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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation is considering changes to global oil tanker standards, which would insist that each space within the cargo area has permanent access to enable overall and close-up inspections and thickness measurements of ship structures. The reform has been framed because of the Erika disaster.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LEGALITY within the European Union of strict alcohol advertising laws such as France’s Loi Evin is in doubt because of an unlikely case at the European Court of Justice involving Newcastle United Football Club. The team is fighting legal action brought by Bacardi-Martini and Cellier des Dauphins, who claim they lost money when Newcastle programmed its revolving touchline hoardings to display their advertisements for swift 1-2 second intervals.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CIGARETTES have changed a great deal in recent years though not all smokers may realise by just how much. Once it was commonplace to roll your own, using local tobaccos. Today the market is dominated by filters and international brands, many of them ranking among the world’s best-known consumer products.…

Keith Nuthall
A REFORM of the EU’s First Company Law Directive has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.

The aim said the Commission, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public.”…

BY MARK ROWE
JIMMI Rembiszewski looks upon the transformation of Dunhill with some pride. “I was told that once a brand is in decline you may as well give up,” said BAT’s marketing director. “We have turned it around without reducing price and it’s enjoying an enormous revival.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency assembled team has been searching for two abandoned Strontium 90 generators in western Georgia, the Caucasus. They are highly radioactive and had been used by the former USSR military as thermo-electric generators for communication stations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend around Euro 100 million to Turkey’s ministry of national education, to help the country continue improving its primary schools by installing information technology equipment into 6,800 classrooms.

This plan is part of a much larger programme of the ministry to introduce IT classes in Turkey’s compulsory education system, which was extended from five to eight years by the country’s Basic Education Law (1997); the law also aims to boost quality in primary education.…

Keith Nuthall
A SPECIAL conference on settling a number of maritime border disputes in the Caribbean has been launched, which could help develop international law regarding the effect of uninhabited island on establishing exclusive economic zones.

One wrangle is between Venezuela and the Caribbean island state of St Kitts and Nevis, which has been protesting about maritime boundary treaties concluded by the south American state regarding the so-called Isla Aves; they grant the islands full territorial sea status, including an exclusive economic zone, or continental shelf.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank has announced that it is investing US$100 million in Coumbian insurance and finance company the Suramericana Group; the investment is one of the most comprehensive projects ever undertaken by the IFC in Latin America.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA Airports Holdings (MAH) has won a joint contract to build and operate a new international airport in Hyderabad, India, which is expected to be in operation by 2006. MAH will be involved in the airport’s planning, development and operation.…