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ECJ ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STREAMLINING, multi-tasking and flexible posting of employees may be important weapons in the arsenal of a personnel team looking at getting the most efficiency out of their company, but managers had better make sure that their policies are legal, not only under national laws, but European law too.…
DRUG PRECURSORS
BY PHILIP FINE
IN its comprehensive annual report on worldwide drugs activities, the US
government is asking foreign countries to be more transparent with information on
their legal chemical industries that might be useful in controlling the production and trade in illicit drug precursors.…
USA FEATURE
BY PHILIP FINE
THE EXTRAORDINARY efforts by the American government to thwart terrorist financing have been leaning heavily on the USA’s financial services industry,
which continues to bear the brunt of the new anti-money laundering legislation.
Noone was surprised that the US government set its sights on the banks when it enacted legislation to make it more difficult for criminals to launder their illicit money or for terrorists to soil their clean money.…
DIRTY BOMB
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NUCLEAR energy security experts have called at a conference in Vienna, Austria, for improvements in international security standards for the protection of radioactive sources that could help make a terrorist ‘dirty bomb’. This International Conference on Security of Radioactive Sources was staged by the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency.…
ZAMBIA COPPERBELT
BY RICHARD HURST
THE WORLD Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have agreed to fund a US$55.77 million environmental management programme in Zambia’s copper mining region; the decision should tackle concerns that the bank – which has long been suggesting the programme – has been dragging its feet over releasing funding.…
ZAMBIA COPPERBELT
BY RICHARD HURST
THE WORLD Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have agreed to fund a US$55.77 million environmental management programme in Zambia’s copper mining region. The Copperbelt Environmental Project (CEP) will try to improve the compliance of Zambian copper producers with the country’s environmental regulations.…
ICC LAUNCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH High Court judge Sir Adrian Fulford was among 18 judges sworn in this week (11/03) to serve on the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court (ICC), which will sit at The Hague, the Netherlands.…
TUBULAR GOODS ROW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEXICAN government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, (formal talks), over claims that the reimposition by the United States of anti-dumping duties on its exports of oil country tubular goods broke global trading regulations.…
GULF OF FINLAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL financing consortium is to fund a previously abandoned Euro 166 million project to build a waste water treatment plant in St Petersburg, Russia. Its aim is to prevent pollution in the Gulf of Finland, which causes environmental health problems in neighbouring Finland and Estonia.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s anti-fraud office OLAF has been called in to investigate financial corruption at the EU’s Committee of the Regions, the Brussels body representing local governments across Europe.
Its investigators are checking allegations made by Dutch socialist MEP Michiel van Hulten to the European Parliament that the record of financial probity at the CoR “can only be described as alarming.”…