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BY MARK ROWEAND ZLATKO ?ONKA?

IT is easy to see why the European Commission is upset over money laundering in Bulgaria, a key consequence of the widespread corruption bedevilling the country before and since it joined the European Union (EU) in 2007.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

Kurdish Iraq tobacco market is Middle East black market hub

International tobacco companies entered Kurdish Iraq after the US-led invasion. But political instability has made this a tough market to operate in. Black market trades thrive. And there are a wide variety of brands from around the world available.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE FIRST major compliance deadline for the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH has passed, and paint manufacturers, importers and suppliers are breathing a sigh of relief.

"Overall, I think it has been quite challenging for both industries and ECHA [the European Chemicals Agency based in Helsinki, Finland], but I think we are both relieved to have the first deadline past, and I think it was quite successful on both sides," said Laurence Hoffstadt (NOTE: NAME IS SPELLED CORRECTLY), a scientific officer with ECHA, which governs and administers Europe’s chemical registration programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD manufacturers in the European Union (EU) may have to note the origin of certain ingredients on labelling in future under a new proposed EU food marketing standards system. The European Commission today tabled a regulation enabling it, following consultation, to order such ingredient labelling – a memorandum said the dairy sector would be assessed first.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

The past two years have been tough for Price Waterhouse, India’s branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). The firm has been caught up in the billion dollar Satyam scandal that exploded onto the world’s newspapers, televisions and computer screens from January 2009.…

By Keith Nuthall

With the British general election looming this week and the prospect of a change in government, one issue seems to electrify UK electors and politicians above all others, and that is immigration. In a sense, this is not surprising.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SCENIHR report offers ammunition for anti-tobacco lobby in oncoming EU ingredients directive review

The European Union’s (EU) scientific committee on emerging health risks has released a considered report on whether tobacco additives make tobacco products more addictive. While it has not released an explicitly anti-additive report, it has concluded that they may promote addiction.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

HAS the world found the means to drive rapid growth of distributed power generation in the rural areas? Yes, believes a group of young entrepreneurs in India who are using the rice husk-fired gasification process to operate small generation units in off-grid remote villages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT maybe an impossible task: but the European Union (EU) is trying to assess the environmental impact of biofuels sufficiently accurately to draft regulations that promote green biofuels, rather than generate too many greenhouse gas emissions. The European Commission last month (December) announced that rules on laying down sustainability standards for the direct impact on greenhouse gas emissions from biofuel production were now in force.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REPORT from environmental groups including Transport & Environment and Friends of the Earth has argued unused land twice as large as Belgium could be cultivated for biofuel feedstock within the European Union (EU): ‘Anticipated Indirect Land Use Change Associated with Expanded Use of Biofuels in the EU’ argues this would generate 73 million tonnes additional CO2 emissions annually.…