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BY KEITH NUTHALL
RULES saying cotton seeds contaminated with more than 0.5 per cent genetically modified material should be labelled as such have been proposed by the European Commission. They are being examined by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on seeds, which has the authority to approve or reject the proposal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has started to get tough with the United States over the ongoing controversy regarding the use by Washington of air passenger data handed over by European Union airlines. Internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein said in a speech to the European Parliament justice and home affairs committee in Brussels: “We cannot let this process go on indefinitely.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RULES determining when certain seeds sold by garden centres should be labelled as containing genetically modified material have been proposed by the European Commission and are being examined by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on seeds, which has the authority to approve or reject the proposal.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN counterfeit goods manufacturers, who have traditionally regarded clothes and textile goods as prime and lucrative targets, have seen a six-fold fall in the number of goods they sell. The country’s State Customs Committee says Russia lost US$600 million last year in the sale of fake goods of all kinds, compared with US$1 billion in 1999.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA, Canada and Argentina have requested a WTO disputes panel be established to rule on the EU’s de facto five-year freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs. The three countries claim it is illegal under world trade law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
VIETNAM has launched an ambitious reform of its judiciary, which it wants to make more efficient and independent to underpin its drive towards doubling its gross domestic product in the next 10 years through a thriving private business sector.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Euro 20 million to Serbia’s Belgrade International Airport and the Montenegro Airport Management Company to upgrade their passenger terminals. The money would help modernise Belgrade airport, extending its existing building, installing air conditioning, replacing check-in counters, remote control and video surveillance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COURT monitoring network has been set up in Macedonia by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to promote judicial reform. It has persuaded 18 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to join its “All for Fair Trials” group.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NEW Montreal Convention on compensation for international air accidents is to come into force on November 4, following its ratification by the USA, bringing the number of countries implementing the treaty to the 30 required for it to become enforceable worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOURISM once was regarded as a key to the developing world’s ills, allowing poor countries to make money out of their natural landscape and cultural attractions, but as with most success stories, there is a downside. In some countries, tourism has boomed so suddenly and aggressively, the development it has sparked has threatened to go out of control, spoiling the delights that lured tourists in the first place and creating a host of new environmental problems for governments to deal with.…