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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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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…

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.…

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.…

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.…