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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENT ministers of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have called on the body’s rich country members to redouble their efforts to separate economic growth from ecological degradation or miss established OECD environmental targets for 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) is developing a comparative database of member countries’ policies and practices regarding wages, working time, work organisation, accommodating life outside work and workplace conditions. The Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL) is creating analytical tools and technical advice to help improve standards in each of these areas.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has claimed it is making headway in chasing so-called “harmful” tax regimes from the world’s statute books, claiming 18 have been scrapped since the year 2000 and another 14 have been reformed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ADVOCATE General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recommended that bans imposed by France on the broadcast of alcoholic drinks advertising, especially those on hoardings at foreign international sports events, are legal under European Union (EU) law.…

BY MARK ROWE
Mention Albania and money and one is drawn back to the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as it emerged into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured in funds with an enthusiasm as remarkable as it was misguided.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of British Insurers (ABI) is pressing the UK Government to maintain its raised level of spending on flood defences, as it works towards its next public spending round announcement in the summer. Following the spate of disastrous floods in 2000, Whitehall in 2002 increased its annual spending on the problem by Pounds 150 million.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Office for Standardisation (ISO) is promoting free and downloadable guidance kits for auditors checking whether their clients are complying with ISO’s quality management standard ISO 9001:2000. However, said ISO, they would also be useful to guide in-house audits of quality systems, “as well as to consultants, trainers and anyone with an interest in quality”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL crime is usually a cat-and-mouse game, with the criminals staying one step ahead of law enforcement. Maybe nowhere is this truer than with money laundering, where ever more elaborate scams are devised to make dirty money smell of roses.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is fighting a legal decision it fears could make United States courts de facto global anti-trust regulators, even in cases with no direct impact on the USA. It has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a DC Court of Appeals ruling allowing non-US plaintiffs to bring foreign anti-trust claims to American courts claiming a case might have a “direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on US domestic or foreign commerce.”…

Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) policies towards borrower countries will henceforth be influenced by their capacity to implement Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations on fighting money laundering. IMF directors have agreed these assessments “do not contravene the prohibition of the Fund to exercise law enforcement powers”.…