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BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS and international organisations have highlighted tobacco smuggling as one of the largest illegal drains on their tax revenues. An international conference has brought law enforcement professionals together with health officials to fight this problem. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN leather manufacturer appears to have lost an international legal struggle to prevent a former German company from using a trade name similar to its own to market furniture upholstered with leather bought from alternative suppliers. In a test case at the European Court of Justice, Italian Leather, of Bironto, Italy, has failed to establish that a ruling that it secured at Bari District Court should overrule a decision made earlier at the Regional Court, Koblenz, Germany.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made it clear that it will not countenance the creation of certain special tax regimes within the European Union for so-called coordination centres, that provide services including banking, marketing, insurance and logistics to companies within an international group.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed liberalising its textile trade regime, to make it easier for textile companies to import samples or small consignments “of negligible value” into the European Union. At present, EU legislation forces many importers to abide by quota limits, submit export and import licences, while following surveillance documentation regulations and rules of origin, when hawking samples around Europe, even though such items enter the EU duty-free.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND PHILIP FINE

IN the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, the shocking images of two planes slamming into two of the most famous buildings in the world fuelled a strong desire tighten up security systems around the world, especially in civil aviation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
TH EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed that the EU’s surveillance of imports of hard coal from third countries should be continued after the winding up of the European Coal and Steel Community in June this year. The Commission said however that the decision would require the approval of the EU member governments in the Council before it could be implemented.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN unkind moments, critics of the insurance industry might say that the sector revels in misfortune, making money out of pessimism and encouraging its clients to prepare for the worst. Of course, like most unconditional statements about business, the truth is far off and is a lot more murky.…

Keith Nuthall
FINLAND’S tough levy on non-reusable beverage packaging is under attack from the European Commission, which is claiming that the charge could be a disguised and illegal trade restriction. Brussels is threatening to take the Finnish government to the European Court of Justice over the matter, which could order it to reform the system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL laws within the European Union insisting that life-assurance policies or proposals warn customers about the potential for losing returns, should they cancel or reduce their policy to take out new cover, break EU freedom of trade rules, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is being brought before the European Court of Justice for its failure to adopt EU legislation insisting on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications of harbour pilots. The European Commission said the UK had failed to put into national law the directive 1999/42/EC and said this was “likely to prove an obstacle to the free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services in the sectors concerned.”…