigma attached to it in the US and Britain.…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul
LAST October, South Korea was admitted as an observer to the world’s premier group of money laundering fighters – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and given the nation’s recent moves to strengthen its anti-money laundering regime its path to full membership in approximately two years appears smooth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Japan have signed in Tokyo a wide-ranging 10-year nuclear fusion research agreement. It will enable EU scientists to participate in ITER-related studies in Japan, such as tests on reactor materials and computer simulation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXPERT space agencies worldwide have been encouraged by the United Nations to consider the risk of a collision between orbiting satellites with nuclear power sources and debris increasingly orbiting the Earth, littering space. The UN committee on the peaceful uses of outer space has published the first of a series of reports following a December resolution from the UN general assembly to consider the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is catching up with the United States in innovation, a European Commission-financed statistical report has claimed, although the US still has many significant advantages. This year’s European Innovation Scoreboard (2006) concludes: “The innovation gap between the EU [minus new members Bulgaria and Romania] and Japan, and in particular with the US is decreasing.”…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s proposal to simplify the organisation for milk and dairy products, announced last month, is already having profound effects on the industry says Dr Joop Kleibeuker, Secretary General of the Brussels-based European Dairy Association in an exclusive interview with just-food.com.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
A WORLDWIDE standard for automotive safety glazing may only be a few months away, now that suppliers have agreed on the content and wording.

The new draft standard was finalized at a January conference in Brussels under the umbrella of CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), with representatives from the US, Japan, Canada, Belgium, France and Germany taking part.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL cosmetics companies are increasingly casting an eye over south-east Asia. In the middle of the first decade of the 21st Century it would appear to offer all things to all companies.

With Asia (including nearby China) representing half of the world’s population and an economic growth rate ranging between 5 and 10%, many companies are interested in entering or developing these markets.…