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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has passed technical regulations approving most International Accounting Standards for use by all listed companies in the EU from 2005, as required by an existing 2002 regulation. Only IAS 32 and 39, (on the accounting and disclosure of financial instruments), have yet to be approved, as they are being revised by the International Accounting Standards Board.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU ministers have been asked to widen rules leading to eggs being stamped with their producers’ identity code and farming methods from January 2004. The European Commission wants them expanded to producers selling their eggs in public markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has started to get tough with the United States over the ongoing controversy regarding the use by Washington of air passenger data handed over by European Union airlines. Internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein said in a speech to the European Parliament justice and home affairs committee in Brussels: “We cannot let this process go on indefinitely.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWIFT agreement has been reached in Brussels over a directive – proposed this Spring – which will impose safety standards on auto-manufacturers to ensure their vehicles cause less injuries and fewer deaths in accidents with pedestrians. The Council of Ministers and the European Parliament have struck a deal over the shape of the legislation, which will compel manufacturers to bring in new designs – for instance to bonnets and bumpers – aimed at significantly reducing collision impacts for cars and light vans travelling at speeds up to 40 kph (about 25 mph).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RULES saying cotton seeds contaminated with more than 0.5 per cent genetically modified material should be labelled as such have been proposed by the European Commission. They are being examined by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on seeds, which has the authority to approve or reject the proposal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA, Canada and Argentina have requested a WTO disputes panel be established to rule on the EU’s de facto five-year freeze on approving the import of new genetically modified foodstuffs. The three countries claim it is illegal under world trade law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL rules preventing ships from dumping untreated sewage into coastal waters have been ratified into force nearly 30 years after being negotiated. These amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships say international ferries can only discharge untreated sewage more than 12 nautical miles from the nearest land.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL agreement has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over an updating of EU food labelling legislation ensuring all potentially allergenic ingredients are named. It has accepted final amendments passed by the European Parliament, so the new directive will now become law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is pressing for an end to national vetoes over changes to parts of the European Union’s founding treaties as Member States prepare to launch, in Rome on October 4, the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) convened to approve the EU’s first formal constitution.…