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Keith Nuthall
A BID to weaken the affect on accountants of the proposed new EU money laundering directive has failed in the European Parliament.

MEP’s rejected proposals from the parliament’s justice and home affairs committee to scrap moves to extend the duty of auditors, tax advisors and external accountants acting for a third party, to comply with its rules on identification of clients, record keeping and the notification of suspicious transactions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a pre-requisite of successful policy making that public authorities need to have an accurate picture of the status quo, and also an effective way of measuring the results of reforms. Maybe nowhere is this truer than with the complex subject of sustainable agriculture and rural development.…

BY KATE REW
S500 Mercedes ‘Guard’

Pluses: Unlike competitors it’s built from outset as armoured car – although

it doesn’t look like one.

Minuses: Are you really in enough danger to justify spending Pounds 130,000, (US$150K in the US), on this when you could be spending it on a yacht?…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has agreed to allow Canadian ice-wine, the specialised dessert wine made from frozen grapes, to be sold within the EU, after a long battle to have the designation of recognised by Brussels was finally won.…

Keith Nuthall
AN APPEAL has been made at the United Nations, by the Global Environment Facility organisation, to private utilities and government organisations, asking them to invest in sustainable energy development in the world’s poorer countries

Mohamed El-Ashry, the GEF’s Chief Executive Officer was speaking at a ministerial meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.…

BY MIKE FOX
AZURIX, the troubled water subsidiary of the giant energy company Enron, has confirmed that it would like to sell its north American water interests.

Azurix has a company policy of not commenting on its plans for acquisitions or divestments, but the potential sale of its north American subsidiary was revealed when it put in a bid to develop a US$150million water treatment plant that would eventually form part of a US$2billion distribution system in Houston Texas, home to the corporate headquarters of both companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has released an anti-counterfeiting guide, describing the wide range of options that printing companies can take, when trying to protect products and packaging against counterfeiters.

These include overt and covert methods. The global business group’s guide also provides practical advice for companies who need to choose what type of technical protection they need to incorporate within packaging to make them less prone to copying.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SLEEMAN Breweries of Canada has announced that it has signed a five-year deal with South African Breweries, which allows for Sleeman to sell, market and distribute SAB’s Pilsner Urquell brand in Canada.

The agreement could help pave the way for Sleeman breaking into the US market, as the Canadians have been allowed to sit in on talks SAB are currently having with potential US partners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT release by the International Labour Organisation has claimed that EU hotel, catering and tourism workers earn on average 20 per cent below the European Union average for workers in other sectors. Together, the hotel, catering and tourist sectors produce 3-4 per cent of gross domestic product in most countries worldwide, according to the ILO, but most of their workers are unskilled, in part-time or low-wage jobs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MAYBE not all of us would know the difference if we got served

bootleg vodka instead of Smirnoff in a pub, but make no mistake – this is happening on a wide scale and it amounts to a rip-off that is cheating drinkers of millions of dollars a year.…