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TOBACCO DIRECTIVE DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CIGARETTE packets sold in the European Union could be graced with gory medical images designed to shock smokers into quitting, as a result of a compromise deal struck between the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament over the final form of the new European tobacco directive.…
OECD - LIBERALISATION
Keith Nuthall
A REPORT from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) calling for liberalisation is a little like a report from the Pope suggesting more prayer, but the world’s premier international think tank has refined its arguments regarding utilities in a recent formal recommendation to its member governments.…
EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
THE SUPPLY and quality of water services and their environmental management have been near the top of the research agendas of institutions of the European Union this year, with the European Commission’s directorate generals (DG) for research and the environment being particularly active.…
PRODUCT REVIEW
BY MONICA DOBIE
International Chamber of Commerce
Anti-Counterfeiting Technology Guide
Pluses: The catalogue is a well-written comprehensive guide, which offers a general overview of technologies. It offers a thorough listing of manufacturing and suppliers of the products.
Minuses: Smaller companies may feel left out because much of the equipment would be better suited for the needs of large brand-owning companies with big budgets.…
NEW WORLD WINES
BY MONICA DOBIE
EUROPE, in wine terms, has pedigree. It is, after all, the home of the longest established commercial wine-making tradition. But these days, its primacy is being challenged by colonial upstarts, in the shape of New World vineyards, and guess what; the new kids on the block seem to be ganging up on the oldsters.…
BOLTON PIECE - PRINT VERSION
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?
Let me make it easy for you.
Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…
WORKING TIME LATEST
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXEMPTION from European working time regulations for self-employed drivers, could last a lot longer than the three years that was agreed in the informal deal struck in the EU Council of Ministers last year.
Looking at the detail of the amended directive that has now been accepted formally by the Council, the three-year deadline only gives the European Commission the right to propose an end to the exemption.…
BAMFIELD PIECE
Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.
Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…
BOLTON PIECE - PRINT VERSION
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?
Let me make it easy for you.
Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…