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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new Trade Integration Mechanism (TIM) financial facility, which will allow it to help countries meeting balance of payments shortfalls resulting from multilateral trade liberalisation, especially the end of textile trade quotas this December.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL walnut symposium has been scheduled in Naples, Italy, from November 7-9, with experts considering the nut’s uses and its propagation. Basic and applied research will be presented. *http://www.walnut2004.sistemacongressi.com/…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) directive setting technical limits on the exposure of workers to electromagnetism has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. The legislation implements recommendations from the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection, giving employers the responsibility to assess exposure limits and ensure maximum levels are not exceeded.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Textile and Clothing Bureau (ITCB) council of representatives has attacked the European Union for unilaterally widening the scope of its import quota restrictions to the 10 southern and eastern Europe countries joining the EU this weekend. The textile-exporting bloc claimed such a unilateral extension of quotas had already been ruled illegal by the World Trade Organisation, with the ITCB noting this infringement came months before the abolition of all such quotas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENT ministers of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have called on the body’s rich country members to redouble their efforts to separate economic growth from ecological degradation or miss established OECD environmental targets for 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN chemical industry is systematically over-estimating the costs of the European Union’s (EU) proposed environmental control system REACH, a paper commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has claimed. The report ‘Cry Wolf’, written by the International Chemical Secretariat, includes five case studies of previous environmental conventions or legislation, such as the Montreal Protocol and the EU’s auto-oil programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) directive setting technical limits on the exposure of workers to electromagnetism has finally been approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, following years of debates. All workers will be technically covered by the legislation, which includes rules on the maximum level of exposure that should be faced by staff working with or near power lines, mobile phone and radar antennae.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
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THE COURT project is under the contracting authority of the Administration

des Batiments Publics of Luxembourg and is being implemented under the supervision of the Public Works Ministry of Luxembourg, in collaboration with the Court of Justice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Spanish utility Enagás SA up to Euro 450 million to reinforce and extend the country’s gas transmission network and reserve facilities. These improvements would cover most of the country and are included in the 2002-2011 Spanish National Energy Plan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECJ rulings are sometimes quite unexpected and can affect employment practices in ways that all but the most informed human resource professionals have bargained for. To keep abreast of the game, HR managers should first of all monitor the ECJ itself for information about the background to cases and the dates of judgements, including Advocate-General’s rulings which are not binding on the full court but which are supported about 80 per cent of the time.…