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ECJ BUDGET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) is to increase its budget by 50 per cent to cope with the increase in caseload and translation caused by May’s accession to the European Union (EU) of 10 new member countries from eastern and southern Europe.…
ECJ ANNUAL REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CASELOAD of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has continued to increase, with the institutions 2003 annual report saying that there were 561 new cases brought to the European Court of Justice last year and 466 to its sister Court of First Instance.…
LAW TRANSLATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has raised fears that citizens of some countries joining the European Union (EU) in May could defy EU regulations because they may not all have been translated into their national language. News service Malta Media has reported concern from officials working for EU enlargement Commissioner Günter Verheugen that the translation of the 85,000 page ‘acquis communautaire’ was behind schedule, especially in small countries such as Malta and Estonia, where few specialist translators are available.…
MANITOBA SMOKES
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MANITOBA provincial government in Canada has proposed legislation that would impose a total ban on smoking in all public places and indoor workplaces within province’s jurisdiction. If passed, the Non-Smokers Health Protection Act will come into effect October 1, of this year.…
WHO RATIFICATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has boasted that 100 countries have now signed its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, although only nine countries have yet to ratify the treaty. Of these, the world’s major developed economies are conspicuously absent, the line up including Fiji, India, Malta, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.…
LITHUANIA LORRIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LORRY drivers driving concealed cigarettes into the European Union are liable for duty, even when duped into smuggling, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The EU’s Community Customs Code requires drivers to declare all goods, “including those hidden in a secret compartment specially made for that purpose…even though the goods were hidden in the vehicle without their knowledge”.…
FLAVOURED CIGARS FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THEY’RE not to everybody’s taste, we quite agree, but there’s no doubt that flavoured cigars have a very devoted band of followers and can no longer be dismissed as a passing fancy. Indeed after speaking to a number of the big players it is easy to gain the impression that the flavoured, (or aromatic), segment has (along perhaps with filters) been the only one to buck the cigar sector’s trend of falling or stagnant sales in recent years.…
CAP REFORM - PLENARY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has supported its agriculture committee’s tough line over European Commission plans to decouple tobacco growing aid from production, by insisting that Member States be forced to transfer only 30 per cent of existing subsidies to direct farm payments.…
ICE CREAM SALE
BY MONICA DOBIE
OAKLAND-based, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings Inc. has bought the American arm of the Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop franchise business from General Mills Inc., which has retained the rights to make and distribute Haagen-Dazs in the rest of the world.…