Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union has lost its appeal at the World Trade Organisation against last year’s disputes panel ruling, which censured its imposition of anti-dumping duties on cotton-type bed linen from India. The Appellate Body of the WTO disputes procedure has agreed that the EU did erect duties via procedures that broke international anti-dumping regulations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is moving towards compulsory introduction of a procedure under which a driver may be traced from a scrap of paint left behind by a car at the scene of a crime or a hit-and-run accident.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health and safety laws should be extended by a new EU directive to cover the 90 per cent of fishing boats that are currently exempt from them, a report from Spanish socialist MEP Miguélez Ramos has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DIPLOMATS at the World Trade Organisation have embarked upon the second stage of the agriculture round, which was launched last year. Having debated 44 broad negotiating proposals from 125 WTO member countries, national delegates will now examine these in detail, in a bid to prepare the ground for hard bargaining on market access, tariffs and quotas, in the year 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European farming industry facing more fundamental change than it has in decades, it could be said that funding research into ways of making this transformation less painless has to be a good thing. Whatever the view on this fairly facile assumption, the eyes of the agricultural sector should at least be partly turned on Brussels thus year, where debates for the preparation of a new five-year EU research programme are being staged.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND MONICA DOBIE
THE NEW Zealand government has imposed a series of trade restrictions, because of Foot and Mouth, clamping down on imports of venison, cattle semen and dairy from the UK and beef from Argentina, among many other products.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?

Let me make it easy for you.

Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PERFORMANCE of OLAF, the European Union’s new and supposedly independent anti-fraud office, has been criticised by the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee; it has suggested that it has not worked more effectively than its predecessor UCLAF, the European Commission’s in-house fraud busting unit.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?

Let me make it easy for you.

Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…

BY MIKE FOX, in Montreal
WINNEPEG, in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba, may sound like the sort of city which would only merit a small regional airport, but the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) has big plans to exploit its unique position.…