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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT managers across the European Union can expect changes to their national workplace data protection regulations 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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EMPLOYER liability insurance policies will have to take account of 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.…

BY PHILIP FINE

HEINZ did something this year that its rival large USA-based food producers seem to be shying away from. They put their own name on an organic product.

One would think other US companies would have, by now, employed the same strategy as Heinz: use organic-friendly Europe as a test-market for an eventual US launch of an organic product, but the idea seems to be slow in catching on.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has closed competition investigations threatening the future of two international aviation cooperation deals: the Star Alliance of Lufthansa, SAS and United Airlines; and the KLM-Northwest Airlines compact. Brussels halted inquiries into Star after its partners offered to surrender slots at Frankfurt airport to allow competing services on the Frankfurt to Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco routes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN remained an averagely taxed economy compared with its competitor rich nations in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a new report from this international think-tank. It says that the share of Britain’s GDP represented by tax take remained at 37.4 per cent in 2001, the same as in 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL restrictions should be imposed on companies, businessmen, ministers and soldiers charged with involvement in the shameless plundering of the mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations (UN) committee established to investigate the problem has concluded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend US$3 million to the Armenian Copper Programme to help this joint stock company improve its production processes and boost profitability, with the final aim of making environmental improvements.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE WORLD is a very long way from establishing a global system for air traffic management, but at least some of the building blocks are now being put into place. We know that neither global regulation nor global management of air traffic is a realistic concept unless preceded by a number of fundamental changes in the way the two are handled institutionally in many countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has inaugurated new training facilities for developing country trade officials, a result of the Doha summit that led to the current so-called development trade round. There, governments agreed that officials from poorer countries needed assistance in grappling with complicated trade law talks, so they could play a full part in negotiations.…

Keith Nuthall
SHIP’S masters are always alert to the threat posed by stowaways, but not necessarily when those uninvited passengers have scales, fins and gills. Both the International Maritime Organisation and the European Union are working to tighten global environmental regulations that prevent the accidental transportation of such illegal aliens in ballast water.…