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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.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ESTABLISHMENT of an International Foundation for the Law of the Sea has taken place at Hamburg, 21 years after the agreement of the United Nations Convention on the Law for the Sea. The Foundation will promote research, training and publications on maritime law, supporting the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, also based in Hamburg.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EGG prices in the United States are currently at a 20-year high, with some bakers associations claiming the wholesale price in some states has doubled in less than a year. Agricultural economists blame the lack of supply due to disease outbreaks in California, which saw thousands of egg-laying hens being destroyed.…

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.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
PROTRACTED talks between the United States and the European Union (EU) over allowable oenological practices are continuing to drag on, with the European Commission proposing that US exporters should be allowed to sell wine made in ways banned in the EU for another year (until December 2004).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.…

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
AN INTERNATIONAL development consortium is to promote sustainable cocoa production systems in west Africa, to make supplies more predictable for processors and profitable for producers, easing the sector’s recent price squeeze. The partnership includes the United Nations Development Programme, Conservation International and the World Cocoa Foundation, which have been working with Mars, Hershey, Nestlé and the Alliance of Cocoa Producing Countries, among others.…