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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSULTATION round has been a launched by the so-called G-10 pharmaceuticals group, set up by the European Commission to consider ways of enhancing the industry’s competitiveness, whilst safeguarding patient interests.

Comments have been requested on a paper, which examines issues such as pricing, information to patients, cost-effectiveness, competitiveness, benchmarking, innovation and generics.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A EUROPEAN Commission report has tried to give local authorities an insight into how environmental policy can impact on the job market, dismissing claims that tighter rules destroy jobs. Instead, says the report, the effect is broadly neutral with expenditure on waste management generating direct employment in specialised waste management firms and other companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is being questioned by the European Commission over claims that its officials are breaking EU law by restricting the amount of tobacco brought into the country from other Member States. Brussels will use the replies to decide whether to start legal proceedings, which could reach the European Court if Justice.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A FEDERAL appeals court in the United States has dismissed a case against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, brought by the Canadian government, which was seeking to recover tax revenues allegedly lost because of cigarette smuggling through a Native Indian reserve.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the European Union’s general product safety directive have been agreed that will ensure that hotels have a legal responsibility across the EU to ensure that products made available to guests, such as toiletries and electrical goods, are not dangerous.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
AMERICA’S NATIONAL Cybercrime Training Partnership (NCTP), which has taught more than 4,200 law enforcement officers the basics of computer forensics, is offering its services to private anti-fraud investigators and is reporting positive results through arrests and prosecutions. The organisation was developed by the U.S.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SOME thirty years after the idea was first proposed, the creation of a European Company has become a reality. This new corporate entity will be authorised to operate throughout the 15 European Union countries under a single set of management, reporting and legal rules which will be binding throughout the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The decision was given impetus by a flurry of emergency meetings held in the wake of the disasters. In an extraordinary European Council in Brussels, the highest decision making body in the EU, presidents and prime ministers told the EU Council of Ministers for transport and for justice and home affairs to press ahead with pan-European security reforms “as a matter of urgency.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that the European Union is becoming increasingly involved in public water policy, legislating to control the environmental quality of water supplies and watercourses. Brussels ambitions to improve water services do not, however, end at the external borders of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXPENSIVE programmes and legislative initiatives made by the European Union to boost rail, shipping and combined transport, while shrinking the road transport sector, appear to be failing, according to a report TERM 2001, from the European Environment Agency.…