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ESA PROJECTS
BY JONATHAN THOMSON AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is embarking of the development of a raft of new challenging projects, all of which are open to British involvement, notably a mission to Mercury – which could use the services of the University of Leicester Space Instrumentation Group.…
BELGRADE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced that it is to make a Euro 60 million loan to the municipality of Belgrade, which will pay for the upgrade of city water supplies and improve the efficiency and quality of district heating services.…
HEALTH & SAFETY INITIAITIVE
Alan Osborne
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published a series of good practice case studies from around the continent, in a bid to advise companies how to improve their record in protecting employees from harm.
Called Quality of Work: New Approaches and Strategies in Occupational Safety and Health, the report is available for free and focuses on initiatives in Britain, Spain, Ireland, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland.…
RUSSIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA has ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime, a move that could herald a tightening in Russian government policy towards the fighting of money laundering.
Signatories have to ensure that their national legislation provides for the confiscation of the proceeds of crime.…
TAKEOVER DIRECTIVE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing a new EU corporate take-over directive by setting up a high level group of company law experts and asking for preliminary recommendations by the end of the year. Brussels will propose a new directive to replace legislation that was scrapped in July when the European Parliament failed to approve it.…
AVON LAWYERS
BY MONICA DOBIE
DING Dong! Avon calling!
Traditionally, this familiar greeting of the faithful cosmetic lady would have women riffling through their mini-catalogues and choosing cherry red lipstick, ultra-voluminising mascara and skin firming creams but all that is about to change.…
FOE FIGURES
BY KATE REW
ENVIRONMENTAL group Friends of the Earth has criticised legislation being considered last week before the US House of Representatives, claiming that they would authorise more than US$33 billion over ten years in new and expanded subsidies for the oil, coal, gas and nuclear power industries.…
SIOUX CASE
BY KATE REW
THE FORT Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribal Nation in Montana have filed a law-suit against the gas pipeline company, Northern Border, for US$3 million in unpaid taxes, a case that could settle case law over whether oil and gas companies have to pay taxes to native north American groups, when they use their land.…
BIODIESEL
BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH Africa’s first bio-diesel refinery is to be built near Johannesburg at an estimated cost of R 83 million, (US$9.7 million), and is expected to produce 60,000 tons of diesel fuel annually. Managing director of Seed Oil Refinery South Africa (SORSA) Bernd Schmidt (SPELLING CORRECT) said that production would help decrease the country’s dependence on imported crude oil.…
SASOL
BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African Synthetic fuels company, SASOL is reported to be actively seeking further foreign acquisitions in the EU and north America, following its purchase of Germany’s Condea. A spokesman for SASOL said, “It remains the company’s corporate growth strategy to look for at synergistic alliances and joint-ventures on a global basis.”…