Search Results for: International law

BY MARK ROWE
CHINESE authorities have imposed strict new operational rules for commercial jets that are not equipped with airborne collision avoidance systems. Passenger jets without the second-generation airborne collision avoidance system, known as ACASII, will be prevented from taking off or landing between 8am and 9pm in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau is warning ships captains to avoid the Somalia coast because of the risk of attacks by pirates and kidnappers. The piracy-fighting arm of the International Chamber of Commerce has warned: “Ships unlucky enough to develop engine trouble after straying too close to the shores of Somalia are virtually certain to fall victim to armed gangs who will extort a stiff ransom from the owners.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS have been made by the Australian government for the trade in two species of Pacific toothfish to be controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). These species, Dissostichus eleginoides and mawsonii, which are also known as Chilean sea-bass, would be included on its Appendix II list, requiring traders to acquire special permits to deal in them.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN INTERNATIONAL campaign group Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has recently published a report claiming that in tests, 52 out of 72 name brand beauty products contained industrial chemicals known as phthalates; HCWH claims these can cause birth defects.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Commission energy officials have welcomed a recent joint declaration on natural gas by presidents Putin, of Russia, and Kuchma, of the Ukraine, as a “vital first step” in agreeing funnelling investment into improving the legal, safety and technical aspects of transporting Russian natural gas to the EU.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
A CHILD sexual abuse case will focus attention on one of the world’s most remote and famous islands: Pitcairn – a tiny British colony between New Zealand and Chile – which was settled by the Bounty mutineers in 1790.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has been censured by the European Ombudsman, Jacob Söderman, who has called on EU Member States to reconsider their refusal to release a report on business taxation to a firm of consultants, (which has chosen to remain anonymous).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has filed an appeal against the dismissal of its cigarette smuggling action in the US against three tobacco companies: Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds and Japan Tobacco. Notably, it has received formal support in the proceedings from the US Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association for its action, along with the World Health Organisation, the US Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN dyers and finishers are celebrating after the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act was amended by US House of Representatives to clarify the definition of US fabric bought by Caribbean clothing manufacturers wishing to take advantage of the law’s preferential trade terms.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN clothing manufacturers are lamenting amendments passed to the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act by US House of Representatives to clarify the definition of US fabric bought by Caribbean clothing manufacturers wishing to take advantage of the law’s preferential trade terms.…