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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the May 31 deadline looms for World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries to make formal offers to liberalise their service industries, the Comité Européen des Assurances (CEA) has called on Brazil, India and China to be as generous as they can.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has been asked to support simplifying global rules on carrying animals, food and other perishable goods across national frontiers. The European Commission wants drafted changes to the International Convention on the Harmonisation of Frontier Controls of Goods to become EU law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) clothing retailers can expect to see restrictions being imposed on Chinese imports, although measures announced by the European Commission have been attacked as “too little too late” by the EU manufacturing industry. As expected, the abolition of textile trade quotas in January under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules have sparked a surge in Chinese clothing exports.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has thrown in the towel over persuading the USA to sign the Kyoto Protocol. However, the Greek has committed himself to involving Washington in negotiations to create an anti-global warming agreement that takes the world beyond the Kyoto deadline of 2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has hailed a global agreement of statistical benchmarks guiding governments pursuing sustainable energy policies. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN department of economic and social affairs, the International Energy Agency and EU statistical agency Eurostat have developed 30 indicators, on measuring greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption, for instance.…

BY LIZ HALL
A PROFUSION of family-run businesses, corrupt and under-resourced authorities and low wages has traditionally meant much commercial crime goes undetected in Latin America. But the tide is turning, with more and more companies unwilling to turn a blind eye to fraud, bribery and counterfeit goods production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHOLESALE changes to a global fish and seafood health code are being debated at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, with the reforms probably being agreed next January (2006).

The OIE Aquatic Animal Health Standards Commission is examining a raft of proposals for amending its Aquatic Animals Health Code, for instance updating the list of diseases, which can be cited as a reason for imposing import controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has hailed a global agreement with other international organisations on the creation of statistical benchmarks guiding governments wanting to pursue sustainable energy policies. These “indicators”, said the EEA “will help policy makers to take the right decisions in the energy sector in order to improve the environment”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) has called on the European Union’s (EU) governments and car industries to adopt long-term innovative strategies that guarantee a sustainable future for the EU automobile industry, a key purchaser of steel and other metals.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW industries are as touchy about their image as the American gambling business but given the way the industry is portrayed by Hollywood this is understandable. Whether or not people are right to hold the industry in such suspicion these days is debatable.…