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EFSA MOVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said it will move to its new permanent home in Parma, Italy, by 2005 at the latest, following the long-awaited decision on its headquarters’ location being made by European Union (EU) heads of government in December.…
SUPREME COURT - TORTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COALITION of major business groups has filed an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court, calling on it to “clarify” the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which they claim is being abused by special interest groups.…
UGANDA - ICC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) is a step closer to launching its first case, with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni referring the terror wrought by his county’s rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.…
ECJ EXPANSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE expansion of the European Court of Justice buildings in Luxembourg City is taking place, enabling the European Union’s (EU) top judicial authority cope with the additional workload created by May’s expansion of the EU. This accession of 10 eastern and southern European countries will require increased office space for these new member countries and their staff, plus greater courtroom capacity to deal with a growing number of cases.…
PANAMA REFORMS
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to provide Euro 6.65 million to Panama to help the country rebuild its judiciary system over the next 41/2 years. Brussels said the reforms were necessary because of numerous inadequacies in Panama, including the slow pace of legal procedures, the large number of persons (60 per cent of the prison population) under detention awaiting trial, and the excessive number of judgements overturned on appeal.…
CONTRACT LAW CONCERN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union should tread warily in moves to create a European body of contract law, lest it damage the health of the continent’s cross-border trade, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has warned. Speaking at a European Commission workshop, ICC specialists advised against framing detailed regulations, arguing that existing contractual law works well, especially when international contract models are used.…
EUROZONE DEFICITS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
1. THE stage has been set for one of the fiercest internal EU legal battles in recent years following a decision by the European Commission to take the Union’s member states to court over their refusal to punish France and Germany for breaching the euro zone rules last November.…
SRI LANKA BOOKMARKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A row has erupted in Sri Lanka after students in schools in the capital, Colombo, have been given free bookmarks in the shape of a beer bottle and carrying ribbons in the colours of a leading beer. Several hundred of the bookmarks, designed to promote beer brand awareness among boys and young men, have been distributed at school gates and main junctions near schools and are reported to be freely circulating among students.…
EBRD - CAUCASUS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
In what it calls a signal of confidence in the former Soviet Union, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is investing 20 million euros to promote beer, wine and mineral waters in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia.…
US WINE MAKING DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
Ministers of the 15 EU countries have agreed to a new rule exemption that will allow US wines to be sold in the Union even though the Americans use oenological practices that are forbidden under EU legislation. Similar exemptions have been granted to Australia and Argentina.…