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EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
WATER companies may be able to help the European Union and its Member States improve standards in the sector within developing countries, as part of an initiative to be launched by Brussels at the oncoming World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, this August and September.…
ANIMAL WELFARE
BY MARK ROWE
THERE is clearly something wrong with a law that allows a rare snake from Costa Rica to be sold in a church hall or for a reptile to be kept in a garage on a housing estate. But Britain’s animal welfare laws are, by the common agreement of just about every interested party, out-dated, confusing and, crucially, can actually cause more harm than good to animals.…
EASTERN EUROPE
BY ALAN OSBORN
WORK is a lot more dangerous and unhealthy in the countries that will join the European Union in 2004 and later, than it is in the existing EU. A study by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions finds there is “nearly double the risk to health and safety at work in the candidate countries.”…
ICELAND/NORWAY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STATE aid payments made to the aviation industry in Norway and Iceland, to enable companies to afford war insurance cover since the September 11 attacks, have been approved by the Surveillance Authority of the European Free Trade Area, (EFTA).…
SUDAMERICANA LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank has announced that it is investing US$100 million in Coumbian insurance and finance company the Suramericana Group; the investment is one of the most comprehensive projects ever undertaken by the IFC in Latin America.…
ICC SCAM
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE INSURANCE industry is being warned by the International Chamber of Commerce’s Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) to be suspicious of documents promoting policies using the good name of the ICC.
Fraudsters are mentioning a fake standard called the “Modified Insurance Guarantee ICC 4081,” used in fraudulent documents relating to bank guarantees and letters of credit to add credibility to fictitious policies and high yield investment schemes.…
E MAIL SNOOPING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN OFFICIAL Brussels working party set up to monitor European Union data protection legislation has called on businesses to take a balanced approach regarding their right to monitor the e mails of their employees, avoiding, for example, blanket bans on the personal use of the Internet.…
ICAO WAR COVER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNCIL of the International Civil Aviation Organisation has agreed to set up a non-profit service, offering airports, ground handlers and airlines third-party war risk liability insurance cover from US$50 million per insured, should the commercial market continue to withdraw such protection.…
SAFETY REFORMS
BY MARK ROWE
PEDESTRIANS and cyclists involved in an accident with a car would be covered by the insurance of the vehicle, even if they caused the incident, if proposed amendments to European law are agreed. Changes tabled to the EU’s Fifth Motor Insurance Directive by Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society – will go before European Parliament for first reading this autumn.…
HEALTH AND SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the operation of the European Union’s European Agency for Safety and Health at Work are being considered, as part of an overhaul of EU health and safety legislation and programmes. The EU Council of Ministers has signalled a wave of action in this area, welcoming the recent European Commission Communication (policy paper) on a new ‘strategy on health and safety at work (2002-2006).’…