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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL community is expected to make solid progress towards the creation of a United Nations Convention against Corruption, during the ongoing third meeting of the ad hoc committee established to draft the treaty.

This session, which lasts until October 11 will especially focus on corruption within the private sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission today (Tuesday) announced proposed new legislation to bring in compulsory minimum insurance requirements for all air carriers and aircraft operators flying within, into, out of or overflying the European Union. It is also considering the merits of creating a mutual fund in the probable event that governments decided against maintaining the current state guarantees after the end of October this year.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations together with a local authority have issued a lawsuit against the American government for its alleged contribution to global warming. The suit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32 billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW laboratory tasked with fostering innovative solutions for nuclear waste management has been inaugurated at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Its Institute for Transuranium Elements, in Karlsruhe, Germany, has opened a Euro 10 million Minor Actinide Laboratory, which will manufacture and characterize the most suitable materials for the transmutation of long-lived toxic elements created by the nuclear industry.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations and an American local authority have issued a lawsuit against the US government for its contribution to global warming, a move that may have important repercussions for the insurance industry.

A lawsuit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ACQUISITION of PricewaterhouseCoopers’s consulting business by IBM has received regulatory clearance in Europe, with the European Commission concluding that the merged operation will face sufficient competition in Europe to allow consumers a continued wide choice of consultants. The IT giant’s purchase of PwC Consulting will expand IBM’s IT services delivery portfolio with additional strategy, consulting, business process and industry expertise, concluded Brussels, after an investigation.…

By ALAN OSBORN
Farmers can’t complain that they lack information about long-term trends in agriculture. The European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the various United Nations food agencies, specialised agricultural research institutes and of course national governments all seem driven to make regular projections about crops, prices and markets several years into the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL WTO rules of origin committee has recommended global regulations stating whether food manufacturing processes are important enough for the processed ingredient or product to be legally a new product, made in the manufacturing country, not where its raw materials were sourced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL demand for paper is set to surge ahead, despite the harbingers of doom who predicted that IT advances would create a paper-less world, according to the latest World Commodity Survey of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INFORMATION technology and telecommunications companies should build security from hackers, virus spreaders and cyber-terrorists into the design of their networks from the outset, rather than tacking it on later as a result of painful experience, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has advised.…