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The investment to build the interconnector will amount to EUR2.8 billion, with the EIB set to contribute up to EUR400 million for the financing construction of the section within the European Union (EU).  Other financiers include the UK Infrastructure Bank, which will focus on the stretch within UK maritime and land territory, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).…

EUROPE’S dairy production and trade must not suffer from the implementation of the European Union (EU)’s farm to fork (F2F) plans (1), announced May 2020 and at the heart of the European Green Deal to “make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly,” dairy experts have told Dairy Industries International (DII).…

The European Association of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS) has attacked the UK government for extending until December 2024 an import quota of 260,000 tonnes for raw sugar, claiming this could disrupt the European sugar industry and market. “The UK’s approach is alarming, since it undermines existing concessions offered to sugar producers around the world,” said CEFS, notably European Union producers and those from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries who usually have some special access to EU markets (and formerly UK markets prior to Brexit).…

It would be surprising if as complex an intergovernmental programme as AML/CFT did not spark unintended consequences, but some AML/CFT experts fear that the global system designed and promoted by FATF has caused unwanted and damaging actions that cut across its stated goal – to fight and prevent money laundering.…

As controversy continues over the disconnect between the European Union (EU) animal livestock stunning rules and halal slaughtering requirements, the Netherlands’ Muslim official representative organisation has designed a new halal standard that aims to create a system that respects both religious rules and animal welfare needs.…

Financial professionals involved in AML/CFT are facing a growing set of professional, regulatory and technical pressures, from top AMLO managers to the front-facing staff onboarding customers, and backroom technical staff screening transactions. AML/CFT regulations in most jurisdictions are becoming increasingly broad and detailed, with implementation and enforcement ramping up.…

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The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a reassessment of the model of relying on one or two outsourcing locations. It has demonstrated that when there is a major disruption caused by an emergency as serious as a pandemic, shipping and industrial processing can be disrupted.…

A disconnect is growing between some European jurisdictions and halal certification systems over the stunning of livestock, which has the potential to stymie the growth of halal meat production.

Since last December (2020), European Union member states have had a freer hand to impose stunning requirements, even on proponents of religious slaughter, including kosher as well as halal production, because of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision.…

While the estimation of sources of laundered money is made imprecise by its inherent covert nature, the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) has estimated that the amount of criminal proceeds processed annually is 2%-5% of global GDP, or USD800 billion to USD2 trillion.…

European and US interest in carbon capture and storage/sequestration (CCS) and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) is continuing to surge as governments make ever more ambitious climate change commitments.

In tandem with improvements in technology mean capturing carbon dioxide (CO₂) emitted from industrial processes, power generation or directly from the air, and either storing or using it, CCS/CCUS is no longer viewed as a marginal solution with limited applications. …