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BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT air traffic management (ATM) is flawed in many ways; one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago.

Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSP’s) have a responsibility to ensure that the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BELGIUM has been told by the European Commission to change its “discriminatory” laws covering inheritance and registration taxes or face legal action. Belgian law says that non-profit associations, mutual societies, trade unions and international scientific associations must be established in Belgium to qualify for tax relief on gifts or legacies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s legal affairs committee has proposed amendments to the European Commission’s latest proposed tobacco advertising directive, liberalising its effect. MEPs want to limit the directive to cases with ‘significant trans-border effects’ and to permit advertising indirectly related to tobacco.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE WORLD Bank has warned Indonesia that foreign donors may further reduce their environmental grants to the country in response to the government’s recent decision to allow several mining firms to operate in protected forests. “We can’t give our funds to improve environmental conditions where there is a high risk of not succeeding,” said Kathy MacKinnon, the World Bank’s senior biodiversity specialist.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECRETARIAT for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has released a report advising nurseries and customs officers about the world’s illegal trade in wild rare plants.

Said the CITES report: “This illegal trade can involve trade without documents and documents issued for different specimens and, very frequently, can involve fraudulent claims of artificial propagation that can be difficult for the non-specialist to detect.”…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE FINANCIAL framework of state regulated air traffic management is often perceived by the more commercially orientated air transport industry as inflexible and driven by supply rather than demand. This perception remains despite the widespread corporatisation of ANSPs, (air navigation service providers), which has pulled them away from the firm embrace of government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has produced a Tobacco Atlas, produced with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA. It provides statistics such as the differences between countries and genders regarding consumption, the conduct of the tobacco companies, investments by tobacco industry, the costs of tobacco use, illicit trade and litigation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is facing a mass attack on its sugar export subsidies at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). They have been formally challenged by both Australia and Brazil, with the Ivory Coast, Congo, Madagascar, Columbia, Canada, Kenya, Barbados, India, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Jamaica, Swaziland, Fiji, Guyana and Mauritius expected to line up behind them in support.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTEMPT by Chile to maintain domestic sugar prices by using variable import duties has been declared contrary to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules by the appellate body of the WTO disputes procedure. Chile’s price band system was challenged at the WTO by Argentina, with the support of both the US and the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PERUVIAN fishermen will almost certainly now be allowed to market their sardine catches in the European Union as sardines, after the appellate body of the World Trade Organisation rejected an EU appeal against an earlier WTO ruling backing Peru’s case.…