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BY ALAN OSBORN
ON July 31 this year the European Union’s (EU) Tobacco Advertising Directive came into effect, making it illegal to advertise tobacco products in the print media, radio and over the Internet within the EU. Also banned was tobacco sponsorship of cross-border cultural and sporting events.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced comprehensive plans to simplify or abolish 1,400 European Union (EU) rules on a wide range of topics – from company law to the customs code. Part of a major overhaul of EU legislation to make European laws more user-friendly, EU industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen said: “This will have a positive effect on the competitiveness of our economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH Coatings Federation (BCF) has called on November’s plenary session of the European Parliament to reverse changes proposed this week to the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, making life tougher for the printing industry. Moria McMillan, Chief Executive Officer, joined other EU business leaders in branding amendments passed by the EP environment committee as a “reversal of commonsense”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A REPORT issued this summer by the world’s top anti money laundering body, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has highlighted the peculiarities of the insurance industry as a vehicle for money laundering. The FATF’s “Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Typologies 2004-5” analysed 94 reported cases of money laundering involving the insurance industry between 1999 and 2003.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
STANDFIRST

AMERICA’S post 9/11 AML legislation does not only affect the formal banking sector, it controls other savings and investment institutions too, and in different ways. Alan Osborn reports.

MUTUAL FUNDS

ALTHOUGH there have been some complaints, by and large America’s mutual funds have accepted with reasonable grace the anti money laundering legislation brought in by the US government since the September 11 attacks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to simplify European Union (EU) rules on a range of nuclear topics, part of a major overhaul of EU legislation that has been unveiled by the current Commission. In a bid to make European laws more user-friendly, Brussels has said it will:

*Recast 10 directives, decisions and recommendations on nuclear safety into one directive on “the protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has acted to simplify the approval of ‘intelligent’ adaptive front-lighting systems (AFS) that boost illumination for drivers, while cutting the risk of glare for fellow motorists. It is proposing that manufacturers should bypass existing European Union (EU) complicated approval procedures for new technologies, by writing a draft United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) technical regulation for this kit into EU type-approval rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added a range of meat products to the scope of a directive that would limit the use of certain additives in food. In amendments at first reading, that will require support from European Union (EU) ministers to become law, MEPs said a number of traditionally cured meat products from Spain, Germany and eastern European countries should be subject to sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate residue limits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced comprehensive plans to simplify or abolish 1,400 European Union (EU) rules on a wide range of topics – from health and safety, to company law. Part of a major overhaul of EU legislation to make European laws more user-friendly, EU industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen said: “This will have a positive effect on the competitiveness of our economy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to rewrite the European Union’s (EU) environmental health law book, in a comprehensive effort to simplify existing EU legislation across the board. Aiming to ease the impact of often complex and baffling regulations on European local government and industry, Brussels has embarked on a three-year programme to scrap obsolete legislation, rewrite over-complex laws and combine overlapping directives and regulations.…