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LEGISLATIVE REVIEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will review the European Cosmetics Directive, with a view to making it simpler to understand and operate. Officials are to identify provisions that are “burdensome and costly for users,” which can be scrapped without compromising the overall objectives of the law.…
PARALLEL TRADING CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RIGHTS of cosmetic and perfume retailers to sell re-exported products cheaply on the grey parallel market – against the wish of a manufacturer – are likely to be strengthened by an oncoming European Court of Justice ruling.…
UN - CYBERCRIME
Keith Nuthall
A REPORT published at the ongoing meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has asked delegates to consider whether the world should be protected by a global cybercrime convention.
Its aim would be to outlaw Internet offences in every UN member country, denying hackers and virus designers legal safe havens.…
SAFEGLASS REVIEW
BY DEIDRE MASON
SAFEGLASS SAFETY SMASH-BOX GLAZING
PLUSES: Prevents people injuring themselves if they have to break the glass
MINUSES: Could attract vandals no longer afraid of cutting themselves
VERDICT: An innovative product with real benefits for public and emergency services alike
COSTS: Depends on quantity and application but can work out cheaper in cases where toughened glass is used, for instance on buses for window-breaking hammers
Contact: Avril McNeill, Marketing Manager
Safeglass (Europe) Ltd,
Whitworth Building,
Scottish Enterprise technology park,
East Kilbride,
G75 0QD,
Scotland
Tel: +440 (0)1355 272438
e-mail: avril@safeclass.co.uk…
THE NET RISK
BY DEIRDRE MASON
MANY Health and Safety leaflets are going over their small and medium-sized business targets’ heads because the reading age needed to understand them is too high for their owners and managers.
Delegates at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ (RoSPA) recent conference at Birmingham heard Sandra Caldwell, head of the Health and Safety Executive’s Health Directorate, bring this surprising fact out in the open.…
smokecloak
BY ALAN OSBORN
(maximum marks for this one, I think. Only drawback – it’s only as good as the alarm system it comes with.)
Price (installed):
the 2000 model (155 cubic metres) – pounds 1,350
the 4000 model (250 cubic metres) – pounds 1,800
the 8000 model (400 cubic metres) – pounds 2,200
Contact:
Smokecloak
10 Cochran Close, Crownhill
Milton Keynes, Bucks.…
EU FRAUD REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUDSTERS are still fleecing the European Union’s budget of hundreds-of-millions of Euros, according to the latest European Commission fraud report. It says that Member States last year alerted Brussels to 2,400 new cases of fraud or irregularity affecting revenue collection, involving Euro 535 million, (of mostly import duties), and 4,200 cases regarding spending programmes, involving Euro 600 million.…
WORLD BANK & CORRUPTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL aid programmes are often regarded as a soft touch by criminals, who try to plunder their fat budgets, thinking that they are controlled by well-meaning innocents. Not so the World Bank; it has been investigating fraud in its development projects for years and it is getting tougher.…
DISTANCE MARKETING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSED European Union directive that would restrict spamming and other controversial online marketing devices for financial services has failed to secure approval at the EU Council of Ministers, despite having been tabled in 1998. A communiqué from the council for the European internal market said, that following a long debate, ministers were “not in a position to reach agreement by qualified majority on this issue.”…
UN - CYBERCRIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT published at the ongoing meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has proposed a series of short term measures that can be taken to strengthen international efforts to fight IT-related and cybercrime.…