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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.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed stripping immunity from existing EU anti-dumping duties on imports of Polish pallets enjoyed by seven companies, who will henceforth, (assuming EU ministers agree the move), pay the tariffs. Six of the companies were found to have broken promises not to dump pallets on the EU market, while one is an associated company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The following communication, dated 6 December 2001, from the Permanent Mission of Thailand to the Chairman of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated pursuant to Article 21.6 of the DSU.

Status Report on the Implementation of the Recommendations and Rulings in the Dispute “Thailand – Anti-Dumping Duties on Angles, Shapes and Sections of Iron or Non-Alloy Steel and H-Beams from Poland” (WT/DS122) On 5 April 2001, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) adopted1 the Appellate Body Report and the Panel Report, as modified by the Appellate Body Report, (the Reports) in the dispute Thailand – Anti-Dumping Duties on Angles, Shapes and Sections of Iron or Non-Alloy Steel and H-Beams from Poland (WT/DS122), recommending that the DSB request that Thailand bring its anti-dumping measure found in the Reports to be inconsistent with the Agreement on the Implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994 (Anti-Dumping Agreement), into conformity with its obligations under that Agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties imposed by Thailand on imports from Poland of angles, shapes and sections of iron or non-alloy steel and H-beams are to be maintained, despite Bangkok losing a World Trade Organisation disputes appeal earlier this year.

It had stated that Thailand should amend its duties, finding their imposition to be “inconsistent” with the rules of the WTO anti-dumping agreement.…

Keith Nuthall
POLAND has refused to accept a recommendation from the Textiles Monitoring Bureau of the World Trade Organisation that it lift transitional safeguard duties imposed on imports of acrylic/modacrylic staple yarn, pure or mixed with wool or fine animal hair, from Romania.…

BY BEATA PLONKA
POLAND’S two key domestic confectionary players have started negotiations to launch a joint-venture, which would between them control 10 per cent of the country’s robust confectionary market, one of the largest in Europe. The companies Jutrzenka and Mieszko want to compete more effectively with multinational competitors Nestle, Cadbury and Jacobs Suchard, which control 80 per cent of Poland’s confectionary market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CITIZENS of eastern European countries which have signed association agreements with Brussels, paving the way for their accession to the European Union, cannot be refused the right to live in a Member State, if they can become successfully self-employed, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH American Tobacco Company is this year’s third new largest investor in Poland, after the French Credit Agricole, and the Casino supermarket company, according to a Polish government report. The company, present on the Polish market since 1991, is the now third largest tobacco producer in the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOLIDAYS and pregnancy leave are a serious business, both for the employees who take them and the employers who pay for them. Unfortunately for personnel departments who might want a little more flexibility over whether they should shell out or not, recent cases at the European Court of Justice have underlined the right of EU citizens to take paid leave, rather than erode them.…

BY BEATA PLONKA, in Cracow, Poland
THE POLISH Ministry of Defence has banned irregular civilian flights from the airspace above the capital Warsaw. Only controlled regular traffic has been allowed in from October 15, along with aircraft owned by the military and emergency services.…