Search Results for: International business

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to launch a joint review with the European Union’s (EU) footwear industry of EU policies and programmes designed to promote innovation and competition in the sector.

EU enterprise Commissioner Erkki Liikanen told the World Footwear Congress, in Brussels, that his officials and business representatives would “take a close look to these issues in the footwear industry of the enlarged EU,” which will include eastern European countries from 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has offered to ease the difficulties faced by personnel departments when recruiting specialists and top staff from non-European Union countries.

In talks for the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, Brussels says if its trading partners offer adequate concessions in return, it will improve access to a wide range of EU service sectors to overseas companies and individual professionals and qualified professionals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOM Vant, former chairman of Syncrude Canada, will become secretary general of the OECD’s business and industry advisory committee, replacing Douglas C Worth, a former IBM executive who has served since 1999.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WIDE-RANGING European Union regulation on improving health controls on the production, transportation and consumption of animal feed has been proposed by the European Commission. It urges a wide application of HACCP principles (hazard analysis and critical control points) in feed manufacture and use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has launched a publicly available database containing national environmental reports from 52 European and central Asian countries and five geographical regions. The database also includes international assessments of these countries, which include all European Union states, countries applying to join the EU and most former Soviet republics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned the globalisation of utility sectors is cutting jobs in gas distribution, with only the roll-out of new services in developing countries generating employment. ILO’s ‘Challenges and Opportunities Facing Public Utilities’ calls for more public consultation when preparing major changes, such as privatisation and liberalisation.*…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REPORTS sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency by the Japan Safeguards Office are expected to show that discrepancies in figures on the amount of nuclear waste at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant are due to statistical differences between initial calculations of how much nuclear material had been received by the reactor operator compared with the amounts that were actually measured later on.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has said it wants to launch quickly into an analysis of sites in Iraq targeted with weapons containing depleted uranium (DU), now that the US-UK led invasion appears to be winding up.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has proposed a summit of G8 environment ministers, the creation of a strong World Environment Organisation, which would take over the responsibilities of the United Nations Environment Programme as well as those of environmental departments amongst other multilateral agencies.…

BY PHILIP FINE AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE USA government has finalised procedures for framing safeguard protection minimising the impacts on the American textile industry from Chinese imports, with details due to be released soon. US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Grant Aldonas said requesters of protection would have to provide to CITA (the US Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements) specific information supporting a claim of market disruption.…