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Keith Nuthall
LEGAL proceedings are being brought by the European Commission against the governments of Ireland and Luxembourg over their alleged failure to implement the European Union’s seafarers’ working time directive. Brussels claims that neither Member State has notified it of any legislation writing the 1999 directive into their national laws.…

Keith Nuthall
LEGAL proceedings are being brought by the European Commission against the governments of Ireland and Luxembourg over their alleged failure to implement the European Union’s seafarers’ working time directive. Brussels claims that neither Member State has notified it of any legislation writing the 1999 directive into their national laws.…

Keith Nuthall
THE PURCHASE of adequate accident coverage for all passenger ships operating in European Union waters should become mandatory under proposed EU legislation from the European Commission; it implements last year’s updating of the International Maritime Organisation’s Athens convention on passenger ferries, which limits the liability of a carrier for death or injury involving a traveller to around US$325,000 per passenger.…

Keith Nuthall
THE PURCHASE of adequate accident coverage for all passenger ships operating in European Union waters should become mandatory under proposed EU legislation from the European Commission; it implements last year’s updating of the International Maritime Organisation’s Athens convention on passenger ferries, which limits the liability of a carrier for death or injury involving a traveller to around US$325,000 per passenger.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
THE SRI Lankan government has returned its international airport departure tax fee to SLRupees 1,000 (US$10.29), having temporarily raised it to 1,500 (US$15.44). The move had prompted criticism as the higher tax rate outstripped rival destinations in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new Galileo global positioning satellite project should command enough earmarked frequency to avoid interference problems, following the recent International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference. Its four weeks of negotiations set aside sufficient radio spectrum for Galileo, to the satisfaction of Erkki Liikanen, EU enterprise and information society Commissioner.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FROM Gaudeloupe, Arizona, to Duxbury, Massachusetts, and from Helena, Montana, to Loganville, Georgia, US smoking bans have increasingly been finding a small-town

following ; 78 towns and cities in the United States have now enacted smoking bans in all workplaces and restaurants within their municipalities.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN the days of the Soviet Union, many millions of men and women had a choice of one state-manufactured brand of shampoo, toothpaste or soap. If anything, the authorities managed to limit even further access to such “indulgences” as perfume.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROPOSALS from the European Commission to exploit the oncoming imposition of International Accounting Standards (IAS) on all multi-nationals operating in the European Union (EU) to simplify tax returns have been attacked by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an open consultation on possible changes to EU VAT rules, appealing for comments on a paper by its taxation and customs directorate-general. It considers shifting taxation from home base of a supplier to where a customer is located, if that person or business is also a trader.…