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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH Airways has lost its appeal against a Euro 6.8 million fine imposed by the European Commission in 1999 over its system of granting travel agents financial incentives to travel agents for selling its flights. Confirming the Commission’s decision that such a system was an abuse of the dominant position enjoyed by BA in the air travel market, the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance rejected the airline’s claim that it had been victimised.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Vision International People Group plans to build a US$100 million plant in the Moscow region next year, initially producing drinking water and a small range of soft drinks. It will later expand to produce juices and milk.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank and its private sector subsidiary the International Finance Corporation has pledged their support for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative launched by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at 2002’s Johannesburg sustainable development summit. It aims to improve accounting and auditing controls surrounding lucrative oil, gas and mining contracts in developing countries, where – said the bank – “the lack of accountability and transparency about these revenues can exacerbate poor governance and lead to more corruption, conflict, and inequality.”…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed writing the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) 1993 International Safety Management Code (ISM) into European law, expanding its compulsory application beyond ferries operating on a regular service to and from European ports. These are the only ships currently covered by EU legislation implementing the code, but if ministers and MEPs agree, this would be extended to cover all EU flagged passenger and cargo ships, plus any cargo ship sailing to or from Member States on a cabotage feeder service.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to adopt clean-up programmes for all sea water areas designated for shellfish harvesting waters, breaking a 1979 European Union (EU) directive. The Irish government has also been told to pay the costs of the legal action, brought by the European Commission.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SECURITY officials at Dorval International airport, Montreal, are confiscating fruitcakes because check-in scanners cannot detect weapons that may be hidden inside of it because of the product’s density. The traditional Christmas cake has been added to the list of prohibited objects, alongside switchblades, scissors and toy guns when boarding a plane.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SECURITY officials at Dorval International airport, Montreal, are confiscating fruitcakes because check-in scanners cannot detect weapons that may be hidden inside of it because of the product’s density. The traditional Christmas cake has been added to the list of prohibited objects, alongside switchblades, scissors and toy guns when boarding a plane.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COMPLICATED series of European Union (EU) regulations affecting the honey industry is to be codified in one piece of legislation. European Commission officials have drawn up the unified law to make the regulations easier to understand and use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COMPLICATED series of European Union (EU) regulations affecting the honey industry is to be codified in one piece of legislation. European Commission officials have drawn up the unified law to make the regulations easier to understand and use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PROTRACTED talks between the United States and the European Union (EU) over allowable oenological practices are continuing to drag on, with the European Commission proposing that US exporters should be allowed to sell wine made in ways banned in the EU for another year (until December 2004).…