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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada have struck a cooperation deal over regulating biotechnology products, including novel cosmetics. The agreement solves a long-running World Trade Organisation dispute between Ottawa and Brussels over genetically modified product controls, which Canada has argued can be too restrictive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Canada have struck a cooperation deal over regulating genetically modified products. The agreement, solving a long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute, will see them consult in detail twice-a-year over GM rules. These would include GM product approvals in the EU and Canada, plus forthcoming applications; the commercial and economic outlook for potential future GM product approvals; and actions dealing with the accidental release of unauthorised products.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; KARRYN MILLER, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

IT almost seems commonsense to say that an industry providing such a human product as clothing has to take account of cultural sensibilities in target markets.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN government will match the automotive emissions standards being introduced by the USA’s Obama administration. Canada’s environment minister Jim Prentice said: "We will work together to ensure we have a single, dominant north American standard for carbon emissions and fuel economy."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN single malt whisky producer Glenora Distillers is celebrating victory in its long legal battle with the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) over its trademark ‘Glen Breton’. Canada’s Supreme Court yesterday (June 11) rejected a SWA application to appeal against a lower court ruling allowing Glenora rights to the name.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UPDATED detailed guidelines have been issued for Arctic oil and gas exploration and extraction projects taking into account the region’s punishing, yet delicate environment.

They have been released by the Arctic Council, which represents countries with Arctic territory: Canada, Denmark (through its Greenland dependency), Iceland, Finland, Russia, Sweden, Norway and the USA.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, LUCY JONES, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, JULIAN RYALL, and KARRYN MILLER

THERE are 108 recognised Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) throughout the world and more are being created every year as the fight against international money laundering becomes ever more global.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE

THE SCOTCH Whisky Association (SWA) has announced it plans to appeal a Canadian court ruling allowing a Nova Scotia distillery to call its product ‘Glen Breton’. The SWA is petitioning the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a the Canadian Court of Appeal decision allowing Glenora Distillers, in Cape Breton, on Canada’s Atlantic coast, to use ‘Glen’ in the name of its single malt whisky.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CORRUPTION begets fraud and fraud begets corruption, and there are few harder crimes to tackle than complex frauds rooted in institutionalised and culturally tolerated corruption. As a result, the work of international organisation Transparency International has been key in fighting fraud worldwide, especially that linked to corruption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL standard helping food companies protect their products against counterfeiting is being drafted by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). It wants formal global guidelines ensuring the many devices and systems used to authenticate genuine products operate at a high standard.…