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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a research project aiming to document the effects of long-term, low exposure to toxic metals, such as mercury and lead, with the aim of influencing – probably tightening – future pollution controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a research project aiming to document the effects of long-term, low exposure to toxic metals, such as mercury and lead, to influence future pollution controls. Although many metals have been proven toxic in sufficient quantities, much less is known about the damage caused by trace elements in water, the atmosphere and soil.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FURTHER global restrictions on the tobacco industry are to be developed, the first Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has decided. Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, diplomats established working groups to develop legally binding protocols, using the convention as their authority, that further limit cross-border tobacco advertising and smuggling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SWISS sportswear company has launched a case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Court of First Instance to secure European Union (EU)-wide trademark rights to the controversial name ‘Binladin’. Falcon Sporting Goods is appealing against a registration refusal by EU’s Office for Harmonisation for the Internal Market (Trademarks and Designs) – OHIM.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Helsinki

BY its own lights Finland is a model of Nordic virtue and is snooty about crime in neighbouring countries round the Baltic. But Interpol begs to differ, ranking Finnish criminality as high for an industrialised economy.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST meeting of an Intergovernmental Forum for Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development, held in Geneva, Switzerland, has issued practical recommendations, such as capacity building and providing technical support to developing country mining regulators, plus information exchanges with developed country governments and mining companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST meeting of an Intergovernmental Forum for Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development has been held, in Geneva, Switzerland, with delegates already issuing practical recommendations. The aim of this UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)-coordinated body is to promote growth through mining in developing and emerging economies, but in a way that does not built up legacy costs through environmental and health problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN plastics companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST meeting of an Intergovernmental Forum for Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development has been held, in Geneva, Switzerland, with delegates already issuing practical recommendations. The aim of this UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)-coordinated body is to promote growth through mining in developing and emerging economies, but in a way that does not built up legacy costs through environmental and health problems.…