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BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRECISE guidance about the legality under European law of government intervention to make good damage caused by natural disasters is likely to emerge from a new European Commission state aid inquiry in Italy. Brussels fears that an Italian law, giving benefits to private investors pumping money into disaster zones, may fall foul of EU state aid legislation designed to prevent national governments giving their local businesses unfair advantages over those from other Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DIRECTOR general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei has called for the creation of a group of experts to examine the creation of international controls on the use of weapons usable material such as plutonium and enriched uranium in civilian nuclear power programmes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWIFT agreement has been reached in Brussels over a directive – proposed this Spring – which will impose safety standards on auto-manufacturers to ensure their vehicles cause less injuries and fewer deaths in accidents with pedestrians. The Council of Ministers and the European Parliament have struck a deal over the shape of the legislation, which will compel manufacturers to bring in new designs – for instance to bonnets and bumpers – aimed at significantly reducing collision impacts for cars and light vans travelling at speeds up to 40 kph (about 25 mph).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised this autumn to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL rules preventing ships from dumping untreated sewage into coastal waters have been ratified into force nearly 30 years after being negotiated. These amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships say international ferries can only discharge untreated sewage more than 12 nautical miles from the nearest land.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S decision to use non-binding guidelines for advising employers and employees on their respective rights regarding the workplace monitoring and privacy of e mails and Internet use has been criticised by a report by a specialist European Union employment affairs body.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has been given a final deadline to respond to allegations that the British government broke European Union (EU) law during its protracted dispute with Lloyd’s of London names. A plenary session of the European Parliament today (Thur25/9) voted to give the Commission until November 15 to provide its opinion on whether the First Insurance directive was properly applied by the British government in its regulation of Lloyd’s in the 1980s and early 1990s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S decision to use non-binding guidelines for advising employers and employees on their respective rights regarding the workplace monitoring and privacy of e mails and Internet use has been criticised by a report by a specialist European Union employment affairs body.…