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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
COMPULSORY pollution insurance could be introduced for companies at risk of breaking the proposed European Union (EU) environmental liability directive, under amendments approved to the legislation this week by the European Parliament.

The change tells the European Commission to check in five years’ time whether the directive has sparked private insurance and security instruments allowing polluters to cover themselves for potential liabilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPULSORY pollution insurance could be introduced for companies at risk of breaking the proposed European Union (EU) environmental liability directive, under amendments approved to the legislation this week by the European Parliament.

The change tells the European Commission to check in five years’ time whether the directive has sparked private insurance and security instruments allowing polluters to cover themselves for their potential liabilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has decided that it will not use its international merger control powers to oppose Anglo American’s bid for complete control of South-African mining company Kumba Resources, having examined the two players’ overlap in zircon and titanium dioxide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been formally asked by the European Commission to sign the revised European Convention for the Protection of Animals during International Transport. This (non-EU) Council of Europe agreement includes detailed rules on the most widely traded livestock, with variations for different types of transport.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SMALL shopkeepers in Britain may face a cut in demand for tobacco and alcohol in the coming months, if new pressure from the European Commission on the British government to reduce the amount of these goods seized by customs officers from the travelling public is successful.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OPPORTUNITIES for lawyers to handle varied and potentially lucrative liability claims against international organisations could arise from debates now being held at the United Nations (UN). Its legal committee is discussing whether they should be responsible for failing to achieve their formal objectives.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to make a formal inquiry into Germany’s ‘one-way’ drinks packaging deposit system on the grounds that it breaches European Union (EU) law by damaging trade between EU member countries. Under the system, introduced at the beginning of the year, retailers may only return deposits on empty cans and bottles when they have products of the same type, shape and size in stock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is lending US$12 million to China’s Southern Aluminium Industry Company (SAIC) to partially finance the installation of an aluminium hot rolling mill and improve the operation of SAIC’s existing cold rolling and foil mills.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN law is to guarantee the rights of European Union (EU) citizens to access environmental information, participate in environmental decision-making and grant them the right to bring public authorities to court over this policy area, if EU ministers agree a proposal from the European Commission.…