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CHEMICAL REGULATION DILEMMA FOR NEW UK GOVERNMENT
When the UK left the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2021, it also left the EU’s comprehensive REACH chemical control system, which was formally replaced by a UK REACH system. This mirrored EU REACH, grandfathering existing registrations and restrictions to the national system, although GB companies lost access to EU databases run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).…
BREXIT CHALLENGES BRITISH LAW ENFORCEMENT FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD – BUT UK CAN MITIGATE DIFFICULTIES
The UK’s law enforcement and prosecuting authorities have been striving to mitigate the loss of automatic collaborative relationships with European Union (EU) member states, following Brexit. Keith Nuthall reports
A key priority of the talks forging the 2020 EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), (1) which underpinned Britain’s full Brexit form the EU on January 1, 2021, was salvaging the close relationship between UK and EU police and prosecutors.…
EU MINISTERS AGREE MEMBER STATES MUST DO THEIR PART IN FIGHTING FARM FRAUD
The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has told its member states that it expects their governments to actively combat fraud in spending under the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). That this is an ongoing problem was highlighted in a report for the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors issued in July (1).…
EU GUIDANCE ON PPP AIMS AT MORE EFFECTIVE MONEY LAUNDERING PREVENTION
Public-private partnerships (PPP) in the anti-money laundering domain are “flourishing” across the European Union (EU) but “there is no commonly agreed definition” of how these should operate, notes new European Commission guidance. A staff working document (1) from the EU executive “does not aim to harmonise the concept of public-private partnerships”, rather the “non-binding” guidance examines the way PPPs function in the EU, with a series of case studies.…
CRAFT BREWERS INCREASE SALES OF DIVERSE BEERS IN NORDIC AND BALTIC MARKETS
The Nordic and Baltic beer markets are increasingly diverse, with craft beer sales growing faster than those for standard beers across the region, with only Lithuania bucking the trend. According to UK-based market researcher GlobalData (which owns Just Drinks), sales of craft beers Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia and Latvia have all seen significant sales increases over the past five years with many exhibiting double-digit growth.…
AML REPORTERS MUST BE OPEN TO LEARN WHEN CHOSING AN IT STRATEGY
With AML/CFT technology becoming ever more powerful and sophisticated, such as the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to process and analyse data, the pressure on AML-obliged bodies to update their information AML/CFT technology (IT) systems is growing.…
CHINA’S INFANT FORMULA PRODUCERS STRENGTHEN POSITION ON DOMESTIC MARKET AS AVERAGE WEALTH GROWS
The Chinese infant formula industry will hit a regulatory milestone in February (2023) with the introduction of new national standards first published last year (2021) by the country’s National Health Commission. These standards, including GB10765-2021 (1) promise to make labelling “more scientific”, thus improving quality of products.…
UK-GERMANY NEUCONNECT INTERCONNECTOR COULD PROVIDE MODEL FOR CHEAP CLEAN ENERGY DISTRIBUTION
In late-July, the European Investment Bank (EIB) agreed on the financing structure of NeuConnect, the first ever energy link connecting Germany and the United Kingdom, two of the largest electricity markets in Europe. 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).…
UK-GERMANY NEUCONNECT INTERCONNECTOR COULD PROVIDE MODEL FOR CHEAP CLEAN ENERGY DISTRIBUTION
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).…
TEMPORARY SUPPORT MEASURES ESSENTIAL TO HELP TEXTILE COMPANIES SURVIVE ENERGY CRISIS
TEXTILE companies will face deindustrialisation, relocation outside Europe and bankruptcy if they do not receive aid, including tax breaks or a gas price cap to help them deal with rising energy costs, European textile companies and governments have told WTiN.
The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex on September 16 in a statement also signed by Eurocoton (the European Federation of the Cotton and Allied Textiles Industries), CIRFS (the European Man-Made Fibres Association), ETSA (the European Textile Services Association) and EDANA, representing non-wovens producers, welcomed European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement of initiatives aimed to tackle the energy crisis.…