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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL community is expected to make solid progress towards the creation of a United Nations Convention against Corruption, during the ongoing third meeting of the ad hoc committee established to draft the treaty.

This session, which lasts until October 11 will especially focus on corruption within the private sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL questionnaire on container transport insurance has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on liability for multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements, (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport operations involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW laboratory tasked with fostering innovative solutions for nuclear waste management has been inaugurated at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Its Institute for Transuranium Elements, in Karlsruhe, Germany, has opened a Euro 10 million Minor Actinide Laboratory, which will manufacture and characterize the most suitable materials for the transmutation of long-lived toxic elements created by the nuclear industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL questionnaire on container transport insurance has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on liability for multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements, (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport operations involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY MARK ROWE
ENVIRONMENTAL organisations and an American local authority have issued a lawsuit against the US government for its contribution to global warming, a move that may have important repercussions for the insurance industry.

A lawsuit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco claims that two American export credit agencies illegally provided US$32billion in financing for oil fields, pipelines and coal-fired power plants over the past 10 years without assessing their contribution to global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SIMPLIFICATION of European Union life insurance legislation has been approved by the European Parliament and will now come into force, rolling the many EU rules and regulations affecting the industry into one single code.

Part of an ongoing effort to streamline Brussels’ often baffling and Byzantine strands of legislation, MEP’s agreed with ministers to delay final approval of a united life directive, so that recent changes on solvency margins could be incorporated.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN publishers are licking their wounds after a summer ill spent with paperwork, lawyers fees and frustration because of the crash of Jack Stoddart’s General Publishing Co. Ltd. and its book distribution arm, General Distribution Services Ltd. (GDS), which filed for voluntary bankruptcy last month at an Ontario court.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has joined forces with Australia, Argentina, Canada, New Zealand and other large drinks exporters, in proposing that a register of geography-linked names of wines and spirits – now being discussed at the World Trade Organisation – should be voluntary, carrying little legal weight.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SMART cards for health are not exactly a novelty but the Prevencard to be launched in the UK next year uses some particularly smart technology.

Prevencard, which is being marketed by the Spanish company Grupo Prevencard International, is a commercial application of security research carried out under the EU’s 5th Framework Programme for research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RICHES that can be made from the illegal ivory trade are well known, but what of illicit imports and exports of rare flowers. Shipping protected orchids to Europe, Japan and north America can make criminals a lot of money.…