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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN law is to guarantee the rights of European Union (EU) citizens to access environmental information, participate in environmental decision-making and grant them the right to bring environmental violations to courts, if EU ministers agree a proposal from the European Commission.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo
THE UNITED States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will provide technical assistance to Sri Lanka so it can comply with the rules of the US Container Security Initiative. The agency has asked US company Aerospace

Services International Inc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with the United States and has moved to impose retaliatory duties on a wide range of US meat industry exports over a row about American foreign sales corporations, which have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with the United States and has moved to impose retaliatory duties on US shrimp and prawn (in airtight containers) and tuna exports over a row about American foreign sales corporations, which have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) drinks importers are girding themselves for the imposition of heavy duties on a range of United States fruit juice exports, after the World Trade Organisation authorised EU retaliation to American protection of its steel industry, erected in breach of global trade laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has lost patience with the United States and has moved to impose retaliatory duties on US shrimp and prawn (in airtight containers) and tuna exports over a row about American foreign sales corporations, which have been deemed illegal by the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.

THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHOULD international organisations be held liable when they fail to achieve tasks set out in their formal objectives? The question has been posed by the United Nations’ (UN) International Law Commission and is currently being debated at the UN general assembly’s legal committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has come into force. The 1998 protocol focuses on 16 substances: 11 pesticides, 2 industrial chemicals and 3 by-products/contaminants and tells signatory countries to eliminate any discharges, emissions and losses of these POPs, which are thought to cause birth defects and reduce male sperm counts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been negotiated between the European Commission and the United States that should create common pre-shipment clearance shipments for goods shipped between the European Union (EU) and the US. If EU ministers agree, it would tell European and American exporters to provide sufficient information about goods to allow “sophisticated targeting” of security checks, prior to shipping.…