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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW - AARHUS
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 environmental violations to courts, if EU ministers agree a proposal from the European Commission.…
GENDER DISCRIMINATION
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE INSURANCE industry has reacted with a chorus of dismay to a sweeping proposal by the European Commission to eliminate gender discrimination in the supply of goods and services. The central element in the Brussels plan is that the use of sex as a factor in the calculation of premiums and benefits for insurance and related financial services would be outlawed.…
TRANSPARANCY INITIATIVE
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.”…
EAST ASIA ICAO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting has supported a plan to boost civil airliner access to Afghanistan airspace, offering new choices for long-haul flights from southern and east Asia to Europe. ICAO’s coordination meeting on reduced vertical separation (RVSM) implementation for the Bay of Bengal and India backed an International Air Transport Association (IATA) proposed traffic orientation scheme for commercial flights crossing the Kabul FIR.…
US DUTY RETALIATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL leather trade is facing a fall in demand for American raw hides, skin and finished leather exports, as well as leather finished goods and components, with the European Union (EU) planning to impose heavy duties such exports from the United States.…
ECJ DATA PROTECTION CASE
BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
IT department managers will have to be more careful about the release of personal sensitive data onto websites as a result of a ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on European Union (EU) data protection directives, a legal specialist has said.…
ECOPOINTS
BY ALAN OSBORN
NEGOTIATIONS on a new eco-points system setting quotas for road hauliers travelling through Alpine passes in Austria have stalled following disagreement between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers. The UK, along with Germany and France, blocked the deal arguing that it would bar transit through Austria for many vehicles.…
EP TELECOMS REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called on the European Commission and the European Regulators Group for telecommunications to commit themselves to definitively solving “old” problems in the sector – including international roaming tariffs, mobile call termination tariffs and number portability – before focusing on new questions, such as joint dominance and developing 3G.…
SRI LANKA - US
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo
THE UNITED States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will provide technical assistance to Sri Lanka so it can comply with the rules of the US Container Security Initiative. The agency has asked US company Aerospace
Services International Inc.…
SRI LANKA - US
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo
THE UNITED States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will provide technical assistance to Sri Lanka so it can comply with the rules of the US Container Security Initiative. The agency has asked US company Aerospace
Services International Inc.…