Search Results for: International law

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to European Union law that would force all Member States to adopt programmes to fight the food poisoning and food-born diseases will be made tougher still, if amendments proposed by a key European Parliament committee become law.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SASKATCHEWAN provincial government in Canada has recently passed a restrictive act that prohibits the advertising and displaying of tobacco products in retail outlets where people under the age of eighteen are allowed on the premises.

Shopkeepers are forced to hide cigarettes from patrons by enclosing them in non- transparent cabinets, behind curtains or blinds or selling them from under the counter.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved the rules governing the operation of the International Jute Study Group 2001. It replaced the work of the old International Jute Agreement, which was wound up last October.…

Keith Nuthall
IN a groundbreaking legal move, the European Commission has proposed a regulation that would force courts and other judicial authorities across the EU to recognise an uncontested order secured by a creditor, for the recovery of owed money held in another Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DATABASE providing information about workplace smoking issues has been set up by the International Labour Organisation. It includes descriptions of relevant legislation, journal articles, books, government documents, reports, kits, case law, training materials, and analysis, including notes on productivity costs caused by tobacco usage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF there’s one thing guaranteed to get up the nose of most livestock farmers, it is bleeding heart animal rights campaigners claiming that they do not give a fig about welfare. And this is especially so when that most contentious of topics, live exports, is brought up.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is piling political pressure onto industries, especially fossil fuel electricity generators, which pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to force them to clean up their processes, adding costs to their bottom line.

In a move that will only serve to make CHP and renewable plants more competitive by comparison, the Commission is preparing a raft of legal cases against eight European Union Member States, to force them to monitor and restrict their production of key greenhouse pollutants.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has found that Italy has breached the EU’s 1991 urban waste water directive by allowing discharges from the city of Milan to be released indirectly into environmentally sensitive areas without being subjected to specific treatment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A PAPER released yesterday (Thursday) by the financial services of the European Commission says that supervision of the EU audit profession “must be enhanced” in the wake of the Enron disaster. “There are currently no agreed auditing standards in the EU and no European mechanism to deal with such supervision,” the paper notes, adding that the Commission will present later this year a Communication (discussion paper) on auditing strategy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CRIMINALS dream of a world without police and although such a concept might seem science-fiction, it is actually easy to commit offences away from the eyes of law enforcement: just hire a boat. On the high seas, there is no-one watching, which is why fishing crime is so common and difficult to detect.…