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KYOTO PROTOCOL DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE LAUNCH - GLOBAL WARMING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol compliance committee has been launched by the Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat. It will have an ‘enforcement’ branch, able to "determine consequences" for governments breaching Kyoto commitments. A ‘facilitative’ branch will help erring signatories with their problems.…
EU MOROCCO FISHING AGREEMENT APPROVAL DELAY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IMPLEMENTATION of the European Union’s (EU) new fishing agreement with Morocco will be delayed by at least one month after the European Parliament refused to fast track its scrutiny of the deal. Rejecting a call from the EU Council of Ministers for parliamentary committees to immediately wind-up their inquiries and for MEPs to vote on the agreement Thursday April 6, the parliament will now approve or reject its terms in May.…
ARAB COUNTRIES MONEY LAUNDERING PRECAUTIONS ISLAMIC BANKING FAMILY BUSINESSES
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo
WITH the fight against money laundering and counter terrorism financing relatively new to the Middle East (the first plenary session of the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force
– MENA-FATF – was only held last year), financial institutions from the US and MENA met in Cairo for a Private Sector Dialogue (PSD) conference to discuss the implementation of international regulations in the region.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
INDIA MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROLS - NEW FIU
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
India – US$692 billion economy, 10th largest in the world and growing at 8% annually – has finally put an official anti-money laundering public organisation in place. Its Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), as required by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act-2002 (PMLA), which came into force in July 2005, has become fully operational.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
EU BANANA PRODUCTION SUBSIDY LIBERALISATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is reviewing the European Union’s banana production subsidy system. It is consulting on four options including no change, little change, decoupling subsidies from production and funding banana subsidies from special remote regions budgets.
ENDS…
NON-EU COUNTRY GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS LINK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released an Internet registration service that will allow non-European Union (EU) drinks producers to apply for geographical indication protection within the EU for their traditional products. This follows the change in EU laws to allow non-EU producers to secure such protection, which has previously been reserved for EU drinks only.…
ROMANIA COMMERCIAL CRIME FEATURE - EU ACCESSION RESPONSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIA is desperate to join the European Union (EU) but it remains unclear whether that desperation extends to clamping down on business crime, one of the key obstacles that Romania must overcome to gain entry to the club.…
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM STANDARDS - BSI, CEN
BY MARK ROWE
THE BRITISH museum sector is working with its European counterparts to produce a series of internationally recognised standards to govern the way they work, exhibit and look after their collections.
This move towards harmonisation follows the recent increase in the number of European Union member states and the significant rise in cultural exchanges between museums following this expansion.…