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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has further clarified European competition law regarding the operation of packaging waste disposal systems and when it will allow exclusive contracts to be signed with collection agencies for particular localities. Its advice has come in a decision to approve the packaging waste operation run in Germany by Duales System Deutschland AG, the only company that runs a nationwide system for the collection and recycling of sales packaging in the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEP’s are sticking to their guns in a political battle with European Union ministers over whether there should be EU legislation laying down noise limits or particular forms of transport operations across the continent. The parliament’s environment committee is resisting a decision by the European Union Council of Ministers to reject amendments that would have strengthened a planned noise directive, making it include commitments to set specific and binding EU noise limits for road vehicles, trains, rail tracks and aircraft.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL cosmetics companies will find it easier to export to China in the future, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEXT year, Avon customers across Canada will not only be enticed by beauty products but they will also have the chance to be advised on a variety of services from legal, travel and accountancy services to roofers and plumbers.…

Keith Nuthall
COMPANIES planning Europe-wide direct marketing campaigns using unsolicited e-mails, or spamming, will have to ensure that their mailing lists are sophisticated enough to tell where an addressee actually lives, or face possible prosecution for breaking national Internet laws.

This is the likely consequence of the decision this week by EU ministers to dodge setting an EU-wide legal system for spamming and cold telesales calling, said Jake Saunders, European director of technology analyst group Strategis.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SMALL and medium-sized businesses in Britain will have a new tool on their side to help them prepare and cope with economic change in the workplace, spurred on by factors such as new legislation, the demanding and ever-changing market of technology and the development of a multi-tasked workforce.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
A NUMBER of new products and services designed to improve internet security have been announced at the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference in London, against a background of growing world-wide concern over on-line security following the terror attacks on America.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
THE THIRD annual Information Security Solutions Europe conference has opened at the QE2 centre in London against a background of heightened tensions in the Internet community arising from the terror attacks on the US and a recent world-wide decline in investment in B2B activities.…

Keith Nuthall
BACKGROUND

IN traditional ‘old economy’ sectors the malpractice of ‘passing off’ is usually pretty tough to achieve. Setting up a shop or restaurant that looks similar to an established chain can entail a lot of expense and could end in a lawsuit preventing any trading going ahead, and maybe leading to a compensation order.…

Keith Nuthall
TIGHTER security measures are to be introduced in airports across the European Union in the wake of the terrorist destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre. The reforms were ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers for transport, sitting in emergency session, and will inevitably lead to some inconvenience and additional delays for business travellers.…