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CHINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has agreed to stop its pharmaceutical manufacturers from copying medicines patented in Austria, Finland and Sweden, extending ‘administrative protection’ enjoyed by the rest of the European Union to these countries.
Beijing has been refusing to grant these rights – which are a form of patent protection – because when it agreed to stop its citizens copying European Union patented pharmaceuticals, neither Austria, Sweden nor Finland were EU members.…
FRANCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening France with legal action at the European Court of Justice over its alleged failure to recognise pharmacist diplomas from other EU Member States. Under European law, a special alternative recognition procedure is in place for Member States to assess and, where necessary, recognise some pharmacist diplomas whuch do not meet minimum training requirements under EU Directive 85/433/EEC.…
MILAN AIRPORTS
Keith Nuthall
AN END to the row over slot distribution in Milan’s two international airports may be in sight, although European Commission officials have told Airports International that they are still waiting for details of an Italian government plan so that they can formally and finally settle the dispute.…
SOUTH KOREA
Keith Nuthall
THE FIRST customs-free zone in South Korea is to be launched at New Inchon International Airport, the country’s Ministry of Construction and Transportation has announced. It is part of a plan to develop the airport as a distribution hub for east Asia.…
LEATHER HANDBAGS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has reversed a decision that led to a German company paying DM 1.45 million in anti-dumping duties on imported leather handbags from China, which it should never have incurred and which it can now reclaim.…
CALCUTTA COMPLEX
BY SWINEETHA WICKRAMANAYAKE
CONTROVERSY is holding up the development of a 1,000 acre industrial estate devoted to tanning in the Indian city of Calcutta, with industry sources airing concerns that the site’s wetland geography might not provide firm enough foundations for the their heavy equipment to be installed.…
OIE SCRAPIE/BSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has warned that atypical cases of BSE and scrapie have been discovered in France and specialists are conducting follow-up studies. The six unusual BSE cases and three scrapie cases were discovered in seven départements across the country during routine checks by the French Agency for Food Safety.…
EU FOOD SAFETY RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched three projects, drawing Euro 43 million from its Sixth Framework Programme for research developing food safety expertise. They are ‘Safe Foods’ on risk analysis in food safety; ‘NuGO’ on creating a network of specialists in genomics, nutrition and health; and ‘Welfare Quality’ on animal welfare in food production.…
LIE DETECTION
Keith Nuthall
A SOFTWARE manufacturer has produced a lie detector system that it claims enables companies to screen telephone conversations and pick out signs of stress, confusion or excitement that can pinpoint when a lie is being told. Israel based company Trustech Innovative Technologies Ltd developed interrogation techniques used in the Middle East to create its product Truster Pro, which is available worldwide.…
DIGITAL COPYRIGHT
Keith Nuthall
BUSINESSES have been warned that they could find themselves in a legal labyrinth when trying to fight a case stopping a copyright thief from exploiting their confidential documents, designs, music, artwork, fiction, or any other digital material by illegally reproduced and circulated it via the Internet.…