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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIA was to inaugurate its first specialised commercial court on October 1, part of a process to match the country’s legal system with norms in the European Union (EU). The business court will be staffed with eight judges, seven clerks and four support staff (including an IT specialist).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROMANIAN government will inaugurate the country’s first specialised commercial court on October 1, part of a process to match the country’s legal system with norms in the European Union (EU). Romania hopes to become a member state in 2007 and as a result, earlier this year passed a law reorganising its judiciary.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations agency coordinating the world’s airlines has claimed the industry is finally shaking off its post-September 11 gloom and will post robust growth figures this year and onto 2006. Predictions released by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) say that global airline passenger traffic should grow by 6.2% this year and continue to expand by 5.4% in 2005 and 5.2% in 2006.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH engineers have developed an invention making hybrid cars even more fuel efficient, possibly breaking the “magic target” of 100 miles per gallon, reducing their emissions and making them more attractive to consumers. Hybrid vehicles running on a combination of traditional fuel and electrical power have already produced significant pollution results.…

BY MARK ROWE
AT first sight they would appear to be uneasy bedfellows. On the one hand, English Heritage, the British government’s advisory body with responsibility for the care and maintenance of the country’s historic environment; on the other, the Marxist-led government of the Indian state of West Bengal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voiced concerns that the global tightening in nuclear material transport security is hampering the treatment of hospital patients with potentially lifesaving isotopes. These are used in nuclear medicine for diagnosis and therapy, treating cancer, diagnosing heart attacks or sterilising medical equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from market analysts IDC has revealed 37% of business programmes used in the EU are pirated. The study, involving 5,600 interviews, identified Greece as having the worst problem, with 63% of business software being pirated, followed by Poland and Lithuania (58%), Latvia (57%) and Estonia 54%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an inquiry to identify obstacles that could impede the development of electronic public procurement, following this year’s adoption of a directive legalising the practice across Europe. Brussels is concerned that IT, linguistic, regulatory and other barriers could prevent local authorities and their suppliers from making full use of Internet-based procurement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Plant Genetic Resources Institute and United Nations Environment Programme have launched an In-Situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives Through Enhanced Management and Field Application scheme preserving biodiversity in species rich Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT could be the most underestimated commercial crime in the world, the illegal trade in wildlife and their products. Some estimates put its value at US$5 billion-a-year, but governments do not really seem to care. Keith Nuthall reports.…