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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has further underlined developing European Union (EU) case law that says periods spent resting, but on-call within hospitals and clinics, should be considered working time under relevant EU legislation. However, judges have weakened claims by nurses and others that EU law guarantees them payment for such activities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) general council has permanently amended the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to make permanent a 2003 waiver helping poor countries obtain generic medicines during health emergencies. The TRIPS amendment enables any WTO member country to export generic pharmaceuticals made under a compulsory licence to assist countries lacking their own manufacturing capacity and whose nurses and doctors would otherwise be unable to deal with a serious disease problem.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a detailed analysis on how the world’s textile industry may change this year, following January’s end to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. A New World Map in Textiles and Clothing Adjusting to Change – see http://www.oecd.org/document/63/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34035455_1_1_1_1,00.html…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPREHENSIVE tests are needed following the conformation that a goat in France did indeed die of BSE, the European Food Safety Authority’s BIOHAZ panel has said. Data on the goat had been transferred to the EU Community Reference Laboratory for TSEs, in Weybridge, Surrey, after French authorities had reported their concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF has released more information showing it is improving its efficiency, with its latest annual report saying the time spent investigating cases had fallen over the last five years from an average of 33 to about 22 months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED reforms to the European Union’s (EU) sugar common market organisation may not be released until May 2005. The European Commission told the EU Council of Ministers “implementation of the reform (would now be) later than initially envisaged”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED reforms to the EU sugar common market organisation may not now be released until May 2005, significantly delaying agreement. The European Commission did however say sugar producers had agreed the status quo must change.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A STUDY ordered for the European Commission – ‘The Financing of ATM To Achieve The Single European Sky’ – has caused something of a stir in aviation circles where a number of air traffic control professionals believe it to be founded on wrong assumptions and to give too rosy a picture of the situation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN tobacco industry is poised on the brink of major change, with the country’s manufacturers considering comprehensive leaf import programmes that could undermine the sustainability of the country’s domestic growing sector.

This change is being lead by the country’s largest cigarette manufacturer, Imperial Tobacco Canada, which outlined a proposal in the spring of 2004 that would alter the current two-tiered pricing system for domestic and exported tobacco leaf in the 2005/2006 season.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the European Union (EU) considering reforms to its working time directive, involving the European Commission seeking to undermine the UK’s opt-out system from the legislation’s maximum 48-hour working week, occupational health practitioners will keep a close eye on Brussels in 2005.…