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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers is poised this Thursday (27 Nov) to choose a preferred candidate as a site for the ITER international fusion reactor prototype. Assessments of the two competing EU sites Cadarache in France and Vandellós in Spain have failed to choose clearly between the two, making it unlikely that a consensus will emerge.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is continuing its slow deliberations over the writing of the International Maritime Organisation maritime security code into EU law. The European Parliament this month (Nov) “heavily amended” the legislation, insisting, for example, that the code applies to EU domestic shipping by July 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$30 million to leading Ukraine poultry producer CJSC Myronivsky Khliboprodukt. The loan will support expansion and modernisation, involving improved efficiency, production capacity, and strengthened distribution. The company will expand its breeding and broiler farms, hatcheries, processing plants and set up a new feedmill.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is continuing its slow deliberations over the writing of the International Maritime Organisation maritime security code into EU law. The European Parliament this month (Nov) “heavily amended” the legislation, insisting, for example, that the code applies to EU domestic shipping by July 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Commission are teaming up to introduce two new manufacturing standards in the European Union (EU): one on anti-theft protection and another on reducing the flammability of materials used inside cars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.

THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ordered Italy to liberalise its regulations governing access to the Italian legal profession, by demanding that its national bar council does not reject out of hand qualifications gained in other European Union (EU) Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy ministers have agreed new rules for applying value added tax to cross-border gas supplies that will reduce confusion created by increasing cross-border trading in energy supplies. Now, traders re-selling supplies who are not established in the same country as the supplier will pay VAT through an obligatory reverse charge system.…

BY MARK ROWE
EMPLOYERS across the European Union will be required to carry out risk assessments of the dangers to their staff from radio, television and mobile phone masts in future, following agreement of a directive in principle by the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT is an odd and depressing fact that employees who expose corruption, negligence and other malpractices in their work-place usually end up more reviled and outcast than those actually responsible for the wrong-doing in the first place. The institutions of the European Union offer excellent case studies in this regard.…