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Keith Nuthall
THE INDIAN government is threatening to impose trade penalties on the European Union, because of the latest WTO decision in the long running cotton-type bed linen dispute, where the organisation’s appellate body ruled that the EU had failed to impose anti-dumping duties fully in accordance with international law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made its formal offer at the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round to boost access to the European Union insurance market to non-EU players. However, following pressure from national European capitals, its services talks liberalisation package is hedged with a large number of exceptions protecting local interests.…

Keith Nuthall
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) wine and spirits rules of origin register talks chairman Eui-yong Chung, of South Korea, has released his draft proposal designed to end the long running negotiations. It tries to crystallise positions so a deal can be struck at the WTO TRIPs council, July 2-3.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has offered to ease the difficulties faced by personnel departments when recruiting specialists and top staff from non-European Union countries.

In talks for the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, Brussels says if its trading partners offer adequate concessions in return, it will improve access to a wide range of EU service sectors to overseas companies and individual professionals and qualified professionals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVEMENTS are to be made to Kabul international airport, Afghanistan, with a US$19.3 million World Bank credit. The funds will finance reconstruction of its runway and upgrade water and sanitation services. The money – part of an Emergency Transport Rehabilitation Project – will also improve air traffic control services, providing the airport with equipment to support safe air travel, such as communications and air traffic control networks identified as necessary by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is developing plans to set up a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which would coordinate efforts by European Union (EU) Member States to fight outbreaks of communicable viruses such as SARS.

In a speech to the European Parliament, EU health Commissioner David Byrne said that this would be “the most effective way to strengthen EU activities” against this disease and others such as TB.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is developing plans to set up a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which would coordinate efforts by European Union (EU) Member States to fight outbreaks of communicable viruses such as SARS.

In a speech to the European Parliament, EU health Commissioner David Byrne said that this would be “the most effective way to strengthen EU activities” against this disease and others such as TB.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WOOL is to be added to the list of products that can be protected by the European Union’s (EU) geographical indication legislation, agriculture ministers have agreed in Brussels. These laws safeguard traditional marketing descriptions for wool and woollen products based on geographical names such as Scotland, the Shetlands, Yorkshire, Wales, Witney, Otterburn etc.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union is facing growing opposition at the World Trade Organisation to its stance on geographical indications, where it refuses to grant protection to traditional regional names of drinks and food products from non-EU countries, unless their governments roughly copy Europe’s own rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS AMERICAN and British military forces secure control of Iraq from the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein using the latest military technology, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a cautionary report confirming for the first time that depleted uranium shells can and have contaminated drinking water.…