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Only 10 firms account for 75% of agrochemicals sales, while the 15 largest drug companies have a market share of only 33% (Stinson, 1995). About 85% of fine chemicals are manufactured by companies of the triad the United States (28%), Western Europe (39%), and Japan (17%). Italy, with 4.0 million litres reactor capacity and 71 manufacturers, topped the European fine chemicals industry (Layman, 1993). Recently India, China, and Eastern-Central European countries have gained a significant proportion of the market, as a result of the lower direct labour costs and the more relaxed environmental and safety standards. It is fair to state that the high quality of chemists in these countries has also contributed to this development. In 1993, the cost of producing fine chemicals in India was 12% below that in Europe (Layman, 1993). 

ECPA is the pan-European voice of the crop protection industry. The membership includes both national associations and companies throughout Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to traditional crop protection products such as herbicides, fungicides and insecticides, our members also provide biopesticides and genetically modif ied crops. 

The regions with the largest trade balances are the EECA (Eastern Europe and Central Asia), the Caribbean Sea and Central America (Primarily Trinidad) and the Middle East (see Figure 3.20). The large trade balances are primarily due to the large resources of low cost natural gas in these regions36. 

At the supranational level, CEE1C and the European Commission became natural counterparts seeking to facilitate the transposition of chemical safety standards and market reforms in the sector. A position paper of CEE1C presented at the 1995 conference Competing in the New Europe Strategies for the Central and Eastern European Chemical Industry, highlighted the growth in trade of chemicals between EU and Central and Eastern Europe, as Central and Eastern Europe exports to the EU rose by... 

First, there will be ultimate supply potential of energy crops produced from surplus arable land in North America, Western Europe, Oceania, Centrally Planned Asia, Other Asia, Latin America, and Former USSR Sc Eastern Europe in 2050 (Figure 5). 

The ICCIDD has regional coordinators for Africa, America, Asia Pacific, South East Asia, China-East Asia, West and Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia and the Middle East. 

Russian Federation in relation to Eastern/Central Europe) and others have faltered due to the attitude of the one or other local actor (say, Cyprus or Sri Lanka), it is likely that the trend of settlements chronicled here will continue in due course. But what is the legal significance of this trend for the international legal order, beyond the recognition that self-determination conflicts outside the colonial context can be addressed in various ways if the relevant actors so decide ... 

Lampietti, Julian, ed. 2004. Powers Promise Electricity Reforms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Working Paper 40. Washington, DC World Bank. 

Lewis, Maureen. 2000. Who b Paying for Health Care in Eastern Europe and Central Asial Washington, DC World Bank, Human Development Sector Unit. 

UNICEF (United Nations Childrens Fund), Innocent Research Centre. 2003a. Changing Minds, Policies and Lives—Improving Protection of Children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Gate-keeping Services for Vulnerable Children and Families. Florence UNICEF and World Bank. 

The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) has been formed, consisting of nuclear plant operators over the entire world who have pledged to assist each other in the achievement of safe operations (25). There are four centers from which this international program is adrninistered one in the United States in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by INPO one in Paris operated by Electricitir de Prance one in Moscow operated by the Ministry of Nuclear Power and one in Tokyo operated by the Central Research Institute for the Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI). Through this mechanism, teams of operators from the U.S., Western Europe, and Asia visit CIS plants to share safety experience and know-how, and similarly, plant personnel from Russian and Eastern European nuclear units visit European, Asian, and U.S. plants. 

Eastern Europe, 9.5 x 10 and Japan, 9 x 10 . Mexico, Canada, Central and South America, China, and Korea also produced oxygen (3,21—23). 

World production of lead—acid batteries in 1988, excluding the Eastern European central economy countries, has been estimated at 9.45 biUion. The automotive market was 6743 million or 211.6 million units. Industrial battery sales were 2082 million and consumer battery sales were 454 million. Motorcycle batteries accounted for an additional 170 million or 25 million units. Most batteries are produced in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, but smaller numbers are produced worldwide. The breakdown in sales for the three production areas foUows. Automotive battery sales were 2304 million in the United States, 1805 in Western Europe, and 945 million in Japan. Industrial battery sales were 525 million in the United States, 993 million in Western Europe, and 266 million in Japan. Consumer battery sales were 104 million in the United States, 226 million in Japan, and 82 million in Western Europe. More than half of all motorcycle batteries are produced in Japan and Taiwan (1). 

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