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US BAGGAGE HANDLERS
BY PHILIP FINE
THE HEAD of the US Transportation Security Administration has signed an order banning collective bargaining by the country’s 56,000 federal airport screeners. James Loy has claimed that the fight against terrorism requires a workforce that can respond to changing conditions.…
COURT OF AUDITORS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ONGOING review of the European Union’s (EU) common market organisation in tobacco is to be a priority of the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors in the coming year. The job was highlighted in the key agricultural policy section of the court’s 2003 work programme.…
FRANCE ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening the French government with massive daily recurring fines if it continues to ignore a European Court of Justice ruling that it abandons its tax discrimination against Virginia-type tobacco, most of which is imported.…
OLAF INQUIRY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s anti-fraud unit OLAF has said it took part in preliminary investigations leading to the raids on Imperial Tobacco’s German subsidiary Reemtsma, which uncovered evidence involving allegations of cigarette smuggling. OLAF said it “welcomes the actions undertaken by the German judicial and Customs authorities to investigate the activities of a number of managers of a cigarette manufacturer in the regions of Hamburg and Stade,” adding it would “continue to make itself available to the German authorities for any further action that they consider necessary.”…
WHO NOMINATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation’s executive board has chosen its nominee to become the new director general of the UN agency. He is WHO insider South Korean Dr Jong-Wook Lee, director of the organisation’s Stop TB programme and the former head of its Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunisations.…
ECJ - NEW YORK CASES
BY ALAN OSBORN
THREE tobacco companies – Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and Japan Tobacco – have failed in an action in the European Court of First Instance to have the European Commission’s decision to open civil actions against them in New York annulled as illegal under EU law.…
SELF-EXTINGUISHING TOBACCO
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN tobacco companies may have to introduce a self-snuffing cigarette if recent federal government proposals are given the go ahead. New standards outlined in a consultation paper by Health Canada, urge Ottawa to insist that cigarettes sold in Canada are designed to burn at lower temperatures or self-extinguish if a puff is not taken.…
AZODYES
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to ban the chromate-based azo dye known widely as “navy blue” which is used to colour textile and leather products. The European
Commission said the chromate content of navy blue was toxic to aquatic
organisms, particularly fish, and was not easily bio-degradable.…
EIB LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is lending Euro 300 million to CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to finance the final phase of construction of its new Large Hadron Collider. The loan will also help to set up instrumentation to record and analyse the facility’s high-energy particle collisions.…
GRANDEY SPEECH
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
LOW uranium prices that are encouraging the international nuclear power industry are giving little incentive for the uranium mining industry to develop new sources, Gerald Grandey, President of Cameco Corporation, the Canada-based world’s uranium producer has said.…