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BY MONICA DOBIE
ONTARIO’S tobacco auctions have been wrapped up for the 2001 crop, which has proved to be a successful year for growers in the key Canadian province, being blessed with a very dry summer.

A tally of 117,094,080 pounds of tobacco was sold at an average price of CAN$1.79 per pound, up two cents from last year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

US bankruptcies rose 19 percent last year. Filings totaled 1,492,129 in 2001, compared to 1,253,444 in the year 2000. Business filings spiked 13 per cent, while, non-business, accounting for 97 per cent of all filings, grew by 19.2 per cent, according to figures from the Administrative Office of the U.S.…

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.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE MALAYSIAN government is to press ahead with its decision to transfer all passenger jet operations from Subang airport in the centre of Kuala Lumpur to KLIA, (Kuala Lumpur International Airport), the new international airport 40 miles outside the city, by July this year.…

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 MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
INTERNATIONAL airports across Canada will begin using iris scanners to speed up the security processing of passengers as early as this summer.

Toronto and Vancouver airports are expected to be the first to install the devices, in August; they would allow selected travellers to confirm their identities through a checkpoint scan within thirty seconds or less upon arrival at Canada Customs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been given authority to negotiate a comprehensive “Governing International Fisheries Agreement” with the USA. EU ministers said Brussels officials should

Meanwhile, the EU Council of Ministers has agreed a regulation aiming at boosting cod stocks in the Irish Sea this year, protecting adult cod during the spawning season, notably enforcing an area closure from February.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DRAFT United Nations Convention against Corruption has been considered for the first time by a special committee established to present a final version to member governments for approval.

The document currently includes plenty of square brackets, with even the purpose of the convention up for grabs, with two Article One’s being discussed.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has endorsed a mandatory global air industry security audit, checking standards in all its 187 member states. The initial cost of the ICAO Aviation Security Plan of Action is US$ 17 million, agreed a High-Level Ministerial Conference held in the organisation’s Montreal headquarters.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A STRING of cases have been launched by the European Commission against Member States of the European Union to try and force them to comply with EU water legislation; under existing rules, failure to abide by the court’s rulings can see national governments being hit with huge daily recurring fines of up to Euro 100,000.…