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Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve the accession of the EU to the International Jute Study Group, which is to replace the organisation of the 1989 International Jute Agreement, which was wound up in October. The new grouping is due to start work in the New Year, having been formed by a conference staged by UN development agency UNCTAD earlier this year.(2001)…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE NEW Tokyo International Airport Authority has proposed raising landing fees at Narita Airport during negotiations launched recently with the International Air Transportation Association (IATA). The Shipping and Trade News has reported that the authority wants to raise its fees by Yen 200 per tonne to Yen 2,600, (US$20.84), when a new runway opens next April, citing increased labour costs.…

BY MIKE FOX
ENVIRONMENT officials and ministers from more than one hundred countries meeting at a United Nations conference in Montreal have renewed their commitment to trying to protect the world’s oceans from land-based pollution.

They framed a comprehensive communiqué, after hearing from an environmental body representing more than 400 local governments, which outlined how its members can play a major role in protecting the oceans.…

Keith Nuthall
AN INTERNET legal advice service for companies wishing to learn about European Union legislation affecting e-commerce, has been launched. The site, eLexPortal.com, will provide updated information on EU and national laws and regulations on the subject; it is free of charge, and allows users to e-mail queries to its online experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the insurance business being one of the most internationally sensitive of global economic sectors, it came as no surprise that the tragic events of September 11 had a dramatic effect on its fortunes, impacting seriously on the work of its regulators, especially in the European Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OUTGOING head of the EU Council of Ministers for research, François-Xavier de Donnea, has said he will write to US Secretary of energy Spencer Abraham to encourage Washington to join the ITER, (international thermonuclear experimental reactor), nuclear fusion project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission announced today (Thursday) that after three days of intensive negotiations an “historic” agreement has been reached with China on maritime transport. The deal is based “on the principles of freedom to provide services, free access to cargoes, and cross-trades, unrestricted access to an non-discriminatory treatment in the use of ports,” said the Commission.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN online book retailers are likely to be upset by the decision of the European Union Council of Ministers (finance) to approve its proposed new VAT requirement for books downloaded from the Internet. The system allows for online EU exporters to sell their goods without charging sales tax, but penalises websites based in the United States, (or other third countries), selling to consumers in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation has claimed that a probe of working conditions in Cambodian textile factories found no evidence of child labour, forced working or sexual harassment, but revealed problems related to overtime payments, working hours and union discrimination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AGREEMENT of a Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO), may not help museums gain access to treasures from shipwrecks and sunken buildings, specialists in the UK have claimed.…