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TERRORISM UPDATE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LONG-TERM European Union proposals for streamlined cross-border arrest warrants, that would enable prosecutors to demand the swift handover of fraud and other criminal suspects, are to be fast-tracked as a result of the terrorist disasters in the USA.…
DIAMOND CRIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADA’S Northwest Territories new found wealth in the diamond industry has fuelled concern amongst authorities in the region, as well as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). They fear that organised crime may be on an upswing as a result of an influx of money and people that the region has not seen since the Yukon gold rush of the Nineteenth Century.…
COURT OF AUDITORS
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors has criticised three controls operated by the European Commission and EU Member States, which are supposed to prevent fraud and mismanagement frittering away Brussels’ budgets.
It has strongly criticised checks to ensure that agricultural products that attract EU export refunds are actually released onto non-EU markets.…
CHINA WTO
BY ALAN OSBORN
AFTER 15 years of negotiations, China has reached agreement on the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation, thereby opening the way for British accountancy firms to set up shop in the world’s most populous market.…
AVON ACCOUNTANTS
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
DING Dong! Avon calling!
Traditionally, this familiar greeting of the faithful cosmetic lady would have women riffling through their mini catalogues and choosing cherry red lipstick and skin firming creams but all that is about to change.…
CHINA WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH and other developed country exporters will be able to take advantage of lower tariffs and abolished restrictive import quotas in the vast markets of China in future, because of the long awaited decision to admit the planet’s fifth largest trading nation to the World Trade Organisation.…
SALMON FISHING
BY KATE REW
AN ESTIMATED 700,000 farmed salmon in Maine have been killed since March this year in a bid to control the spread of a deadly fish virus, infectious salmon anaemia (ISA). It is the first time that the disease has been discovered in US salmon farms although it has already affected both the European and Canadian fisheries.…
SHELLFISH POLLUTION
KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL pressure is being brought to bear on the Irish government to force it to prepare anti-pollution programmes for shellfish waters, under the EU Shellfish Water Directive. The European Commission is threatening Dublin with possible legal action at the European Court of Justice, if it does not by the end of this month, (September), advise it of a plan to implement the directive.…
CHINA WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA is to reserve the right to maintain its state tobacco monopoly under the agreements that it has struck to secure World Trade Organisation membership, which has been approved after 15 years of often intense negotiations.
Tobacco is one of only a limited number of sectors, where China has insisted on maintaining exclusive state trading controls, other industries include cereals, fuels and minerals.…
CHINA WTO EXTENDED REWRITE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA is to reserve the right to maintain its state tobacco distribution monopoly under the agreements that it has struck to secure World Trade Organisation membership, which has been approved after 15 years of often intense negotiations.
Tobacco is one of only a limited number of sectors, where China has insisted on maintaining exclusive state trading controls, other industries include cereals, fuels and minerals.…