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BY KEITH NUTHALL

MORE than 30% of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeits of global brands, a new European Commission intellectual property survey says. Businesses, industrial federations and diplomatic missions stressed the difficulty of preventing such offences through legal action.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DESIGNERS of new coal-fired power stations are being urged to plan plants that are able to bolt-on carbon capture systems when these become widely available. The call has been made by the European Union (EU) export panel, the Fossil Fuels Forum, which is keen to secure EU energy supplies for the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is moving towards supporting environment-friendly road transport, rather than dedicating resources to promoting public transport, a European Parliament debate organised by the Automobile and Society Forum, has heard. The European Commission is currently reviewing its 2001 transport white paper and its working papers have noted "disappointment" over the results of the EU’s pro-public transport policies.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

AFTER 9/11, America positioned itself at the centre of the international crackdown on money laundering and terrorist financing, and its legal response has been well documented in the Money Laundering Bulletin. But what of its federal police and intelligence agencies?…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

"REFINERY Process Outsourcing" or simply RPO is an exciting buzzword in the otherwise hard-pressed Indian petroleum industry, as the term represents newly found and highly profitable venture of operating refineries to fulfil surging international demand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A UNITED Nations unit is coordinating the introduction of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) accrual systems across all agencies of the global body, helping auditors crack down on fraud. The UN Task Force on Accounting Standards is overseeing the development of implementation timetables, which must see all UN agencies and branches adopting IPSAS by January 2010, except for peacekeeping operations – by July 2010.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission president José Manuel Barroso has claimed the EIT could be an excellent vehicle for solving the problems posed by climate change. He told a press conference today in Brussels that this was the "most important global challenge of our times" and he thought — and hoped — the EIT would make a great contribution to solving it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RICH country tax authority bosses have banded together to fight international tax avoidance caused by the abuse of increasingly liberal capital movement and trading laws. Representatives from more than 30 countries, at a Seoul meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s forum on tax administration, agreed to conduct a joint study by 2007 into how accountants, lawyers and tax advisors were promoting illegal tax evasion and "unacceptable tax minimisation arrangements".…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

THE LEAGUE of European Research Universities (LERU) has attacked the publication on Wednesday (18-10) of plans to allow a European Institute of Technology (EIT) to issue degrees and suck money from the European Union’s (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

AN AMBITIOUS and comprehensive six-year plan for saving energy throughout the 25 (soon to be 27) EU member states has been welcomed by the association of European electricity suppliers Eurelectric, which said it "contains some good solid proposals."…