Search Results for: International law

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s foreign ministers have warned in a tough joint statement that the EU’s relationship and cooperation with Iran would be “reviewed” if its government did not agree to an enhanced nuclear inspections protocol as required by the International Atomic Energy Agency.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN federal judge was within his right to temporarily shut down state government approved salmon farms, a US appeals court ruled on August 7. The appellate judge had assessed a May ruling, where a federal judge ordered two Norwegian-owned companies (Atlantic Salmon of Maine and Stolt Sea Farms) to fallow their 12 farms from six to 36 months, after being fined for damaging Maine’s coast with excess feed, faeces and medications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the acquisition of VDBO, the oil seeds division of Unilever Bestfoods by Archer Daniels Midland International Ltd (UK).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has declared northern Argentina (north of the 42° parallel) free from foot and mouth disease (FMD), albeit with the help of vaccination, backdated to July 7…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S leather goods exports have slipped for the third consecutive year, as manufacturers of international brands of leather goods move away from the country to tap cheaper labour costs in China. Exports are expected to fall below last year’s total value of Baht 70 billion (US$1.6 billion), according to the Thai Leather Goods Association, which said that the SARS virus and the Iraq war had further added pressure to the market.…

Keith Nuthall
LEGAL proceedings are being brought by the European Commission against the governments of Ireland and Luxembourg over their alleged failure to implement the European Union’s seafarers’ working time directive. Brussels claims that neither Member State has notified it of any legislation writing the 1999 directive into their national laws.…

Keith Nuthall
LEGAL proceedings are being brought by the European Commission against the governments of Ireland and Luxembourg over their alleged failure to implement the European Union’s seafarers’ working time directive. Brussels claims that neither Member State has notified it of any legislation writing the 1999 directive into their national laws.…

Keith Nuthall
THE PURCHASE of adequate accident coverage for all passenger ships operating in European Union waters should become mandatory under proposed EU legislation from the European Commission; it implements last year’s updating of the International Maritime Organisation’s Athens convention on passenger ferries, which limits the liability of a carrier for death or injury involving a traveller to around US$325,000 per passenger.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new Galileo global positioning satellite project should command enough earmarked frequency to avoid interference problems, following the recent International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference. Its four weeks of negotiations set aside sufficient radio spectrum for Galileo, to the satisfaction of Erkki Liikanen, EU enterprise and information society Commissioner.…

BY PHILIP FINE

LEGAL soliloquies, crime-victim hysterics and a defendant’s heavily-applied charms will have to be filmed outside New York courtrooms now that a judge has upheld the constitutionality of a law that bans cameras from the state’s courts. Court TV had launched a suit against the State of New York, one of nine states that bans cameras at trial courts.…