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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved an EU regulation on materials and articles in contact with food, allowing the use across Europe of ‘intelligent materials’ that inform consumers about the freshness of products. Until now, EU legislation had effectively banned many of these new packaging materials because of health concerns.…

Keith Nuthall
THE JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) has a new chief executive: former director general of the Swiss Civil Aviation Authority AndrÃ(c) Auer, 56.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW whistle-blowers have hit the headlines as much as accountant Marta Andreasen who was suspended by the European Commission in 2002 after disclosing serious weaknesses in its bookkeeping system and has now just been formally sacked.

Of all those who have taken the brave and often lonely path of public disclosure, Ms Andreasen, as the Commission’s former chief accounting officer, is by far the most senior.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARCTIC is experiencing “the most rapid and severe climate change on earth”, twice the rate of other regions, says an Arctic Climate Impact Assessment by the Arctic Council, representing Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the US.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SEPTEMBER 11 attacks sparked a major overhaul of national and international money laundering laws around the world, based on concerns that Al Qaida had clearly shifted money into the USA to finance its operations, unnoticed by banks and law enforcement.…

Keith Nuthall
KEY revisions to the European Union’s (EU) accounting directives have been proposed by the European Commission, to boost confidence in financial reporting by companies. The proposals extend and clarify the responsibilities of boards to ensure accurate and comprehensive information is released to investors and the public.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE of the first applications of plastics nanotechnology in the field of ballistic materials was shown to delegates at the conference Advanced Technologies in Crime Prevention and Detection organised by the Institute of Nanotechnology in London earlier this month.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUBLIC authorities have no free hand to change terms and conditions of employees they inherit when taking over a private organisation, the European Court of Justice has (ECJ) ruled. It says when a European Union (EU) civil service adjusts salaries by time served, a new employee’s working record for their former private employer should be taken into account.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
KEY revisions to the European Union’s (EU) accounting directives have been proposed by the European Commission, to boost confidence in financial reporting by companies. The proposals would enshrine in EU law the collective responsibility of limited company board members for any published financial and other key information about their businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
THE TOP selling guidebook Lonely Planet is rather dismissive of San Marino, calling the world’s oldest republic and Europe’s third smallest state “a silly place”. True, there is a touch of the comic opera about this Italian-speaking enclave, with it spiffily unformed ceremonial guards and its reliance on sales of colourful stamps, but San Marino does have a significant financial sector, and so is of interest to anti-money laundering professionals.…