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COCOA DEAL



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to formally ratify the new International Cocoa Agreement 2001.…

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BASQUE TAXES



Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made it clear that it will not countenance the creation of certain special tax regimes within the European Union for so-called coordination centres, that provide services including banking, marketing, insurance and logistics to companies within an international group.…

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RULES OF ORIGIN



BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROPOSED international regulations that would have ruled a new product is legally created when tobaccos are blended will probably be rejected, with the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation rules of origin committee recommending that they be deleted.…

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HEALTH AND SAFETY



BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN unkind moments, critics of the insurance industry might say that the sector revels in misfortune, making money out of pessimism and encouraging its clients to prepare for the worst. Of course, like most unconditional statements about business, the truth is far off and is a lot more murky.…

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EU MID-TERM REPORT



BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE ROMANO Prodi-led European Commission has received a mid-term report from senior environmental groups within the European Union and it contains a mixture of bouquets and brickbats. It written by the Green 8, a coalition that includes the European Environmental Bureau, the European Federation for Transport and Environment and Friends of the Earth Europe.…

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AVIATION SECURITY FEATURE



BY KEITH NUTHALL AND PHILIP FINE

IN the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, the shocking images of two planes slamming into two of the most famous buildings in the world fuelled a strong desire tighten up security systems around the world, especially in civil aviation.…

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CITES REFORM



KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS made by Nicaragua and Germany for the trade in two hardwoods to be controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have been supported by the CITES secretariat. The species are big-leaf mahogany (Brazilian mahogany) and tree-of-life (pockwood or sonora guaiacum).…

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ILLICIT TRADING CONFERENCE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOBACCO companies should be made subject to tougher auditing controls, to enable customs and other regulators to better detect any diversion of products onto the black market, an International Conference on Illicit Tobacco Trade has concluded.

Staged in New York by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with the assistance of the United Nations and World Health Organisation, a conference working party decided that “all persons engaged” in the tobacco sector could “be licensed at a national or sub-national level.”…

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ILLICIT TOBACCO TRADING



BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and international organisations have highlighted tobacco smuggling as one of the largest illegal drains on their tax revenues. An international conference has brought law enforcement professionals together with health officials to fight this problem. Keith Nuthall reports.…

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SEABED EXTINCTIONS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIALIST United Nations agency has admitted that unless careful precautions are taken, the future exploitation of mineral deposits on the bed of deep oceans could lead to the extinction of species, many of which have yet to be discovered.…

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