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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation (IMO) is drawing up detailed guidelines on the recycling of ship scrap, which should be approved at the United Nations (UN) agency’s assembly next year. IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee has noted that while the principle of ship recycling may be sound, working practices and environmental standards in yards “often leave much to be desired.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECRETARIAT for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has released a report advising nurseries and customs officers about the world’s illegal trade in wild rare plants; the World Wildlife Fund says annual volumes are in the 100,000’s even millions.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED Nations’ (UN) International Court of Justice has fixed the disputed maritime boundary between Nigeria and Cameroon, having decided that the contested Bakassi Peninsula should be considered part of Cameroon.

The court ruled that the maritime boundary should be set from the point of intersection of the centre of the navigable channel of the Akwayafe River with the straight line joining Bakassi Point and King Point, with many elements following previous Cameroon-Nigeria agreements dating back to the 1970’s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECRETARIAT for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has released a report advising nurseries and customs officers about the world’s illegal trade in wild rare plants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECRETARIAT for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has released a report advising nurseries and customs officers about the world’s illegal trade in wild rare plants.

Said the CITES report: “This illegal trade can involve trade without documents and documents issued for different specimens and, very frequently, can involve fraudulent claims of artificial propagation that can be difficult for the non-specialist to detect.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 55 million to the (Greek) Republic of Cyprus to fund improvements to the efficiency, safety and capacity of air traffic control services in the Nicosia Flight Information Region.

Its loan will pay for buildings and equipment at the new Area Control Centre, Nicosia, replacing long-range primary and secondary surveillance radar, at Konia, and also replacing Larnaca’s instrument landing system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to tighten rules on ballast management for international shipping to prevent the transport and release of alien species that can deplete the stocks of native species through natural competition.

In a broad strategy to boost the marine environment, Brussels warned that Baltic fisheries were particularly vulnerable to the introduction of alien species, given the sea’s low natural biodiversity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to tighten rules on ballast management for international shipping to prevent the transport and release of alien species that can deplete the stocks of native species through natural competition.

In a broad strategy to boost the marine environment, Brussels warned that Baltic fisheries were particularly vulnerable to the introduction of alien species, given the sea’s low natural biodiversity.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE FINANCIAL framework of state regulated air traffic management is often perceived by the more commercially orientated air transport industry as inflexible and driven by supply rather than demand. This perception remains despite the widespread corporatisation of ANSPs, (air navigation service providers), which has pulled them away from the firm embrace of government.…

Keith Nuthall
EMPLOYERS will have to monitor changes to national workplace data protection regulations expected across the EU because of a wide-ranging and detailed public consultation launched by the European Commission.

Brussels has already concluded that there is a need to harmonise the widely divergent rules and practices amongst Member States, so legislation will inevitably be tabled.…