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ROAD SAFETY PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INSURANCE companies have been asked to subscribe to a European Road Safety Charter, committing them to back measures reducing road accidents. The move is part of a seven-year plan to improve road safety in the European Union that has been launched by the European Commission; it aims to halve the number of people killed in road accidents annually across the EU from 40,000 to 20,000 by 2010.…
FOOD SAFETY THINK PIECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOW the arguing is over and the dye has been cast, it is time to start work on the practicalities of admitting 10 new countries to the European Union, making this long discussed enlargement work for British and western European farmers.…
CHINESE BANKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce has claimed that a growing number of Chinese banks are unnecessarily rejecting valid banking documents, hindering the import of steel into the country.
It says that the value of rejected documents relating to steel shipments into China has now exceeded US$100 million.…
EU CHEMICALS PAPER
BY ALAN OSBORN
PETROCHEMICALS will in many cases be subject to more relaxed regulations under new draft chemicals legislation proposed by the European Commission. Brussels has agreed that petrochemicals of a similar composition can be grouped together where feasible and registered under one heading.…
LIBERALISATION DIRECTIVES - LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has beefed up the powers and duties of the European Regulators Group to be established following the passage into the law of the European Union’s new internal market package for the electricity industries.…
INFLATED EARNINGS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW report on accountancy fraud has found that US companies are so desperate to inflate their earnings they are prepared to pay millions of dollars in tax on this fantasy income. Is this the ultimate example of pure greed trampling over common sense or are such businesses once more ahead of the game?…
AFGHAN UPDATE
BY MARK ROWE
THE ‘LOOTING of civilisation’ in Baghdad, with its vivid images of wanton destruction and looting inflicted upon the Iraqi national museum, was all too familiar for those who have followed events in Afghanistan. But everyone must hope the parallels stop there, for the experience of those quietly seeking to recover Afghanistan’s glorious archaeological past does not bode well for the long-term restoration of Iraq’s treasures.…
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is preparing to strengthen the proposed European Union (EU) directive on environmental liability, which is designed to ensure that polluters pay for damage that they cause through intent or negligence.
MEP’s on the parliament’s legal affairs and internal market committee are supporting amendments that would extend the scope of this legislation.…
SOUTH PACIFIC MONEY LAUNDERING
BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE CLUTCH of much-maligned offshore financial centres (OFCs) on remote Pacific islands have been swamped by so many accusations of impropriety, they are now struggling to stay afloat.
Labelled as palm-fringed, sun-drenched laundries for the world’s dirty money, these tiny island states and dependent territories are trying to fend off attempts by international organisations to excommunicate them from the global financial church.…
ROAD SAFETY PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INSURANCE companies have been asked to subscribe to a European Road Safety Charter, committing them to back measures reducing road accidents. The move is part of a seven-year plan to improve road safety in the European Union that has been launched by the European Commission; it aims to halve the number of people killed in road accidents annually across the EU from 40,000 to 20,000 by 2010.…