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BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States may have found an effective means to recover stolen vehicles. It has signed treaties that will provide a mechanism by which automobiles that have been driven out of the country by thieves can be retrieved.…

Keith Nuthall
A GLOBAL questionnaire has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on insurance liability during multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIMPLIFICATION of European Union life insurance legislation has been approved by the European Parliament and will now come into force, rolling the many EU rules and regulations affecting the industry into one single code.

Part of an ongoing effort to streamline Brussels’ often baffling and Byzantine strands of legislation, MEP’s agreed with ministers to delay final approval of a united life directive, so that recent changes on solvency margins could be incorporated.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States Congress is to take a close look at an allegedly fraudulent and

secret 1993 purchase of a failed California life-insurance company, a deal that has led to criticism being levelled at the US Department of Justice.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
RETALIATORY duties hitting shoe and fashion accessory imports from the United States may be postponed or never imposed because of concessions made by the US regarding controversial steel safeguard duties that provoked the European Union into planning reprisals.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon reclassify the fine powder that cement companies collect in their manufacturing process as a non-hazardous waste. It says it will temporarily suspend listing cement kiln dust (CKD) as a hazardous waste under federal environmental regulations, and will wait and see if state government regulatory programmes evolve over the next three to five years as a result.…

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.…

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.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE COCA-COLA Company has launched a chocolate-flavored dairy drink Nestlé Choglit; it’s Coke’s first entry into the milk-based beverage segment in the United States and is being rolled out initially in the north-east and south-east of the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…