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BY MARK ROWE
UZBEKISTAN has been at the forefront of international AML efforts in the central Asia region, a spokesman for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told the Money Laundering Bulletin. Uzbekistan has the most advanced AML legislation and apparatus of all the former Soviet Central Asia and has signed more than 20 bilateral and multilateral agreements on cooperation in fighting illicit drug trafficking with its Central Asian neighbours, as well as with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, according to the International Money Laundering Information Network (IMOLIN), (whose contributing members include the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the United Nations and the World Customs Organisation).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY Sweden and Denmark must do more to prevent nutrient-rich water run-off from their rivers and coasts killing thousands of fish in the western Baltic Sea, said an international research project. The official Baltic Sea international environmental watchdog The Helsinki Commission – tasked with investigating mass deaths of fish in the region in 2002 – has concluded that higher levels of nutrients from agriculture, urban wastewater and air pollution poured into the sea after heavy rain and snow the previous winter, creating algal blloms that starved the lower levels of the western Baltic of oxygen over the summer and autumn of last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has warned that fraudsters are deceiving the customers of Channel Island banks into providing personal banking information by intercepting correspondence and inserting doctored tax collection forms. These counterfeit Form R105’s are based on legitimate British Inland Revenue forms, but solicit more details then the originals and have – of course – a fake return address.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 270 million to the Czech airport authority CSL to design and construct a new terminal (Terminal North II) at Prague Ruzyne International Airport. The new terminal would be dedicated to flights from countries in the Schengen area bloc.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against EU vegetable, fruit juice and mustard exports following the imposition of a European directive on beef production hormones. It confirms their prohibition for meat sold in Europe, but Brussels claims that by basing the law on science, it countered WTO criticism that the bans were illegal by being insufficiently based on risk assessments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RULING on car registration legislation at the European Court of Justice could remove red tape demands on European fleet managers whose companies’ employ workers living in more than one European Union country. Judges have stated national governments cannot insist a worker’s company car be registered in their home country, rather than where a company and its fleet management is based.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed filling legal loopholes that can allow countries suffering from foot and mouth disease and classical swine fever to export live animals to the European Union (EU). Proposed reforms would allow the EU to ban the import of all cloven hoofed species, notably wild animals where controls are currently too weak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SHIPBREAKING, a ready source of scrap steel, is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. What is more, agreed a recent meeting of experts from the International Metalworkers Federation, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and others, it need not be so deadly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Sweden with legal action at the European Court of Justice over a ban on its residents ordering private deliveries of alcohol via independent import delivery services. Under Swedish law, private individuals can, under certain conditions, bring alcohol into Sweden for their own use, if they do so personally.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened Sweden with legal action at the European Court of Justice over a ban on its residents ordering private deliveries of alcohol via independent import delivery services. Under Swedish law, private individuals can, under certain conditions, bring alcohol into Sweden for their own use, if they do so personally.…