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Keith Nuthall
FORMAL guidelines have been issued by the European Commission, which call on EU Member States to ensure that auditors should be banned from carrying out a statutory audit if they have any possibly compromising relationship with a client.

These, said Brussels official Regulation, “may include any financial, business, employment or other link, or any situations where the auditors provide to the same client services additional to the audit.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES are underway to restructure the Ukraine’s airline industry, with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development planning to fund consultants who would advise the country’s two main commercial players on how they could successfully merge their services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has blocked Italy from paying credits to its olive and olive oil sector, saying that it would be illegal state aid.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY carried out by France’s Grenoble University shows that European consumers are unlikely to be concerned enough about potential health risks to avoid buying clearly labelled GM foods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening a low 20 per cent tariff import quota of 10,000 tonnes of high quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef, from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, to help exporting countries, such as Argentina, fight pressing economic problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched a comprehensive research programme to unmask mysteries surrounding the contraction of venous thrombosis by air passengers, including epidemiological, pathophysiological and clinical studies.

Scientists will aim to determine the frequency and causes of travellers’ thrombosis, to identify who is at greatest risk and what may be done to prevent the condition.…

KEITH NUTHALL
HAULIERS who are forced to lay up for a weekend or during a public holiday, because of a proposed European directive limiting the right of EU Member States to introduce driving bans at sensitive times, should be provided with adequate rest facilities, a European Parliament committee has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s fisheries committee has called for the EU fish processing industry to be included in the ongoing review of the European Common Fisheries Policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GERMAN, Italian, Greek and Portuguese governments may soon be ordered to pass laws insisting that motorised outdoor gardening equipment used in their countries abide by European Union noise legislation.

Formal legal proceedings at the European Court of Justice has been threatened against all four governments by the European Commission, which claims that they failed to meet a July 2001 deadline to implement the directive 2000/14/EC on noise emissions from outdoor equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW pan-European pharmaceuticals company called Consilient Health has been launched in Brussels to help pharmaceutical companies from the eastern and southern European countries seeking membership of the European Union to integrate with its market and regulatory structures.…