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EU/WTO REGULATORY ROUND UP – MAJOR EU RESEARCH FUNDING MADE AVAILABLE FOR FOOD AND DRINK INNOVATION



FOOD and drinks companies from across the European Union (EU) are now able to apply for research funding from the European Union’s (EU) Horizon Europe programme, which has a budget of around EUR95.5 billion. This spending will last until 2027, with companies generally needing to form international consortia focused on food, ingredients and packaging projects to secure funding.…

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EU COUNTRIES FAILING TO COMPLY WITH PUBLIC UBO REGISTER RULES



Long after the January 10, 2020, deadline set by the European Union’s (EU) 5th anti-money laundering directive (5AMLD) (1) for member states to establish public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers, a Transparency International (TI) report (2) has alleged widespread non-compliance.…

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CORRUPTION IN ALL EU COUNTRIES, SAYS TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL



Corruption increased in 2020 across the 27 European Union (EU) countries according to 32% of participants in Transparency International’s latest survey of over 40,000 people, the ‘Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – European Union 2021’ (1). As regards other respondents, 44% saw no change and only 16% a fall, year-on-year.…

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ROBOTICS POSE TOUGH CHOICES FOR TEXTILE SECTOR BUT ALSO OFFER MAJOR PRODUCTIVITY DIVIDENDS



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ROBOTICS are not new to the textile and clothing sector, and have driven productivity improvements for more than a decade. But these technologies are becoming increasingly more adaptable and more autonomous, offering the many stages in the textile and clothing and distribution chain the potential to increase margin.…

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EVER GIVEN STRANDING WILL CAUSE MAJOR LOGISTICS DISRUPTION, DESPITE SHIP BEING FREED, SAY EXPERTS



The European garment sector has been growing uneasy about how the six-day stranding of the 400-metre-long cargo ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal will affect its supply chain. It has also been assessing the lessons for future contingency plans regarding such cargo transport pinch-points.…

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COVID-19 TOBACCO SMUGGLING AND COUNTERFEITING IS BOON FOR ORGANISED CRIME



 

Covid-19 has reshaped commercial crime, and one lucrative offence taking a real turn for the worse is tobacco smuggling and counterfeiting. Keith Nuthall reports.

 

The Covid-19 pandemic has depressed incomes worldwide and forced lower income smokers to look for cheap smokes, which has included counterfeits or smuggled goods.…

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FLOATING WIND POWER RAMPS-UP AS DEVELOPER PONDER REDUCING COSTS



Oil companies decarbonising their portfolios are getting out their cheque books for floating offshore wind projects.

Bottom-fixed offshore wind farms familiar in some places worldwide are generally limited to water no more than about 60 metres deep. Beyond that, it becomes economically unfeasible to connect the increasingly large turbine assemblies to the seafloor by either monopile or jacket foundations.…

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COVID-19 TOBACCO SMUGGLING AND COUNTERFEITING IS BOON FOR ORGANISED CRIME



 

There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled the black-market trade in illicit and smuggled licit tobacco products. The disease has depressed income and forced lower income smokers to look for cheap smokes, which has included counterfeits or smuggled goods.…

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COVID-19 PANDEMIC’S ECOMMERCE BOOM WILL PUSH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO USE MORE BIG DATA ANALYSIS TO FIGHT FRAUD



The surge in ecommerce in the past year driven by the Covid-19 pandemic will push financial institutions and commercial traders to use more big data analysis, maybe utilising artificial intelligence (AI), to identify anomalous behaviour, say fraud analysts.

International payments company Worldpay (part of the FIS Group, based in Florida, USA, since 2019) valued global online spending at USD4.6 trillion last year, up 19% on the previous annual figures – the highest growth in the past five years.…

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EU BUILDS MORE ANTI-FRAUD INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY AS FINANCIAL CRIME THREAT REMAINS



 

IMPORTANT building blocks of anti-fraud regulatory and law enforcement policies and programmes for the European Union (EU) have been introduced in the past two months, as the EU continues to grapple with endemically high levels of financial crime and corruption.…

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