Search Results for: International law

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JUDGES and jurors across the continent of Europe should in future be protected from corruption by their national governments in all legal cases, under an extension of a Criminal Law Convention on Corruption that has been agreed by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THREE tobacco companies – Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and Japan Tobacco – have failed in an action in the European Court of First Instance to have the European Commission’s decision to open civil actions against them in New York annulled as illegal under EU law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for a threshold of 1mSv/Hh to be inserted in to a proposed European directive on controlling high activity sealed radioactive sources, to clarify when the legislation should be followed. MEPs also passed non-binding amendments to highlight suppliers’ responsibilities and that all potential cross-border movements within, to and from the EU should be monitored.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending US$5.4 million to the Maritime Port Authority of St Petersburg to fund the construction of a maritime navigation safety system in the main Russian sector of the Baltic Sea, where a future surge in tanker traffic is anticipated.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has dismissed claims that European law allows governments to automatically ban the use in wine brands of geographical designations that are not specifically protected because of concerns that they may mislead consumers into thinking vintages are from traditional wine-making regions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALAYSIA has been awarded control of part of the Celebes Sea by the International Court of Justice, enabling it to control local oil and gas prospecting. The area surrounds the islands of Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan, off Borneo, which had also been claimed by Indonesia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOOD practice of an innovative honey company has been highlighted through its winning a United Nations Development Programme prize for promoting small-scale honey production in Kenya. Honey Care Africa, supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has won the US$30,000 Equator Prize.…

BY MARK ROWE
A SONG or customs passed down through generations by an aboriginal tribe can reveal as much about that society as a physical artefact such as their traditional clothing or funerary urns. But while these last two items can be preserved for posterity easily enough, the challenge to retain more intangible objects such as a musical story is far greater.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
LOW uranium prices that are encouraging the international nuclear power industry are giving little incentive for the uranium mining industry to develop new sources, Gerald Grandey, President of Cameco Corporation, the Canada-based world’s uranium producer has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties has confirmed an outbreak of Epizootic Haematopoietic Necrosis on a Finland fish farm. The international organisation has warned of 2,600 possible cases of European Sheatfish Virus on the farm, in south-eastern Finland, near the Russian border, on the River Vuoksi.…