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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has helped broker a deal with seven Balkans countries involving them reducing the environmental damage caused by their mining industries, especially regarding non-ferrous metals. Welcoming the agreement, UNEP highlighted the potential problems caused by mining for zinc, cadmium, copper, bauxite, silver and gold in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and (effectively independent) Kosovo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED negotiations on further converging accounting and auditing standards of the United States and the European Union (EU) should follow next month’s EU-US summit in Washington, the European Commission has said. In a detailed policy paper, preparing for the June 20 meeting, Brussels said: “The EU and the US are convinced of the need to increase convergence and acceptance of functional equivalence in key areas such as accounting and audit standards”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED negotiations on creating a special immigration status of “trusted persons” for employees and employers travelling between the European Union (EU) and the United States should follow next month’s EU-US summit in Washington, the European Commission has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has helped broker a deal with seven Balkans countries involving them reducing the environmental damage caused by their mining industries. Welcoming the agreement, UNEP highlighted the potential problems caused by mining for zinc, cadmium, copper, bauxite, silver and gold in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and (effectively independent) Kosovo.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S federal health ministry has lowered maximum levels for lead and mercury in paints, enamels, varnishes, lacquers, shellacs or similar materials that dry to a solid film on the application surface. The lead content limit has been reduced from 5000 mg/kg to 600 mg/kg for surface coating materials used in or around the home on furniture, toys and other articles used by children.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NORTH American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) appeals panel has confirmed that the United States sunset review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian corrosion resistant steel exports wrongly concluded that this protection should be re-imposed.

The new panel rejected arguments brought by the US International Trade Commission that aimed to shore up its already dismissed claims that the Canadian industry had excess capacity that it could use in the future to hit “already weakened” American competitors.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHILE the consumption of paint, ink and colourings in Belgium is, like that in most other European countries, best described as “stable”, the country’s production industry is eying opportunities to relocate in cheaper regions, such as eastern Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SUDDENLY accountants are being held in unusually high esteem and it’s all because of their work in connection with the relief effort for victims of the Boxing Day tsunami. To date some Pounds 4.7 billion for the stricken countries has been raised worldwide but nothing like that sum has yet got through to the people affected; some of it stolen perhaps and some of it wasted, but a lot of it bogged down in inadequate financial infrastructures: step forward the big multinational accountancy firms who have provided staff, management and professional advice and training, a good deal of it on a pro bono publico basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PAPER released to the United Nations’ 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has claimed that the overwhelming majority of reported fraud cases are in the developing world, not rich countries. Furthermore, it claimed that – looking at 1999-2002 figures, 51% of such cases are reported in Africa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA), of the United States, is planning to authorise US food manufacturers to make health claims that sucralose can help prevent tooth decay as a safe alternative to sugar, adding it to a list containing other noncariogenic carbohydrate sweeteners.…