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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is pushing for an acceleration of the phasing out of single hull tankers worldwide in the wake of the Prestige accident, where thousands of tonnes of crude oil spilled onto the pristine cost of Galicia, Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority is threatening Iceland with legal action over its alleged failure to implement European Economic Area rules on the sale and production of farmed fish. It has given Reykjavik two months in which to explain how it will write directive 91/67/EEC, as amended in 1993, 1995 and 1998, into its national statutes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of papers about boosting safety in aerodromes have been released by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). They were first published at a joint ICAO-Airports Council International workshop on the certification of aerodromes, held at Dubai, United Arab Emirates.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Bar Association is pushing US state governments to pass laws protecting the position of lawyers to handle legal work in their jurisdictions, forcing competing professions to drop paralegal services. On Friday (March 28), an ABA task force released a proposed definition on the practice of law that should only be carried out by certified lawyers, which it would like codified and incorporated into states’ regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS AMERICAN and British military forces secure control of Iraq from the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein using the latest military technology, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a cautionary report confirming for the first time that depleted uranium shells can and have contaminated drinking water.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVEMENTS are to be made to Kabul international airport, Afghanistan, with a US$19.3 million World Bank credit. The funds will finance reconstruction of its runway and upgrade water and sanitation services. The money – part of an Emergency Transport Rehabilitation Project – will also improve air traffic control services, providing the airport with equipment to support safe air travel, such as communications and air traffic control networks identified as necessary by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SPAIN is facing legal action at the hands of the European Commission over its failure to respond to a request for information on how it has applied the EU’s environmental Impact Assessment Directive with regard to a waste-water treatment plant serving tanneries at Lorca in Murcia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the unusual step of taking the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to court to try and force it to toughen moves to criminalise environmental offences across the EU.

Ministers in January adopted an EU Decision – without referring to other European institutions – that calls on Member States to criminalise wilful and negligent pollution, but leaves flexibility on what kind of offence is made a crime and on how it should be punished.…

BY SIGRÚN DAVÍDSDOTTIR
THE FOUR Scandinavian language-speaking countries, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, all pass with flying colours on Transparency International’s Corruption Index when considering their exposure to money laundering. Though the use criminal proceeds is not a serious issue in this friendly part of the world, their vicinity to countries in the former communist eastern bloc and the increasingly pervasive nature of international terrorism means that no one can afford to be caught sleeping on the post, especially not after 9/11.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A CONSORTIUM has been selected to build the IND Rupees 12 billion greenfield Hyderabad international airport, Indian press reports claim. They quote officials saying GMR Vasavi Infrastructure and Malaysia Airport Holding Berhard have clinched the deal, under a public private partnership model.…