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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has been successfully pushing the adoption of a 1968 convention harmonising road signs and signals into the former Soviet Union. Widely supported in western Europe, Kyrgyzstan has become the 54th contracting party to its Convention on Road Signs and Signals, leaving only Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign up in the ex-USSR.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened legal action against Denmark, France, Portugal and Sweden for failing to install continuous safety controls required by a European Union (EU) directive on ‘the control of high-activity sealed radioactive sources and orphan sources’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FISHING access deal allowing European Union (EU) fishermen to exploit Guinea-Bissau’s Atlantic fish stocks until June next year has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers. The agreement was negotiated to run from this June, and includes fishing rights for:

*Shrimps: Italy boats of up to 1,776 gross registered tonnes (GRT), Spain to 1,421 GRT, Portugal 1,066 GRT, and Greece 137 GRT;

*Finfish and cephalopods: Spain 3,143 GRT, Italy 786 GRT, and Greece 471 GRT;

*Tuna seiners: Spain 20, France 19, and Italy 1; and

*Surface longliners and pole-and-line vessels: Spain 21, France 5, and Portugal 4.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving towards supporting environment-friendly road transport, rather than dedicating resources to promoting public transport, a European Parliament debate organised by the Automobile and Society Forum, has heard. The European Commission is currently reviewing its 2001 transport white paper and its working papers have noted "disappointment" over the results of the EU’s pro-public transport policies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE COST to Britain’s exchequer of refusing to participate in the European Union’s legal agreement with Philip Morris over illicit cigarette trades has become clearer with the European Commission dividing up the spoils. PMI has promised to pay US$1 billion over 12 years to the European Commission and 10 European Union (EU) member states who have participated in the deal, with the cigarette giant already handing over US$325 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 450 million on upgrading European Union (EU) vineyard production during 2006-7, helping EU wine producers fend off New World competitors. The money will go on varietal conversion, relocating vineyards and improving vineyard management, although not routine replanting.…

BY LIZ HALL

SIX years ago, government representatives from nine South American countries gathered in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, to sign a document of great importance to those concerned with fighting money-laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF).

On December 8, 2000, representatives of the governments of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, signed the Founding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formally establishing GAFISUD, a regional body modelled on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDITERRANEAN countries face raising duties on fortified wines such as port and sherry under a proposal to increase minimum European Union (EU) excise duties by 31%. The European Commission wants to maintain the value they commanded when introduced in 1993.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MEDITERRANEAN countries face raising duties on fortified wines such as port and sherry under proposals to increase minimum European Union excise duties by 31%. Fortified wine tax would increase by 9 Euro cents in Greece and Cyprus on 70cl bottles; 8 cents in Malta; 3 cents in Portugal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared illegal changes to the European Union’s (EU) cotton subsidy system, which effectively decoupled aid from actual production. The ECJ has ruled that by ignoring the effect of reducing aid on ginning businesses and also failing to take labour costs into account when framing the new system, the European Commission breached the key EU principle of acting "proportionately" when faced with a problem.…