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Keith Nuthall
A REPORT published at the ongoing meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has asked delegates to consider whether the world should be protected by a global cybercrime convention.

Its aim would be to outlaw Internet offences in every UN member country, denying hackers and virus designers legal safe havens.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REVIEW of the Common Fisheries Policy is likely to create the largest overhaul in European Union fishing policy in years, matching the crisis in stock levels in European waters. At its heart is the integration of environmental and conservation concerns into the organisation of the EU fishing market, a principle that – judging by conclusions agreed by the Council of Ministers – will have significant consequences when changes are put in place next year.…

KEITH NUTHALL
ITALIAN textile houses have welcomed US Congress’ adoption of reforms to America’s rules of origin for textile products, which they claimed discriminated against European Union exports and broke World Trade Organisation rules.

When implementing the Uruguay Round GATT agreement, the United States had passed a law that insisted that cotton, silk and man-made fibres fabrics entering the EU at loom state to be dyed and printed, no longer qualified as EU products when they were exported.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN government advisory group has called for increased numbers of seals to be hunted, to help recovering Atlantic fish stocks, which are estimated to be at 10 per cent of what they were 20 years ago.

The Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) said that the seal population has over-expanded and that its numbers must be controlled.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has voiced “disappointment and concern” at a decision by the US Department of Commerce to impose provisional countervailing duties on imports of low enriched uranium from the EU.

European Commission officials said that the case concerned uranium that had been processed for use in electricity generation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT published at the ongoing meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has proposed a series of short term measures that can be taken to strengthen international efforts to fight IT-related and cybercrime.…

Keith Nuthall
DEVELOPING countries that export textiles and clothing, have rejectred calls by their rich trading partners, that they should open their domestic markets in return for further import concessions being offered by developed countries.

Meeting in Guatemala, the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau’s Council of Representatives “categorically rejected” bids by the European Union and the United States “to demand additional market access concessions from developing countries as a condition to fully comply with their obligations under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing of the World Trade Organization.”…

BY MIKE FOX
AZURIX, the troubled water subsidiary of the giant energy company Enron, has confirmed that it would like to sell its north American water interests.

Azurix has a company policy of not commenting on its plans for acquisitions or divestments, but the potential sale of its north American subsidiary was revealed when it put in a bid to develop a US$150million water treatment plant that would eventually form part of a US$2billion distribution system in Houston Texas, home to the corporate headquarters of both companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REGULATORY clearance has been granted by the European Commission for the acquisition of Unilever’s European Culinary Brands Businesses by Campbell Soup Co. of the United States. The sale fulfils commitments given by Unilever last year to obtain European Union clearance for its purchase of Bestfoods.…

BY MONICA DOBIE AND KEITH NUTHALL
DAIMLER Chrysler Canada and Ford Canada have been trying to persuade the Canadian federal government to replace the now defunct 1965 Canada/United States auto pact with a system of assistance that would not be so open to a challenge at the World Trade Organisation.…