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BAT SOCIAL REPORT
BTY MARK ROWE
THIS summer saw a watershed for BAT that may prove to be one of the most significant in the company’s 100-year history. It produced a Social Report, all 156 pages of it, outlining the company’s views on the sensitive issues that surround the business of producing tobacco.…
ECB REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank, which has resisted granting EU anti-fraud unit OLAF complete rights to investigate its dealings, has given itself a clear bill of health regarding fraud. The whiter-than-white assessment, (to quote former European Commission president Jacques Santer), came from the bank’s own anti-fraud committee.…
WHO GONG
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Health Organisation boss Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland has presented international football federation FIFA with her Director General’s Award for opposing tobacco use, following the banning of smoking and cigarette advertising at this year’s World Cup. Previous recipients of the award have included the King of Thailand and the current Foreign Minister of South Africa.…
FINLAND ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STONE discards stored by a quarry for future sales, should be classified as waste under European Union regulations, even if they do not “pose any real risk to human health or the environment” the European Court of Justice has ruled.…
WTO ROUND CONFERENCE
BY MARK ROWE
IT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world’s poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers.…
MALARIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation is advising countries experiencing a rise in resistance amongst malaria mosquitos to conventional medicines, such as chloroquine, to start promoting new combination treatment. These Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies are derived in part from a Chinese herb, killing malaria parasites very fast, allowing patients to recover rapidly with few side effects.…
CANNABIS MEDICINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT on the international conventions and European and national laws controlling the use of cannabis as a medicine, has been released by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. The paper offers a legal analysis of the options and limitations of using medicinal cannabis and its derivatives in the EU, as well as noting current practice.…
ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
ALMOST three quarters of Britain’s firms carry out little or no investigation into workplace accidents according to a study whose results were revealed at a major safety conference today.
Dr David Embrey, managing director of consultancy firm Human Reliability Associates (HRA), told the RoSPA Safety and Health at Work Congress 2002 that the findings would fuel pressure for legislation requiring all organisations to carry out proper accident inquiries.…
ASBESTOS - ROSPA
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
TWO-THIRDS of those landlords and property owners responsible for non-domestic premises in Britain fail to manage the risks associated with asbestos in buildings, a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) official has claimed.
Bill Macdonald, who heads the HSE unit responsible for asbestos policy, told delegates at the RoSPA Congress 2002, in Birmingham, that legislation that will soon come into force was necessary because of the widespread failure to manage.…
TRIPS PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a plan to break the World Trade Organisation deadlock over changes to its TRIPS regime (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights), which would allow developing countries to licence imported generic drugs in emergencies, while protecting the global pharmaceutical sector.…