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REACH REPLICAS IN ASIA CONTINUE TO BE MOVING TARGET, SAY EXPERTS
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) might have been making the regulatory heavy weather with its REACH chemical control system, but paints and coatings companies increasingly have to pay close attention to developing chemicals regulations in Asia-Pacific countries such as China and South Korea.…
JAMÓN SERRANO SEEKS PROTECTED STATUS
Spain’s meat industry has formally requested that its government’s agriculture ministry asks the European Union (EU) to award EU geographical indication (PGI) status to jamón serrano (dry-cured, mountain ham). The Confederation of Spanish Meat Organisations (Confecarne) and the Spanish Serrano Ham Foundation (FJSE) are seeking the legal protections that PGI status would bring.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES CANETE AS CLIMATE AND ENERGY COMMISSIONER, REJECTS ENERGY VICE-PRESIDENT
THE EUROPEAN Parliament on Wednesday (8 October) voted to accept the Spanish commissioner-designate Miguel Arias Cañete for the climate and energy portfolio after a week of uncertainty. However, it rejected the former Slovenian prime-minister Alenka Bratušek as vice-president for the energy union in the new European Commission due to take office on November 1.…
EUROPEAN OIL REFINERS WELCOME CONTINUATION OF CARBON LEAKAGE MEASURES BEYOND 2020
THE ASSOCIATION representing the European oil refining industry, FuelsEurope, welcomed as essential the announcement on October 24 by European Union (EU) presidents and prime-ministers that free carbon emission allowances will continue to be awarded after 2020. But it stressed that such free pollution permits must be allocated to the refining sector.…
BRUSSELS TABLES NEW FUEL QUALITY DIRECTIVE FORMULA – OIL SANDS STILL RECOGNISED AS DIRTIER
THE EUROPEAN Commission will once more try to persuade European Union (EU) member states to approve a technical formula for assessing how member states reduce by 6% carbon emissions associated with transport fuel production and use. Under the EU’s 2009 fuel quality directive, this is supposed to be achieved by 2020, but agreement has not been secured on measuring this reduction.…
PROLIFERATION FINANCE COMPLIANCE FACES CHALLENGES
DESPITE the huge risks involved in states funding weapons of mass destruction in breach of international non-proliferation rules, this problem has not received the same attention as anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) in compliance regimes. Only over the past two years has world’s senior AML body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) started to address shortcomings, while the United Nations is moving from a decade of awareness building to pushing implementation.…
COMPLIANCE SYSTEM TESTING SOLUTIONS HELP INSTITUTIONS DELVE DEEPER INTO AML TECHNOLOGY
Regulators worldwide are making growing demands on financial institutions to demonstrate the effectiveness of their compliance systems, creating an increasingly lucrative market for testing anti-money laundering (AML) IT systems, for instance showing their ability to undertake deep analysis. As a result, solutions providers are offering systems that enable clients to benchmark their AML compliance performance against rivals within their sectors; they are also developing testing tools that can be tailored and managed by a client in house; and hire increasing numbers of regulatory specialists able to ensure compliance systems cover all the regulatory requirements and risks.…
NEW EU ENERGY COMMISSIONERS STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTRICITY INTERCONNECTIONS
THE INCOMING European Union (EU) energy and climate change Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and his boss, the future European Commission vice-president for the energy union Maroš Šefčovič have highlighted the need for smart grids and electricity interconnections as way to make Europe more self-reliant for energy.…
EUROPEAN METALS SECTOR WELCOMES PRO-INDUSTRY DIRECTION OF SOON-TO-BE-CONFIRMED EUROPEAN COMMISSION
European non-ferrous metals industry associations have said they are positive about the re-industrialisation policy of the new European Commission of president Jean-Claude Juncker. His team could this week receive formal approval from the European Parliament, with only one political casualty during the hearings process that ended last week.…
ASEAN COMMON MARKET LAUNCH UNLIKELY TO MEAN A BIG DEAL FOR TOBACCO INDUSTRY
By the end of next year, the increasingly wealthy 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc aims to establish its own European Union-style common market for its combined population of 600 million.
Experts say that the new ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is expected to deepen cohesion and liberalisation within a regional market that has already made significant strides in removing trade barriers that can impact tobacco product sales.…