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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve an updated list of technology whose export should be tightly restricted because of concerns that in the wrong hands, they could be used to develop military and terrorist weapons. European Commission officials have been reviewing the EU’s list of so-called dual-use goods for more than a year and Brussels now formally proposed its new catalogue of controlled exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunication Union is developing global standards for an Internet telephone protocol, allowing a single number to access many types of terminals and services, including phones, faxes, e-mails, pagers, mobiles and websites, at home, at work or while roaming.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RULES and procedures for registering museum names on the Internet under the “dot museum” domain have become clearer following an agreement between ICANN, the internet supervisory body, and MuseDoma, (the Museum Domain Management Association).

MuseDoma has been founded and is financed by the Paris-based International Council of Museums and the J.Paul…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL pharmaceuticals companies will find it easier to export to China in the future, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers for transport was expected this month (Oct 15) to approve detailed proposals to beef up aviation security within the EU, as a response to the terrorist attacks on the USA and continuing concern about reprisals to the military action launched by the west.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AVIATION tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, have led to the European Union developing a wide-range of air security regulations and policies, with ministers agreeing to fast-track their passage onto the EU statute book.

Meeting in Luxemburg, the Council of Ministers for transport granted political approval to a hastily drawn-up proposed regulation on aviation security.…

BY ALAN OSBORN AND KEITH NUTHALL
A NUMBER of tax regimes run by European Union countries are being investigated by the European Commission, which is following up suspicions that they are so loose, they amount to a breach of the EU’s competition laws.…

BY RICHARD HURST
A WOMEN in African Petroleum & Energy conference was recently held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in a bid to promote female participation in what has traditionally been a heaviily male dominated corner of a global industry not known for female influence.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOLIDAYS and pregnancy leave are a serious business, both for the employees who take them and the employers who pay for them. Unfortunately for personnel departments who might want a little more flexibility over whether they should shell out or not, recent cases at the European Court of Justice have underlined the right of EU citizens to take paid leave, rather than erode them.…

Keith Nuthall
A STREAMLINED system for removing faulty non-food items from retailers and service providers across the European Union, where goods have been shown to be a risk to consumers, is to be set up, following the agreement of reforms to the EU general product safety directive.…