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BY MARK ROWE
LAUNCHED in America in 1954, Kent is now sold in more than 70 countries and remains the pioneer of the micronite filter. BAT’s premier free-standing lights brand has been earmarked to add competency to BAT’s portfolio in the premium, lights and Adult Smokers Under the Age of 30 (ASU30) segment of the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MOVE to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids has been made by the USA, which has formally proposed that six species are exempted from controls under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…

BTY MARK ROWE
THE TOBACCO industry has not been exempt from the problem of young children working in developing countries. But in the past 12 months BAT has taken significant steps to address the question of child labour. Earlier this year it helped launch the Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation, which supports community-based initiatives to address the issue.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIAN officials have been overseeing the slaughter of 250,000 chickens on a large farm in Victoria, because of an outbreak of Newcastle disease. So far, reported the Office International des Epizooties, (zoonoses), health checks on surrounding farms within a 10 km radius had not revealed any signs that the disease has spread.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR years, the US government has played Mary Poppins on agricultural subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low. Now it is not really trying to pretend.

The mask has not just slipped, it has been casually pulled off and tossed aside.…

Keith Nuthall
MEMBER States of the European Union have 18 months to implement a new directive on collateral, which will harmonise national laws limiting credit risks in financial transactions through the posting of securities and cash as collateral.

In Brussels-terms, the new European legislation has been passed speedily, having been first tabled by the European Commission last March.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE FIRST steps have been taken towards making cigarettes – a cornerstone of small shop revenue – an under-the-counter product worldwide. Laws have already been passed in Canada and Ireland banning the public display of tobacco products, dismaying shopkeepers’ representatives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL governments of the European Union should be prevented from imposing weekend or holiday driving bans on lorries carrying fresh flowers or horticultural products on international journeys, the European Parliament’s transport committee has said.

Voting to amend long debated proposals regulating the ability of Member States to restrict HGV movements on designated international main roads in the so-called Trans-European Network, (to reduce noise and nuisance), the EP’s transport committee has proposed limiting these powers regarding the garden trade sector.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
BOSS Profiles Ltd, of India, a ceramic architectural products manufacturer in Pondicherry will launch a range of architectural ceramic products based on international patents. Boss said its existing IND Rupees 6.2 millions factory could manufacture 1.5 million square metres of product, to be expanded to 6.75 million square metres in five years.…