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BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union funded equipment has been unveiled at a food safety laboratory in Serbia, the first of 31 centres to be modernised via a Euro 14 million funding scheme. The Kraljevo Veterinary Institute’s new kit will test animal and animal product samples for infections, part of a nationwide system ensuring meat safety and detecting animal disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union funded equipment has been unveiled at a food safety laboratory in Serbia, the first of 31 centres to be modernised via a Euro 14 million funding scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union funded equipment has been unveiled at a food safety laboratory in Serbia, the first of 31 centres to be modernised via a Euro 14 million funding scheme. The Kraljevo Veterinary Institute’s new kit will test animal and animal product samples for infections, part of a nationwide system ensuring meat safety and detecting animal disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.

THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union funded equipment has been unveiled at a food safety laboratory in Serbia, the first of 31 centres to be modernised via a Euro 14 million funding scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has become the latest international financing institution to announce a loan to Serbia’s power utility Elektropriveda Srbije. It is lending Euro 22 million to modernise the utility’s existing power control system. The move follows the announcement of a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan last month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 60 million to Serbia’s state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) to help rehabilitate the country’s coal mining sector. The 15-year loan is aimed at enabling the company to modernise its coal production and doubling to 12 million tonnes the amount of lignite extracted annually from the Tamnava West mine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations (UN) Convention against Transnational Organised Crime has come into force, imposing a duty on ratifying countries to outlaw membership of an organised criminal group, which it defines legally. So far, said the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 48 countries have ratified it, including Monaco, Nigeria, Serbia & Montenegro, Peru, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Philippines, Tajikistan, Albania, France, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, China, Norway and Afghanistan.…

Keith Nuthall
A TRAINING centre for tax officials in Serbia has been opened, part of a Euro 13.4 million European Union-funded overhaul of the Serb inland revenue system. The centre – in Novi Sad – will train 1,000 officials over the next 15 months and will be the first of four such centres to be opened, (also in Niš, Kragujevac and Belgrade).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 60 million to Serbia’s state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) to enable it to modernise its fuel (coal) production and upgrade its company’s communications network to a digital system.…