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BY ALAN OSBORN

THE MONEY Laundering Bulletin has found effects of the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive’s (2MLD) extension of EU anti-money laundering regulations to a range of businesses and professions are complicated by differences in the definition of the professions between the 27 member states.…

BY MARK ROWE

RUSSIA’S new-found belligerence and confidence is not confined to the political and military sphere: in the past four years – and increasingly so in the past 12 months – Russia has adopted an aggressive, take-it-or-leave it stance when it comes to imports of dairy and other food products.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission was poised when the Petroleum Review went to press to unveil a long awaited package of energy proposals, although Brussels was expected to shy away from tabling wholesale unbundling of gas producers and distributors.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ALTHOUGH the European Commission has concluded that there is no immediate need for any revision of the packaging and packaging waste directive 94/62/EC, a 2006 report on options for the packaging industry trumpets Brussels’ view that there is long term work required.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

THE EUROPEAN Commission in Brussels has launched a detailed inquiry into the payment of a grant of around US$7.5 million by the Flemish regional government in Belgium to support training at the auto company Volvo Cars Gent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states and the European Commission are squaring up ahead of a political battle this autumn over anticipated energy liberalisation proposals. A letter from France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg and Slovakia has been written to the Commission stating their firm opposition to comprehensive energy unbundling in anticipated proposed European Union (EU) legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LEGAL action is being prepared by the European Commission against another three European Union (EU) countries over their minimum price systems for cigarettes. Brussels opposes these as an illegal restriction of trade, and recently forced Belgium into abandoning its minimum price system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has struck an important deal with Algeria, ensuring it supplies gas to European markets competitively, scrapping restrictive profit sharing contracts. Algeria is a key gas exporter in the EU’s fight to secure energy security without relying on Russia, and Algiers has now agreed with the European Commission that pipeline gas can be sold-on within Europe, without a cut going to Algerian gas producer Sonatrach.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CONCERNS that non-British bus and coach drivers from 10 European Union (EU) member states could have weak professional driving training and be a public transport safety risk are being addressed by the European Commission. It is threatening action at the European Court of Justice against these countries for not complying with an EU directive on professional drivers training that insists upon 280 hours compulsory basic training and 35 hours further training every five years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE PLASTICS industry is currently faced with a wave of European Union (EU) legislation in different stages of enactment and implementation that will impact on its operations and sales. One particularly important and long-debated law is the new and comprehensive waste directive that is now approaching a final phase in the EU decision-taking process, and could be in force within a year from now.…