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Alan Osborne
THE INTRODUCTION of e-commerce into the European Union, already disappointingly slow, is further threatened by the failure so far of the 15 member countries to adopt the European Electronic Signature Directive, delegates to the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference at the QE2 centre in London have been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*Final approval has been given for a the spending by the European Commission until 2006 of Euro 15.4 million on rural development projects in Northern Ireland under the EU LEADER plus initiative. The scheme covers all province rural areas and will especially focus on farm families, women, young people and the long-term unemployed, funding training programmes, advice and assistance for rural enterprises, processing of local products and e-commerce initiatives.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR European Union research study has concluded that the ‘true’ price of using renewable energy is actually much more competitive than usually assumed, when the costs of cleaning up the resulting pollution of fossil fuel power generation and dealing with the resulting health problems are taken into account.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering new legislation that would make it compulsory for transport contracts to include clauses allowing hauliers to adjust their fees, if they are hit by sudden rises in the price of fuel. EU transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio said that she was considering the idea as a priority response to the Commission’s recent transport White Paper.…

KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government of the European Union have met at an emergency summit in the wake of the terrorist disasters in the USA and have agreed to fast track proposals to boost airline security for agreement by the Council of Ministers for transport in October.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has developed plans to lend US$25 million to develop Atyrau Airport, in western Kazakhstan, near the Caspian Sea. It wants to lend the money to the Atyrau Airport Company, which is wholly owned by KazTransOil, the state oil transport company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LONG-TERM European Union proposals for streamlined cross-border arrest warrants and taking the first steps towards harmonisation of national criminal laws, are to be fast-tracked as a result of the terrorist disasters in the USA.

Heads of government have met in an emergency session of the European Council, telling the EU Council of Ministers for justice and home affairs to agree these reforms “as a matter of urgency,” imposing a December 7 deadline for action.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has ordered that non-currency reproductions of Euro banknotes should in future be one-sided only, countermanding earlier rules that allowed double-sides copies to be made. The permitted size of specimen copes will remain at 125 per cent or larger or 75 per cent or smaller of the relevant notes and any material can be used for their reproduction.…

Keith Nuthall
TIGHTER security measures are to be introduced in airports across the European Union in the wake of the terrorist destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre. The reforms were ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers for transport, sitting in emergency session, and will inevitably lead to some inconvenience and additional delays for business travellers.…