AUSTRALIAN PANEL REITERATES CALL FOR NATIONAL POWERS A May 8 report from Australia’s Productivity Commission urges a greater role for national regulators in product safety.

EU OFFICIAL POINTS TO CHANGING VIEW OF FAKES BY CHINA European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy May 13 suggested that while about 80% of counterfeit goods found on the EU market come from China, officials in that nation “are beginning to see the potential damage this can do to their development.”