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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN an increasingly borderless world, the power of international intellectual property conventions is growing ever stronger and agriculture is being affected by this trend as much as mining and IT.

Take new crop varieties. In the EU, since 1995 Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) has been established.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ALL 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a global programme to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at ICAO Headquarters in Montreal.…

Keith Nuthall
EXPERTS at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) are discussing a proposal to set up a non-profit company that would offer airports, ground handlers and airlines third-party war risk liability insurance cover from US$50 million per insured, should the commercial market withdraw such protection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that deepening concern about terrorism following the September 11 attacks has led to tighter security in the civil aviation industry, but there have also been important implications for the shipping sector. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA is breaking new ground in anti-crime public-private partnerships with plans for a crackdown on on-line credit card fraud. The country’s Internet Industry Association is establishing a cybercrime code with local law enforcement agencies that will see Internet service providers working hand in hand with police.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
A PROGRAMME to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services, has been agreed by all 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at its headquarters in Montreal, Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Council secretariat officials have told Lloyds List that the March 25th and 26th transport and telecommunications Council of Ministers will try to reach political agreement on the establishment of a single EU committee on safe seas and on the prevention of pollution by ships, which would replace a number of committees covering these policy areas.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government is to launch pilot projects setting up large-scale “integrated” tanneries, offering a wide range of products and services, under its 10th Five Year Plan goal of boosting leather exports. Its aim is to boost economies of scale, sharpening global competitiveness.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INDIAN government has abandoned its appeal against last December’s World Trade Organisation ruling that it had broken global commerce rules by insisting that auto-manufacturers within its territory not only promise to buy some components locally, but that they export products of an equal value of imported inputs.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE SOUTH African Department of Minerals and Energy and Shell South Africa have announced the signing of a letter of intent to develop a natural gas industry in the country’s southern Cape provinces. The two parties are to jointly evaluate the prospects of introducing natural gas from the Kudu fields in neighbouring Namibia; this assessment will include the transmission of gas, including the possible construction of a pipeline.…