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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to shore up the increasingly shaky reputation of its merger control regime, by proposing a comprehensive package of reforms designed to streamline its regulation European competition law, focusing its efforts on real problem cases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has admitted that it has never been able to confidently verify whether North Korea (DPRK) has complied with the Non Proliferation Treaty Safeguards Agreement that seeks to prevent the country using its nuclear power plants to make weapons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER privatisation has certainly had its critics, but it has a new supporter in the shape of the European Commission. It has publicly backed the growing privatisation of Europe’s water utilities, with its internal market commissioner praising British government moves to inject competition into its national sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has warned investors to beware of a new twist on the Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Fraud after a number of fictitious banking websites were discovered to be falsely aligning themselves with legitimate offshore financial institutions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOOD practice guidelines of how to reduce a company’s exposure to HIV/AIDS in the workplace have been released by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. Its note provides companies with advice on designing and implementing HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes for employees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties, the global animal health organisation, has published a comprehensive set of easily understood information cards on all the main aquatic animal illnesses.

These are now available on line and include data on susceptible species, transmission, symptoms and treatment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL agreement has been signed to develop a new combination anti-malaria drug. Called pyronaridine-artesunate, it will be jointly developed by the Tropical Diseases Research Programme, the Medicines for Malaria Venture and South Korea’s Shin Poong Pharmaceuticals. It could be registered by early 2006.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SOUTH African airports – including Durban and Johannesburg’s international terminals – are using sheepdogs to scare birds from their runways to increase safety and reduce the bill of millions of Rand a year caused by aircraft bird strikes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOVE of the secretariat of the International Cocoa Organisation to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from London, has been postponed because of the political and military turmoil in the country. The decision to go ahead with the move had only been taken this May.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has – almost certainly – a new tobacco advertising directive, which its framers will hope will be more legally robust than its predecessor; struck down by the European Court of Justice. The EU Council of Ministers saved the European Parliament from having to debate the proposal a second time by accepting the few amendments that were agreed at a parliamentary plenary session in November.…