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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN an increasingly borderless world, the power of international intellectual property conventions is growing ever stronger and the garden trade is being affected by this trend as much as mining and IT.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned that world cotton prices are likely to be depressed should the US Congress approve the US Farm Bill as currently framed. The law will increase subsidies to American growers, boosting flat rate payments, loans guaranteeing farmers a fixed price for their crop and grants providing farms with an overall minimum income.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a European Union book-pricing directive protecting existing national systems from being undermined by cross-border sales from Member States which have no such controls.

In a formal motion, it has called upon the European Commission to propose this law, although the EU bureaucracy can ignore the appeal if it chooses; under EU treaties, the parliament cannot itself table legislation.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE MALAYSIAN government is to launch a new and powerful autonomous civil aviation authority in an attempt to kick start plans to transform the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport into a regional hub to rival Singapore. The new agency will have a remit to negotiate air service agreements with international airlines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN an increasingly borderless world, the power of international intellectual property conventions is growing ever stronger and the garden trade is being affected by this trend as much as mining and IT.

Take new plant varieties. In the EU, since 1995 Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) has been established.…

KEITH NUTHALL
HAULIERS who are forced to lay up for a weekend or during a public holiday, because of a proposed European directive limiting the right of EU Member States to introduce driving bans at sensitive times, should be provided with adequate rest facilities, a European Parliament committee has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LETS face it. The reputation of the European Union for taking firm action against crime is not solid. Rather it is known for issuing waffley communiqués that say what needs to be done, without saying when or how.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is to help set up an Islamic Financial Services Board to regulate and lay down standards for financial transactions throughout the Islamic world. A key aim of the project is to incorporate the special insurance tenets that exist in the Islamic business world into the wider capitalist system.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers will be forced into bankruptcy if they do not quickly get paid the money owed to them by the distribution arm of General Publishing Co. Ltd, owner of Stoddart Publishing and House of Anansi Press, according to a recent Ontario Superior Court document.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN UNCHARACTERISTIC failure to be punctual is the reason why the German government lost a bid at the European Court of Justice to overturn last year’s European Union directive on tobacco manufacturing and labelling.

Berlin officials had until last October 11 to launch an appeal against the law, which had been published in the EU Official Journal on July 18.…