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BY MARK ROWE
TONGA’S venture into the world of shipping registries appears to have ended in the farce that many industry experts long predicted. The registry was closed earlier this year in the face of international criticism but Tonga now believes it has lost the money it made during the registry’s controversial two-year period.…

Keith Nuthall
EMPLOYERS will have to monitor changes to national workplace data protection regulations expected across the EU because of a wide-ranging and detailed public consultation launched by the European Commission.

Brussels has already concluded that there is a need to harmonise the widely divergent rules and practices amongst Member States, so legislation will inevitably be tabled.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A RULING by the European Court of First Instance today (Friday) has flatly rejected the analysis and judgments made by the European Commission about drinks packaging when it last year banned the proposed merger between the Tetra Laval group, world leader in carton packaging, and the French company Sidel, which designs and manufactures plastic bottles.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A GERMAN manufacturer of brewery equipment has joined with a Luxembourg beer brewer to commercialise a technique that they claim can save 55 per cent of the energy required for boiling wort, a major process in beer production.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
TOYOTA claims its latest concept car is the world’s best in terms of = fuel consumption and recycling technologies.

The carmaker’s Eco Spirit Cubic concept vehicle was on display for the = first time in the UK at the British Motor Show in October.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S biggest ice cream producer Russky Kholod will launch a factory in Moscow with a projected output of 2,000 metric tons per month in 2003. The company has -modestly – described the plant as “the most modern ice-cream production facility in the world.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set out its stall at the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural liberalisation talks, offering the US and other key trading partners the carrot of a 55 per cent cut in “trade distorting domestic farm support” subsidies, if they reciprocate with similar reductions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is consulting the EU fishing industry over a list of exported American marine products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent. The plan follows a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is consulting the EU fishing industry over a list of exported American marine products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent. The plan follows a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Health Organisation member governments have been meeting from October 14-25 to press ahead with the development of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The fifth session of the Inter-governmental Negotiating Body examined a draft created from discussions held over the past four years on the advertising, promotion, sales and smuggling of tobacco.…