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The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), a technical agency of the Organisation of American States (OAS), is playing an increasingly influential role in the Americas in terms of fighting drug-trade linked money laundering. Specifically, CICAD has a central role in the unfolding of the Hemispheric Plan of Action on Drugs 2011-2015 which was adopted by the OAS in 2011, and includes key anti-money launderingAML components.…

EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) farmers association Copa-Cogeca has warned today (Friday) that the EU beef sector is “catastrophic situation”, arguing that it was no time to increase access to EU beef markets through bilateral trade talks.

Negotiations with Canada are close to completion and the Canadian government is pushing for better EU market access for its beef exporters.…

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) has detailed how it might become more involved in pharmaceutical research in future. It has released a detailed plan saying under what circumstances the agency should become involved in studies and how it should choose projects and avoid conflicts of interest.…

NICHOLAS Hoare, Canada’s specialist British book retailer is closing for good, after its eponymous 70-year-old founder decided to retire and move to a stately house in rural Nova Scotia, in eastern Canada.

The chain has been contracting, closing its Ottawa store last April and its Montreal branch on New Year’s Day, and finally its Toronto flagship outlet on April 1.…

IT is said that should the ravens that live in the Tower of London fly away, then the British monarchy will fall. What does this say, then about Canada’s own political talisman – the stray cats of Parliament Hill? For these indomitable semi-feral mousers, for decades parliament’s unpaid rat catchers – were given their marching orders this winter.…

SUCCESSION issues are a significant and growing challenge for companies and could be an opportunity for qualified accountants who may step up internally or be drafted in to even become the next CEO or CFO.

“Many businesses spend very little time, if any, thinking through who will lead the various aspects of their business in the future,” said Karen Young, a director for the senior finance section of global recruitment experts Hays, and whose remit includes qualified accountancy jobs including finance director, financial controller, management accountant, financial accountant, or practice accounting.…

A SLOW revolution in the use of biomass for firing or co-firing power generation is picking up pace this year as a number of competing technologies for the production of ‘biocoal’ move more convincingly towards full commercialisation.

Biocoal produced through torrefaction – in which dry biomass such as wood, paper, food waste and even sewerage waste is slow-heated anoxically (to avoid combustion) at 200C to 300C to reduce moisture and drive off low-energy volatile chemicals – offers slightly degraded fuel with lower emissions and carbon footprints (it is carbon neutral) than traditional biomass and, certainly, than coal.…

A REGULATION aimed at ensuring the rollout of broadband networks across the European Union (EU) is achieved more cheaply and swiftly has been proposed by the European Commission. It tries to force member states to ensure new buildings are broadband ready, while telling incumbent telcos to give access to their physical networks to broadband service providers.…

A METHODOLOGY for calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of fuels written into the proposed European Union (EU) fuel quality directive could restrict access to crude oil for the European refining industry, Baudouin Kelecom, chairman of the Automotive Fuels Action Group of EU petroleum association Europia has warned.…

Venezuela’s steel industry and investors are hoping the country’s Interim President Nicolás Maduro will break with the policies of his late predecessor Hugo Chávez, which have severely buffeted a once largely private and highly profitable sector.

“The disaster of the industry is a combination of policy and mismanagement,” explained analyst Robert Bottome, director of the Caracas-based VenEconomy Publications Group.…