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EU CONTRACT LAW NETWORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pushing ahead with its plans to harmonise European Union (EU) contract law, inviting legal practices to join a special policy-making network. This CFR-Net (common frame of reference) group will also incorporate consumer organisations and business groups.…
OLYMPIC ASHTRAYS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JOURNALISTS covering the Olympic Games have been the unsolicited recipients of 40,000 portable paper ashtrays distributed by UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to prevent writers discarding butts. “Since it is not possible to stop all journalists from lighting up, we would like to make sure they do in a way less detrimental to the environment,” said UNEP.…
ORDERED PICTURES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
“Pictures of new Commissioner for agriculture and health/consumer affairs”…
ASTHMA DEVELOPMENT
BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from the USA’s University of Arizona have found that asthmatic smokers not only have a higher risk of developing asthma, if they become asthmatics, they are 12 times more likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases such as severe emphysema and chronic bronchitis, than non-asthmatics.…
JTI-MACDONALD
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S JTI-Macdonald Corp. has filed for bankruptcy protection following a Quebec Superior Court order that the company immediately pay the Quebec provincial government CDN$1.36 billion in taxes owed from alleged smuggling in the 1990’s. Under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), JTI will not have to hand over money to Quebec’s revenue coffers as long as they remain under protection.…
INDONESIAN SMOKERS
BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE day I met Kadek he was sitting on the well-worn black saddle of his 50cc Yamaha, shades perched on his nose and obligatory Djarum smouldering on his bottom lip. “Transport?” he asked; the signature call of Kuta Boys who earn pin money from scooting tourists, frugal businessmen and journalists through the traffic-clogged streets of this fabled Bali beach resort.…
NORWAY DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has agreed annual duty free import quotas for Norwegian tobacco manufacturers of 370 tonnes for “smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes”. If ratified by the EU Council of Ministers, the deal would come into force next January.…
CANADA LABEL REFORM
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed further changes to its tough tobacco labelling rules in an effort to reach more smokers. Health Canada will create more messages, rotated bi-yearly, that will explain the effects of toxic emissions, whilst providing the benefits of quitting to smokers.…
BOEL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF the tobacco growing industry thinks it has suffered enough regarding reductions in European Union (EU) farm subsidies, then it could have a rude shock at the hands of the new agriculture commissioner designate, Mariann Fischer Boel, of Denmark.…
KYPRIANOU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AWARD to Cyprus of the key European Commission health and consumer affairs portfolio could signal a waning of Brussels’ enthusiasm for tougher rules against smoking and cigarette sales. Cypriot Markos Kyprianou, 44, has been given the job in the new Commission that takes office in November.…