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EU AGENCY PROGRAMME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HANDLING of dangerous substances at work and fishing are to be priority problems tackled by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in 2003. Unveiling its programme for next year, the Bilbao-based unit’s director Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, said that a European week on dangerous substances would be staged.…
OECD ROAD ACCIDENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALE-MENOPAUSE ridden men buying powerful motorcycles that they cannot ride properly is one of two reasons for a levelling off in a 10-year decline in road accidents in rich countries, an OECD report claims. The other problem is an increase in illicit drug use by drivers.…
TRAFFIC DATA LIMITS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has called on the European Union and its Member States to scale down and harmonise requirements that they are making on businesses to store Internet and e-mail traffic data to help police and intelligence services fight organised crime and terrorists.…
MONEY LAUNDERING & FATF etc
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO many cooks spoil the broth. Or do they? As far as the world’s fight against money laundering is concerned, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund think that they can bring extra flavour to the struggle waged by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…
CONGO REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…
GIBRALTAR TAX
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the British government to reform Gibraltar’s offshore company taxation rules by ensuring its ‘Exempt Company’ regime is phased out by December 2005 at the latest. Its action follows an inquiry, which led to the Commission concluding that the tax system constituted illegal state aid, banned under EU law because it unfairly favours one European company over another.…
SEA LICE - BC
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
INFESTATIONS of sea lice on Canadian fish farms is probably to blame for the massive decline of wild pink salmon in British Columbia’s (BC) south coast, according to a report from the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (PFRCC).…
LOBSTER TRACKING
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
MARINE scientists are tracing the 2,000km journey of billions of lobster larvae in the swirling currents off northern Australia, collating potentially important information about farming ornate rock lobsters. The project should also help safeguard the future of Queensland’s A$7m (£2.5m) wild fishery of the species.…
FISH DISEASE CARDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties, the global animal health organisation, has published a comprehensive set of easily understood information cards on all the main aquatic animal illnesses.
These are now available on line and include data on susceptible species, transmission, symptoms and treatment.…
CFP FISH FARMING PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s fisheries committee has welcomed European Commission plans to make aquaculture an integral part of the European Union’s reformed Common Fisheries Policy, while calling for some important changes to existing Brussels blue-prints. It has backed a report written by French conservative MEP Hugues Martin that calls for the EU to fund start-up subsidies in the sector for young people and also grants aimed at improving fish farming’s environmental performance.…