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DAIRY AID
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURO 127.7 in German state aid – enabling Theo Müller GmbH & Co to expand a dairy plant in Leppersdorf, Saxony – has been approved by the European Commission.…
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Security Council has been asked to pressure Serbia & Montenegro into restarting effective cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia. A letter from court president Judge Theodor Meron has attacked “extremely serious” persistent failures to help the court, such as failing to execute arrest warrants.…
CROATIA TRIALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRAINING programme for Croatian judges and prosecutors has been launched involving the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), to enable some of its war crimes cases to be heard in Croatia. The move will help ease the workload of the United Nations-backed tribunal which has been given until 2010 to wind up, preferably by 2008.…
COMMON DEFINITIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TOP European Commission official has called for the creation of a common European Union (EU) definition of the key legal concepts of “contract” or “damage”, as part of a ‘Common Frame of Reference’ for EU legal systems.…
SHANGHAI SMOKES
BY EDWARD PETERS
CRUISE to the top of Shanghai’s funkiest “shop, slurp and schmooze” conglomerate – a seven-storey, 88-year-old, restored post-renaissance pile dubbed Three On The Bund – and run an eye over the tongue-in-cheek menu at the “New Heights” restaurant.…
USA-UN CONVENTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the signing by the USA of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the 109th country to do so.…
ITALY FRAUD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHARGES have been laid against alleged fraudsters in an Italy-based cigarette smuggling scam costing European treasuries Euro 31.6 million in evaded duties. The public prosecutor of Asti, Italy, released details of the alleged con, involving 287,884 kg of cigarettes being smuggled accompanied by forged customs stamps being presented to Italian customs officials.…
EDMUNDO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CUBA cigar maker Habanos has launched a new Montecristo line, the Edmundo, which the company says is the first Cuban format of its size (135mm long and 52 ring gauge) launched in 30 years. Edmundo is the main character in the Count of Montecristo novel, which christened the brand.…
BYRNE BACKTRACK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-TOBACCO European Union health Commissioner David Byrne has retreated from previous calls for pan-EU public smoking bans, saying “to introduce it from Brussels might smack of ‘Big Brother’.” Instead, said Byrne, while praising his native Ireland’s pub smoking ban, “it would be better if it happened from the bottom up,” he said, respecting Europe’s “cultural differences.”…
COUNTERFEITING DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein has welcomed the final approval of a counterfeiting and piracy directive, helping tobacco companies suppress fakes. The legislation widens powers available to EU customs officials to seize fake goods and for rights-holders to secure financial compensation, injunctions, damages and the destruction and recall of illegal goods.…