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BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
THE THIRD annual Information Security Solutions Europe conference has opened at the QE2 centre in London against a background of heightened tensions in the Internet community arising from the terror attacks on the US and a recent world-wide decline in investment in B2B activities.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the German government to recover state aid of Euro 5.9 million, (DM 11.6 million), that was paid to a flax and textile spinning mill in Saxony, after an inquiry concluded that it had wrongfully claimed small business grants, while being covertly controlled by a larger group.…

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
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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has until February 28 next year to implement a World Trade Organisation ruling that it should dismantle tanning industry controls on the export of raw and semi-tanned bovine hides, an WTO arbitrator has ruled.

The European Union – which brought the case in the first place – had called for arbitration after failing to reach agreement with Buenos Aires over the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
KNITTED clothing and textile manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by the Spanish government of subsidies of Euro 152 million to General Electric Plastics SL to set up a new polycarbonate factory in Cartagena. The new plant will cost Euro 630 million in total.…

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.…

Keith Nuthall
MEP’s are resisting a decision by the European Union Council of Ministers to reject amendments that would have strengthened a planned noise directive, making it set specific and binding EU noise limits for airports. The parliament’s environment committee has voted to ask the full parliament to reinstate the amendments, which MEP’s can insist upon, because they have a right of veto over the proposals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEP’s are sticking to their guns in a political battle with European Union ministers over whether there should be EU legislation laying down noise limits or particular forms of transport operations across the continent. The parliament’s environment committee is resisting a decision by the European Union Council of Ministers to reject amendments that would have strengthened a planned noise directive, making it include commitments to set specific and binding EU noise limits for road vehicles, trains, rail tracks and aircraft.…