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BY ALAN OSBORN
THE RULES and procedures for registering museum names on the Internet under the “dot museum” domain have become clearer following an agreement between ICANN, the internet supervisory body, and MuseDoma, (the Museum Domain Management Association).

MuseDoma has been founded and is financed by the Paris-based International Council of Museums and the J.Paul…

Keith Nuthall
TOP officials at the European Union’s Council of Ministers headquarters in Brussels will this month be studying the text of the European Commisson’s proposed regulation of aviation security that was drawn up in the wake of the terrorist tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS Inc.,(Canada), has bought 100 per cent of Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company’s shares for US$275 million.

The purchase price comprises of US$105 million in cash, 4,241,312 common shares of Rothmans, having an ascribed value of US$65 million, and US$105 million in bonds to be issued at closing by Santa Fe and to be repaid over four years from Santa Fe’s operating cash flows.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunication Union is developing global standards for an Internet telephone protocol, allowing a single number to access many types of terminals and services, including phones, faxes, e-mails, pagers, mobiles and websites, at home, at work or while roaming.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing a potentially groundbreaking initiative to overcome the problems created by the existence of 15 different tax systems throughout the European Union, which could involve setting a harmonised EU corporation tax. In a report due to be released shortly, obtained by Accountancy Age, the Commission says differing tax national systems have caused losses in economic efficiency, generated compliance costs and contributed to a lack of transparency.…

Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union competition Commissioner Mario Monti has announced that Brussels is to clamp down on special tax regimes affecting financial services in 11 Member States, which it claims are probably so lax, they constitute illegal state aid payments that could unfairly favour local companies.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers for transport was expected this month (Oct 15) to approve detailed proposals to beef up aviation security within the EU, as a response to the terrorist attacks on the USA and continuing concern about reprisals to the military action launched by the west.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signed an agreement with Russia on space research cooperation. EU research commissioner Phillipe Busquin and Russian space agency director general Youri Koptiev agreed a joint document on the Euro-Russian Space Partnership. The deal focuses on mutual assistance in the development of satellite navigation systems such as Galileo and Glonass, Brussels’ “global monitoring for environment and security” (GMES) initiative and launch services, notably the launch of Soyuz rockets from the European Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN comes fourth in an international league of 17 developed countries which ranks them according to their achievements, resources and capacity for future development in the field of innovation, the European Commission said today Monday. Sweden comes top followed by the US and Finland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL pharmaceuticals companies will find it easier to export to China in the future, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…