Search Results for: International law

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INFORMATION technology and telecommunications companies should build security from hackers, virus spreaders and cyber-terrorists into the design of their networks from the outset, rather than tacking it on later as a result of painful experience, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has advised.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is channeling Euro 2 million into a legal aid and reform programme in Kosovo, to build an effective judicial system in this war-torn and UN administered Balkan province. Money will be directed to the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates, which received aid last year to establish a legal aid system for the poor.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s transport committee has called for amendments to proposed European Union regulations on air safety. MEP’s want to enshrine in law the European Civil Aviation Conference’s Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft procedure, making the monitoring of non-EU aircraft, notably those from developing countries, systematic and transparent within every EU Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN leather manufacturer appears to have lost an international legal struggle to prevent a former German company from using a trade name similar to its own to market furniture upholstered with leather bought from alternative suppliers. In a test case at the European Court of Justice, Italian Leather, of Bironto, Italy, has failed to establish that a ruling that it secured at Bari District Court should overrule a decision made earlier at the Regional Court, Koblenz, Germany.…

BY PHILIP FINE

ONE of the United States’ largest chicken processors has settled a class-action lawsuit and will now compensate its workers for time spent, unpaid, preparing and cleaning up for their work-shifts. In a case likely to be watched by British trades unions and law firms, Perdue Farms Inc.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government has been asked to designate the Himalayan state of Sikkim’s Bagdogra Airport as an international terminal, taking foreign flights, in a bid to boost the region’s tourist industry. The formal proposal has come from the Sikkim Hotel and Restaurant Association.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed liberalising its textile trade regime, to make it easier for textile companies to import samples or small consignments “of negligible value” into the European Union. At present, EU legislation forces many importers to abide by quota limits, submit export and import licences, while following surveillance documentation regulations and rules of origin, when hawking samples around Europe, even though such items enter the EU duty-free.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIME was that the metal industry was barely regulated, even in picture-postcard countryside you could set up a foundry at will, but now regulators have their fingers on everything, they are even thinking about rules for grabbing manganese nodules from the beds of deep oceans, a job that no company is anywhere near being able to undertake.…

BY MARK ROWE
MONEY launderers looking to process their criminal gains look favourably upon south-east Asia. Authorities in the region are under-funded and overworked, while cash-transactions are a cultural norm, making it easy to ensure that money you would prefer not to be traced can simply disappear, with little likelihood that anyone will have the time to investigate the transaction.…

Keith Nuthall
TIME was that the dredging and marine mineral extraction industry was lightly regulated, even in oceans teeming with life companies could plunder the seabed for materials and aggregates without serious hindrance. But now regulators have their fingers on everything, they are even thinking about rules for grabbing manganese nodules from the beds of deep oceans, a job that no company is anywhere near being able to undertake.…