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BY KEITH NUTHALL
OPPORTUNITIES for lawyers to handle varied and potentially lucrative liability claims against international organisations could arise from debates now being held at the United Nations (UN). Its legal committee is discussing whether they should be responsible for failing to achieve their formal objectives.…

Keith Nuthall
TAX collectors are raiding the developed world’s economies for a diminishing slice of national incomes according to a Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study. It says rich country public revenues commanded a smaller proportion of GDP on average last year, compared with 2001 (40.5 and 41 per cent respectively).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) will review its BSE trade guidelines following requests from the USA, Canada and Mexico, but claims governments fail to implement existing advice. The north American trio requested action following complete trade bans on Canadian beef because of one BSE infected cow.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN Grand Prix in Montreal has been provisionally reinstated into next year’s Formula 1 season, pending the raising of financial compensation for teams losing revenue because of Canada’s tobacco advertising ban. The race had been axed from the Formula One 2004 calendar because of the law, which prohibits tobacco firms from sponsoring sports events.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd up to Euro 50 million to help develop a new open pit copper mine in north-western Zambia and an associated dedicated power supply.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and PHILIP FINE

AN ATTEMPT is being made to rally all 50 US state governors to lobby the American government to lift a ban on importing lower priced Canadian drugs. Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is trying to build support for the idea and recently went to Washington to push the idea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission may have to wait for the US and Canada to lift retaliatory duties imposed over the European Union’s hormone-treated meat ban after EU ministers agreed legislation on the subject. An unnamed US official dismissed EU claims the law fulfilled WTO demands for its ban to be based on risk assessments, claiming that the law’s scientific foundation did not confirm any health threats.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations (UN) Convention against Transnational Organised Crime has come into force, imposing a duty on ratifying countries to outlaw membership of an organised criminal group, which it defines legally. So far, said the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 48 countries have ratified it, including Monaco, Nigeria, Serbia & Montenegro, Peru, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Philippines, Tajikistan, Albania, France, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, China, Norway and Afghanistan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against European Union (EU) exporters following the imposition of a hormone treated beef directive that the European Commission claims satisfies a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission may have to wait for the US and Canada to lift retaliatory duties imposed over the European Union’s hormone-treated meat ban after EU ministers agreed legislation on the subject. An unnamed US official told the Financial Times that EU “scientific evidence” complying with WTO demands for risk assessments on hormones did not confirm any health threats.…