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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REFORM of European company law legislation has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.

The aim of the tabled changes to the EU’s First Company Law Directive (68/151/EEC), said a Commission statement, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public while at the same time simplifying ….disclosure…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency assembled team has been searching for two abandoned Strontium 90 generators in western Georgia, the Caucasus. They are highly radioactive and had been used by the former USSR military as thermo-electric generators for communication stations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CIGARETTES have changed a great deal in recent years though not all smokers may realise by just how much. Once it was commonplace to roll your own, using local tobaccos. Today the market is dominated by filters and international brands, many of them ranking among the world’s best-known consumer products.…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union moves towards the mandatory application of International Accounting Standards for listed companies, the European Commission has proposed reforms to the existing directives that harmonise national accounting laws that will remain in place for other businesses.…

Keith Nuthall
A REFORM of the EU’s First Company Law Directive has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.

The aim said the Commission, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public.”…

Keith Nuthall
A REFORM of the EU’s First Company Law Directive has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.

The aim said the Commission, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public.”…

BTY MARK ROWE
THERE is a clear moral argument that individuals and companies should nurture the Earth’s precious resources. But such a stance also makes profound economic sense since it reduces a company’s waste and improves efficiency. This is particularly the case for a tobacco company where every stage of the production, distribution and consumption of tobacco products has environmental implications.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE INSURANCE industry is being warned by the International Chamber of Commerce’s Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) to be suspicious of documents promoting policies using the good name of the ICC.

Fraudsters are mentioning a fake standard called the “Modified Insurance Guarantee ICC 4081,” used in fraudulent documents relating to bank guarantees and letters of credit to add credibility to fictitious policies and high yield investment schemes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNCIL of the International Civil Aviation Organisation has agreed to set up a non-profit service, offering airports, ground handlers and airlines third-party war risk liability insurance cover from US$50 million per insured, should the commercial market continue to withdraw such protection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank has announced that it is investing US$100 million in Coumbian insurance and finance company the Suramericana Group; the investment is one of the most comprehensive projects ever undertaken by the IFC in Latin America.…