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KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is about to complete its own recommendations on safety improvements in long road tunnels. Its proposals include roadside checks on lorries to detect overheating and also rules on the amount of fuel carried through tunnels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the world’s environment ministers meet in Marrakesh, Morocco, to agree detailed rules on the operation of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Commission has formally proposed that the EU should ratify the convention and has also tabled legislation that will bring it to life in Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RULES and procedures for registering museum names on the Internet under the “dot museum” domain have become clearer following an agreement between ICANN, the internet supervisory body, and MuseDoma, (the Museum Domain Management Association).

MuseDoma has been founded and is financed by the Paris-based International Council of Museums and the J.Paul…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a trade deal with Pakistan that will reward its support for the west in the war in Afghanistan by scrapping EU import tariffs on Pakistani clothing exports and increasing import quotas by 15 per cent.…

BY BEATA PLONKA, in Cracow, Poland
THE POLISH Ministry of Defence has banned irregular civilian flights from the airspace above the capital Warsaw. Only controlled regular traffic has been allowed in from October 15, along with aircraft owned by the military and emergency services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The USA’s ConAgra Foods Inc. will launch squeezable Parkay margarine in November, in ‘Electric Blue’ and ‘Shocking Pink’ colours, in child friendly, 10-ounce bottles that are easy to grip. This is the latest product aimed at pleasing children via their visual fun factor competing with the likes of H.J.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is planning to strengthen current aviation security standards in place, in response to terrorist attacks, which occurred in the United States. A high level meeting will take place before the New Year to discuss setting global rules on security issues such as cockpit door locking and making domestic regulations as tight as international flights.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
AMERICA’S NATIONAL Cybercrime Training Partnership (NCTP), which has taught more than 4,200 law enforcement officers the basics of computer forensics, is offering its services to private anti-fraud investigators and is reporting positive results through arrests and prosecutions. The organisation was developed by the U.S.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency’s general conference has agreed that a “thorough review of its programmes… to enhance security of nuclear material and facilities,” following the terrorist attacks on the USA.

IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei said: “We can not be complacent.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally issued an awaited regulation that will require the labels of fish and fish products to contain more detailed information to better inform consumers and help officials police the Common Fisheries Policy.

Under the new rules, from 1 January 2002, all fish products on sale at retailers will have to be labelled with the following information:

*The commercial name of the species, with the common term used in each Member State being used for local sales;

*The production method of the fish, being wild, farmed or cultivated in fresh water or at sea;

*The area where the fish was caught.…