The framework for talks on industrial goods has many loose ends, and the text on services does little more than tell negotiators to try harder.

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But for an individual industrial or commercial consumer, this market provides a perfect framework in which to exploit competitive micro-generation.

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The proposals are based on the work of the Basle committee on banking supervision, which represents bank supervisors in the big industrial countries, and has spent several years designing a new framework to set minimum capital standards for internationally active banks.

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