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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL community is expected to make solid progress towards the creation of a United Nations Convention against Corruption, during the ongoing third meeting of the ad hoc committee established to draft the treaty.

This session, which lasts until October 11 will especially focus on corruption within the private sector.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
DJIBOUTI’S government has signed a management contract with Dubai Ports International Authority to run the east African country’s international airport, the UN has reported. The Gulf authority is to improve the airport’s services and infrastructure and reform its fee structure and collection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL questionnaire on container transport insurance has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on liability for multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements, (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport operations involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL questionnaire on container transport insurance has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on liability for multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements, (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport operations involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
SMALL-SHOP owners in Saskatchewan will be bound by the province’s Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits the display of cigarettes in retail outlets where they can be seen by under-18’s, after the collapse of a court challenge by a tobacco firm that argued the law is unconstitutional in Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIMPLIFICATION of European Union life insurance legislation has been approved by the European Parliament and will now come into force, rolling the many EU rules and regulations affecting the industry into one single code.

Part of an ongoing effort to streamline Brussels’ often baffling and Byzantine strands of legislation, MEP’s agreed with ministers to delay final approval of a united life directive, so that recent changes on solvency margins could be incorporated.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to formally ratify the new International Cocoa Agreement 2001. The current International Cocoa Agreement 1993 is to remain in force until 30 September 2003 at the latest, when it will be superceded by the new deal.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A LEGAL challenge this week will attempt to halt a trend of lengthening American copyright protection. The US Supreme Court was to hear a case on Wednesday (October 9) seeking to annul a four-years-old law that extended copyright protection by an additional 20 years.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson and Hedges Inc. Canada, has lost a court battle in Saskatchewan, where the firm had argued the Canadian province’s Tobacco Control Act contravened the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Canada’s Constitution and that it violated federal anti-smoking legislation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission formally proposed a law today (Tuesday) insisting that all airlines operating in EU airspace should be obliged to carry insurance for 250,000 so-called special drawing rights per passenger (about Pounds 200,000) against their liability for death or injury.…