Search Results for: International business

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ACQUISITION by Swedish industrial group Trelleborg of the polymer-sealing solutions business of Britain-based Smiths has been approved by the European Commission after conducting a competition inquiry. Brussels had been concerned that the two companies had similar interests in the pipe seals market, but has concluded that “the market shares of the merged entity are not very high and several strong competitors remain on the market.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S decision to use non-binding guidelines for advising employers and employees on their respective rights regarding the workplace monitoring and privacy of e mails and Internet use has been criticised by a report by a specialist European Union employment affairs body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ACQUISITION by Swedish industrial group Trelleborg of the polymer-sealing solutions business of Britain-based Smiths has been approved by the European Commission, which has conducted a competition inquiry. Brussels had been concerned that the two companies had similar interests in the pipe seals market, but has concluded that “the market shares of the merged entity are not very high and several strong competitors remain on the market.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau is calling for investigations to determine whether heavily armed pirates using fishing and speed-boats who have launched a spate of attacks on small oil tankers in the Malacca Straits are actually independence rebels from the Indonesian province of Aceh.…

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
A DETAILED and global draft code of practice on reducing violence and stress suffered by service industry employees has been released by the International Labour Organisation, which says the problems are a “threat to productivity and decent work”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ELECTRONIC business solutions and services are important to 47 per cent of larger European Union beverage companies (grouped with a sample of food and tobacco businesses), according to a European Commission report saying e-commerce is still growing in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force, has released best practice guidelines to help auditors, police and governments ensure seemingly innocent charities are not being used as fund-raising fronts by bloodthirsty international terrorists.

Indeed, in certain cases, its advice warns, charities have been “a mere sham that existed simply to funnel money to terrorists.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has welcomed what it says is the imminent ratification of the United Nations Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks by the European Union, which should help Ottawa conserve its hard-pressed fishing reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STATES Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the institution’s decision-making body – has debated recognising an International Criminal Bar as an official advisory body for maintaining a list of available defence counsel. This global bar was established at a Montreal conference in June 2002 and has since been adopting its own constitution and organisation.…