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Keith Nuthall
THE EU Council of Ministers has, as expected, granted political approval to a hastily drawn-up proposed regulation on boosting civil aviation security, based on rules written in Document 30 of the European Civil Aviation Conference, Europe’s aviation policy development body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GUERNSEY has had startlingly high BSE infection rates since the onset of the epidemic, a new statistical report from the International Office of Epizootics has claimed; it shows that the Channel Isles jurisdiction has had often 10 times more cases per head of cattle aged more than two years than in mainland UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNET legal advice service, providing information 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
THE TRAFFICKING of endangered species, and other environmental crimes such as smuggling pollutants, is a billion dollar business says the Milan-based United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, (UNICRI), which has published a study on these modern scourges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Intellectual Property Organisation’s digital copyright treaty is to come into force on March 6, next year, after Gabon became the 30th country to ratify its provisions, the minimum number required to make it international law.

This convention safeguards the rights of authors whose works are published on the Internet and in other digital media, protecting literary and artistic works, including online books, computer programs, music, art, and films.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE’S Changi Airport has sold its stake in New Zealand’s largest airport, contrary to recent speculation that it was seeking to raise its shareholding in Auckland International Airport. Singapore Changi Airport Enterprise said in a statement yesterday that it had sold its 7.1 per cent stake for NZ$107 million, (S$81.3 million).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNICAL specialists are approaching agreement on international rules of origin for industrial minerals; these would state the degree of processing required for a raw material to be considered a new product.

The decisions would mean that worldwide, such products would in future be affected by duties, quotas and other import and export regulations relating to the country where they were processed, rather than where they were mined.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on conditions in the world shipping and shipbuilding industries makes grim reading. Clearly things were bad well before the attack on the World Trade Centre and the fundamentals have worsened since.…

From Alan Osborn
The fashionable term in setting up international energy projects these days is “flexible mechanisms” of which the best known is the trade in emission reductions, or carbon credits. The Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, which guides implementation of the Convention, laid down emission reduction targets for industrialised countries but allowed flexibility to meet them through the purchase of emission credits from poorer countries.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE JAPAN Association of Corporate Executives has called on the Japanese government to being forward the planned expansion of Tokyo International Airport at Haneda, asking it to agree a plan to enlarge its capacity by March 2002.…