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DIGITAL PIRACY



BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRACTICAL guidelines on steps that governments should take to fight digital piracy have been released by the Council of Europe, an organisation whose members include Russia and other eastern European countries, and where such crimes are known to have taken place in the past.…

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TERRORISM UPDATE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
LONG-TERM European Union proposals for streamlined cross-border arrest warrants, that would enable prosecutors to demand the swift handover of fraud and other criminal suspects, are to be fast-tracked as a result of the terrorist disasters in the USA.…

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REPRODUCTION BANKNOTES



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has ordered that non-currency reproductions of Euro banknotes should in future be one-sided only, countermanding earlier rules that allowed double-sides copies to be made. The permitted size of specimen copes will remain at 125 per cent or larger or 75 per cent or smaller of the relevant notes and any material can be used for their reproduction.…

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FRUIT JUICES



Keith Nuthall
MEP’s have voted for legal limits to be applied to the content of certain on additives or pollutants in drinking water used for the dilution of commercial fruit juices. In amendments to a proposed fruit juice directive, the European Parliament voted for tight controls on the presence of sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, chloride and electrical conductivity in juice water.…

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CHINA WTO THINK PIECE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN the years of the Cultural Revolution, when the bamboo curtain separated the world’s most populous country from the rest of the globe, the idea of sending bulk agricultural exports to China would have seemed laughable. Even today, Chinese export markets buy up a fraction of British farming produce, but in the future, this could change.…

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FRANCE ECJ THINK PIECE



BY ALAN OSBORN
FRANCE has been stingingly rebuffed by a judge of the European Court of Justice over her refusal to let British beef back in after the export ban was lifted by the European Commission in 1999. An Advocate General of the Court – or adviser – says France was in the wrong.…

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KAZAKHSTAN



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has developed plans to lend US$25 million to develop Atyrau Airport, in western Kazakhstan, near the Caspian Sea. It wants to lend the money to the Atyrau Airport Company, which is wholly owned by KazTransOil, the state oil transport company.…

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HILTEX



Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the German government to recover state aid of Euro 5.9 million, (DM 11.6 million), that was paid to a flax and textile spinning mill in Saxony, after an inquiry concluded that it had wrongfully claimed small business grants, while being covertly controlled by a larger group.…

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INFO SECURITY CONFERENCE



BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
THE THIRD annual Information Security Solutions Europe conference has opened at the QE2 centre in London against a background of heightened tensions in the Internet community arising from the terror attacks on the US and a recent world-wide decline in investment in B2B activities.…

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EU TRANSPORT MINISTERS



KEITH NUTHALL
URGENT action to boost airport security in the wake of the destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre has been ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers (transport).

In an emergency session, EU Member States agreed to implement recommedations from the European Civil Aviation Conference,” including recommendations on machine readable travel documents, using accident investigation experts, information and communications and the treatment of inadmissable persons and deportees.…

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