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AUSTRALIA - US TRADE DEAL



BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA’S National Milk Producers Federation has come out against a

recently-announced free trade agreement between Australia and the United

States. Next February, the two governments will be entering trade negotiations, with the goal of completing a bilateral free trade pact by 2004.…

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SHIP SECURITY CODE



BY KEITH NUTHALL, PHILIP FINE and ALAN OSBORN

THE NEW International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed by an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference, held in London, aims at reducing the industry’s exposure to terrorist attacks and resulting damage.…

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PHILIP MORRIS CASE



BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN tobacco unit of cigarette giant Philip Morris has launched civil legal cases against a number of small shop retailers in the USA who it alleges have been selling counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes. The company has instigated 15 lawsuits against 88 retailers after undercover agents for Philip Morris USA purchased cigarettes and then had them tested.…

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ECJ SAFETY CASE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has declared that the European Union Council of Ministers made mistakes when it ratified the global Convention on Nuclear Safety. Legislation adopting the treaty should have declared all the roles of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) in these areas to an international depository, said the court, which ruled that the Council had wrongfully withheld some information about Euratom’s safety work.…

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GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its allies at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) negotiations over the creation of a global register for protected geographical indications in the wine and spirit trade have made a significant concession, which may be the basis for a future deal.…

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SHIP SECURITY CODE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEW International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed by an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference, held in London, last month (Dec) aims at reducing the industry’s exposure to terrorist attacks and resulting damage.…

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MONEY LAUNDERING & FATF etc



BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO many cooks spoil the broth. Or do they? As far as the world’s fight against money laundering is concerned, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund think that they can bring extra flavour to the struggle waged by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

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CHEMICAL LABEL CONVENTION



BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXPERT United Nations committee has adopted a new global labelling and classification system for chemicals, designed to prevent the mismanagement of hazardous and dangerous substances. The system agreed by the UN Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals uses universally understandable pictogram-based labels.…

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GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its allies at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) negotiations over the creation of a global register for protected geographical indications in the wine and spirit trade have made a significant concession, which may be the basis for a future deal.…

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SHIP SECURITY CODE



BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed by an International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference, held in London, aims at reducing the industry’s exposure to terrorist attacks and resulting damage.…

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