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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL accord providing for joint-research projects on transport air pollution has been struck by the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan and China. Aimed at creating a global system to measure such emissions, the deal will provide for joint vehicle testing and should lead to the next generation of European emission standards for passenger cars and light vans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUD is centre stage again in European Union (EU) news, following a series of high profile scandals, for instance in Eurostat. Now OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud agency has produced an annual report showing that it is detecting more irregularities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BEST place to break the law is where the closest policeman is 100’s of miles away. And where might that criminal utopia be? Siberia, the Sahara, the Amazon? No, it’s the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, on the developed world’s doorstep, where fishing crime is becoming a real problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL leaders in Brussels have been pressed to promote the planting of poplar and willow trees across the European Union (EU) to promote rural development, soil stability and biological de-contamination of ground pollutants. The call has come from the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), which runs a statutory body called the International Poplar Commission.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has tightened its meat import quotas for 2004 as part of a policy to cut food imports and encourage domestic livestock breeding. The Russian Meat Union said the approach had helped its poultry sector in 2003 and was being now being extended.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SHIPMENT of green onions from Mexico has recently killed three people and sickened more than 600 in the United States. The onions – served up at Mexican restaurant chain Chi Chi’s – carried the Hepatitis A virus.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States will become the largest wine market in the world by the end of the decade, according to the California-based Wine Institute. Currently, only France and Italy have more demand for wine and last year, whilst wine consumption dropped to 370 million cases in France, American consumers drank 14 million more cases, rising to 250 million cases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded project has developed a technical system to search and retrieve the increasing amount of information held in digital moving image video, still photograph or audio archives. Its coordinators say that the project will be very useful for museums and research institutes who store such material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has lost its appeal against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruling that had concluded the United States followed WTO rules when staging a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on Japan exports of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products.…