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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIGNIFICANT trend towards the consolidation in the European Union’s insurance sector has been highlighted by a report from the EU’s statistical agency Eurostat, which has released detailed data about 1999.

In that year, said the study, the number of EU insurance businesses decreased by 8.4 per cent between 1996 and 1999, with a particularly sharp decline in Britain, where numbers fell by 23.7 per cent.…

Keith Nuthall
CANADA’S ice-wine industry has suffered a serious blow because of unseasonably mild winter weather. Most wineries in the Niagara on the Lake region in Ontario will see a decline of 50 per cent or more in their ice-wine grape yields.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL Forum on Food Safety Regulators has been staged by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, (FAO), and the World Health Organisation, reflecting concern about recent food safety incidents, such as BSE, that the FAO claims have “caused serious turmoil in the world food markets and raised concern among consumers.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE ATTACK on the World Trade Centre has put a new focus on the

provision of third party recovery contracts through which companies can

purchase back-up facilities in the event of disaster. Some 80 per cent of

all financial sector companies now have some kind of third party contract

giving them access to offices and other premises, computing and

communication facilities and processing resources that can make the

difference between going bust and carrying on business reasonably normally.…

Keith Nuthall
ONE of the more uplifting stories to emerge from the World Trade

Centre disaster was the way Merrill Lynch, the world’s largest stockbroker,

got its people back at work and its systems running again so quickly

afterwards. Ian Ross, business continuity manager at Merrill Lynch, told

delegates at this week’s 2-day contingency planning and disaster recovery

in financial services conference in London how it happened and what was

learnt.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S ice-wine industry has suffered a serious blow because of unseasonably mild winter weather. Most wineries in the Niagara on the Lake region in Ontario will see a decline of 50 per cent or more in their ice-wine grape yields.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation has claimed that a probe of working conditions in Cambodian textile factories found no evidence of child labour, forced labour or sexual harassment, but revealed problems related to overtime payments, working hours and union discrimination.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIGHTER noise restrictions on commercial aircraft visiting European Union airports have been proposed by the European Commission; it has tabled a new directive that would allow the worst affected airports to ban aircraft that marginally comply with the existing Chapter 3 standard accepted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EU Council of Ministers has, as expected, granted political approval to a hastily drawn-up proposed regulation on boosting civil aviation security, based on rules written in Document 30 of the European Civil Aviation Conference, Europe’s aviation policy development body.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE JAPAN Association of Corporate Executives has called on the Japanese government to being forward the planned expansion of Tokyo International Airport at Haneda, asking it to agree a plan to enlarge its capacity by March 2002.…