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UN ATLAS
BY MONICA DOBIE
SHIPPING safety stands to be improved due to the recent launch of the United Nations Atlas of the Oceans. The atlas is an Internet based encyclopaedic resource that will enable seafarers to access information in real time, to find out about weather, dangerous routes, sea collisions, the state of ocean resources, maps, emergencies and threats to human health from deteriorating marine environment.…
THAI CANNERIES
BY MARK ROWE
THAI canneries are looking to invest in re-exporting north American wild salmon as a means of boosting revenue. Companies are planning to promote exports of wild salmon, which have been processed in Thailand in favour of farmed salmon, usually supplied from Norway, Chile and Scotland.…
ANIMAL WELFARE
BY MARK ROWE
THERE is clearly something wrong with a law that allows a rare snake from Costa Rica to be sold in a church hall or for a reptile to be kept in a garage on a housing estate. But Britain’s animal welfare laws are, by the common agreement of just about every interested party, out-dated, confusing and, crucially, can actually cause more harm than good to animals.…
PALL MALL
BY MARK ROWE
ANOTHER leader in the ASU30 and lights segments, the American blended Pall Mall remains BAT’s leading global mid-price brand, sold in 60 countries. Launched in 1900, it today sells particularly well in eastern and central Europe as well as Italy and last year saw volumes up by 21 per cent.…
BAT SOCIAL REPORT
BTY MARK ROWE
THIS summer saw a watershed for BAT that may prove to be one of the most significant in the company’s 100-year history. It produced a Social Report, all 156 pages of it, outlining the company’s views on the sensitive issues that surround the business of producing tobacco.…
MERCURY LAWS
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US state of Maine recently passed a landmark bill that for the first
time forces automotive manufacturers to pay for the removal of mercury from
vehicles. Auto makers will now be responsible for removing and disposing of
mercury-added components, such as switches in boot and bonnet lights, before vehicles are crushed or shredded for recycling
Despite 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each
year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws
concerning car recycling.…
US CAR RECYCLING SIDE BAR
BY PHILIP FINE
DESPITE 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws concerning car recycling. There have, however, been new binding rules emerging at state level.…
TOON ARMY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LEGALITY within the European Union of strict alcohol advertising laws such as France’s Loi Evin is in doubt because of an unlikely case at the European Court of Justice involving Newcastle United Football Club. The team is fighting legal action brought by Bacardi-Martini and Cellier des Dauphins, who claim they lost money when Newcastle programmed its revolving touchline hoardings to display their advertisements for swift 1-2 second intervals.…
WTO ROUND CONFERENCE
BY MARK ROWE
IT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world’s poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers.…
EU CRIME FIGHTING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LETS face it. The reputation of the European Union for taking firm action against crime is not solid. Rather it is known for issuing waffley communiqués that say what needs to be done, without saying when or how.…