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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE WORLD is a very long way from establishing a global system for air traffic management, but at least some of the building blocks are now being put into place. We know that neither global regulation nor global management of air traffic is a realistic concept unless preceded by a number of fundamental changes in the way the two are handled institutionally in many countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT managers across the European Union can expect changes to their national workplace data protection regulations because of a wide-ranging and detailed public consultation launched by the European Commission.

Brussels has already concluded that there is a need to harmonise the widely divergent rules and practices amongst Member States, so legislation will inevitably be tabled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers are expected to permanently ban the use of the additive konjac in jelly mini-cups and similar jelly confectionary, because consumers have choked to their deaths on the sweets. Konjac prevents the jelly dissolving and so was subject to a temporary ban this April.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties on 10 Norwegian farmed salmon exporters who were previously exempt from the tariffs by promising to keep prices above a minimum level, backed by documentary proof.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU health Commissioner David Byrne has been awarded with the Goethe Challenge Trophy for Smoke-Free Environment, notably for his pan-European information anti-smoking campaign for adolescents, “Feel Free to Say No”.…

Keith Nuthall
WEARABLE technology and customised clothing for health-care, sports, quality-of-life and entertainment needs is to be displayed at a European Commission-funded conference in Brussels, on October 15. “The EU apparel business goes high-tech” will educate businesses how to use information society technologies to boost productivity and competitiveness, and added-value, such as 3-D body scanning, “virtual” trying on of clothes, mass customisation, multi-functional clothing and on-line retailing.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK government is being taken to the European Court of Justice over its insistence that lorry drivers should pay registration taxes in Greece to use their vehicle temporarily in that country, even if it is registered in another EU Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission could saddle imported American nuclear engineering equipment with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a WTO ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s proposed legislation setting up a Single European Sky in the form of a European-wide air traffic control system now seems certain to be finally approved by the end of 2002 or early next year following an overwhelming vote in favour by the European Parliament on September 3.…

Keith Nuthall
INSURANCE companies will be able to reduce their exposure to natural and technological disasters within the European Union and eastern Europe in the future, assuming EU ministers agree plans to establish a central contingency emergency aid fund commanding between Euro 500,000 and Euro 1 billion; it would be raided by Member States and eastern European countries wanting to join the EU that fall victim to such disasters.…