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By Keith Nuthall

Britain’s Open University has drawn on international commercial talent to advise its managers on how to develop its business school. The country’s first virtual higher education institution, which pioneered the use of televised lectures and correspondence courses, is hoping a panel of experts will highlight opportunities for growth that would otherwise be missed.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus and Beirut, and HELENA FLUSFELDER, in Jerusalem

INTRODUCTION AND THE GULF

THE DENIM sector in the Middle East is as diverse as it is fragmented, with strong demand in the Gulf and Israel for major brand names and the latest trends, while in the less economically developed parts of the Levant international brands are of less importance than style.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BANNING of all imports and exports of mercury in and out of the European Union (EU) has been supported by the European Parliament’s environment committee. And in tabling amendments introducing a ban by December 2010 through a proposed EU regulation on mercury by December 2010, the committee is on a collision course with the EU Council of Ministers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AFTER years of resistance from France, Italy and other European Union (EU) member states favouring privacy on a range of issues, all recipients of EU agricultural and rural development subsidies will be published from April 30, 2009. Under a new European Commission rule, the full name, municipality and, where available, postal code of recipients will be published, said the Commission, in "clear, harmonised, nationally-managed websites with a search tool".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to new Canadian cheese production rules is now increasingly likely, with the European Union (EU), the United States and New Zealand formally expressing dismay at a WTO agriculture committee meeting. Speaking today (18-3) in Geneva, New Zealand diplomats claimed Canada’s new "compositional standards" for cheese – which enter into force on December 13 – defy global Codex Alimentarius guidelines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round maybe drawing towards a close, the cosmetics, soap and perfumery industries might start considering that a final deal may lead to the elimination of most import duties on their products, worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SLOVENIAN government has tabled compromise proposals to break the current political logjam at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over gas supply unbundling. As current EU president, Slovenia has suggested for instance that some joint ownership of energy producing and transmission utilities could occur if there were "additional safeguards" preventing conflicts of interest, and guaranteeing the "structural independence of decision making" by distribution operators.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round maybe drawing towards a close, the plastics industry might start considering that a final deal may lead to the elimination of most import duties on its products worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has ruled that United States anti-dumping duties on shrimp exports from Thailand break WTO fair trade rules and will have to be amended or scrapped.

ENDS…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been angered by the United States has been demanding additional information on air passengers flying to American airports, beyond the existing agreement between the European Union (EU) and the USA. And furthermore, the US has been making such demands through bilateral supplementary agreements with EU member states, notably with the Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia, while deals with Lithuania, Hungary and Slovakia are under discussion.…