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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DYNAMIC online forum on European energy policy has been launched by an international consortium; the European Union-funded INTUSER website contains information about current energy issues and questionnaires allowing specialists and the public to contribute to policy debates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the British government to reform Gibraltar’s offshore company taxation rules by ensuring its ‘Exempt Company’ regime is phased out by December 2005 at the latest. Its action follows an inquiry, which led to the Commission concluding that the tax system constituted illegal state aid, banned under EU law because it unfairly favours one European company over another.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIMALAYAN kingdom of Bhutan has launched a ‘tobacco free’ programme, aimed at persuading its mostly Buddhist citizens from abiding by a often ignored 1729 law banning them from smoking; indeed 18 of the country’s 20 districts have banned the sale of tobacco, leaving only the capital, Thimphu, as a safe haven for selling tobacco products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) judges and courts requiring assistance with cases that involve more than one EU Member State will be able to summon help from special international contact points from the New Year, when the details of the new European Judicial Network are posted on the Internet.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN its ongoing scrutiny of potential breeches of security at airports, US law enforcement has charged at least 118 workers at New York City’s Kennedy and La Guardia airports with lying about their backgrounds in order to secure a job.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has called on the European Union and its Member States to scale down and harmonise requirements that they are making on businesses to store Internet and e-mail traffic data to help police and intelligence services fight organised crime and terrorists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is rare that an international organisation report on a scandal involving crime, corruption, war and environmental degradation names and shames high profile companies, but that is what is contained within the latest United Nations (UN) Security Council report on the Congo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGREEMENT in principle has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over a proposed EU Regulation writing into European law the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) convention on the control of harmful anti-fouling systems on ships, (AFS Convention).…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN tobacco unit of cigarette giant Philip Morris has launched civil legal cases against a number of small shop retailers in the USA who it alleges have been selling counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes. The company has instigated 15 lawsuits against 88 retailers after undercover agents for Philip Morris USA purchased cigarettes and then had them tested.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TURKISH-OWNED chain of Russian shopping malls and supermarkets is to receive a US$70 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation to almost double the company’s retail space in the country. Ramenka already operates four shopping malls and 10 supermarkets in the Moscow area under the name Ramstore.…