Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of energy crops are put at an advantage thanks to subsidisation, direct payments and/or favourable tax schemes. Moreover, the EU is working out a mandatory certification scheme for ethanol imports, imposing social and environmental standards which constitute another hurdle for more efficiently produced ethanol originating in the Southern hemisphere. A similar path is taken by Switzerland's revised mineral oil tax l...
ITC and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have just released a handbook and diagnostic CD-ROM to make it easier for small, food product exporting firms to understand and meet food safety standards for international markets. ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems -- An easy-to-use checklist for small business -- Are you ready? helps firms looking to understand the ISO standard for food safety management, ISO 22000:2005. Since ISO 22000 incorporates the principles of "Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point" (HACCP) developed by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, certification to ISO 22000 also demonstrates compliance with HACCP -- a mandatory requirement when exporting some food products to specific markets.
... and Stock Exchange Act provides for a mandatory offer obligation in the event that a shareholder o...
Exporters and trade policy-makers in developing countries are increasingly concerned about non-tariff measures (NTM) applied by destination markets. These include a wide range of trade measures that are related to export, including technical regulations and other mandatory standards. Initial findings of the ongoing survey indicate that the impact of NTMs on exporters varies according to the country. Results from a 2008-2009 pilot survey, jointly executed by UNCTAD and ITC, demonstrated that technical measures -- including both sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade -- are a major concern for exporters. The survey found that 72% of all companies questioned in six developing countries reported concerns about technical measures. ITC will implement NTM surveys i...
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The idea of profiting from biodiversity conservation may seem strange, but this is in fact an essential condition for mobilizing private investment in conservation. Without profit, business dies and markets stagnate, notes a major new study, Building Biodiversity Business, which has been underwritten by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and Shell International. From forestry and fisheries to bioprospecting and ecotourism, biodiversity conservation can be profitable, the 164-page study suggests. It identifies business opportunities and proposals of concern to exporters, with particular emphasis on upcoming markets. The use of legally mandated biodiversity offsets is growing, and examples can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland and the...
...In addition to mandatory offsets, there is growing interest in the potentia...
.... People not subject to this mandatory insurance include the self-employed, certain emplo...
... sufficiently specific as to the truly mandatory character of conciliation to be considered as a ma...
... President's Sports Club, which holds a mandatory, state-owned majority share in Sport-Pari. . Enti...
... when a purchaser is required to make a mandatory offer for all outstanding equity securities of a t...
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