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AUSTRALIA PUSHES AHEAD WITH COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REFORMS
BY KARRYN CARTELLE
AUSTRALIA is currently ranked as the eighth largest market in the world – third largest within the Asia-Pacific region after Japan and Hong Kong – in terms of its total stock market capitalisation of AUD$1.63 trillion (USD$1.53 trillion) in 2007 (World Federation of Exchanges figures).…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES UNFAIR TRADING ACTIONS AGAINST UTILITIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made progress in a series of legal actions against European Union (EU) utilities alleging unfair trading. Notably, Brussels has launched anti-trust inquiries involving Germany’s E.ON (and E.ON Ruhrgas) plus Gaz de France (GDF), alleging illegal trust agreements to avoid supplying gas to each other’s home market following the liberalisation of the EU markets.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION APPROVES SCANDINAVIAN TOBACCO FIRM TAKEOVER BY BAT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PLANNED acquisition by British American Tobacco (BAT) of certain roll-you-own tobacco and snus sections of Denmark’s Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni (STK) has been approved by the European Commission. To secure this agreement, BAT had to promise selling-off certain brands in Norway (notably Petterøe’s and Tiedemanns Rød), where the expanded company would have had a dominant position.…
EFSA FINDS BRITAIN HAS APPALLING SLAUGHTERED PIG SALMONELLA RATES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN has one of the European Union’s (EU) worst rates of salmonella contamination of slaughtered pigs, a new study from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found. Analysing data collected from 2006 to 2007, the EU agency has concluded that 21.2% of slaughtered pigs within the UK had contracted the disease, compared to an EU-wide average of 10.3%.…
SOMETIMES WHATEVER THE POLLUTION, A DROP OF SUNSHINE OR OLIVE OIL KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health officers think they are helping keep people fit and well by reducing pollution and food disease. But maybe the best move the cold, rheumatism and asthma sufferers of Britain can make to be healthy is emigrate to a Greek island, sunbathe (moderately) and eat fish, vegetables and olive oil.…
FOREIGN EU MEMBER STATES CANNOT ISSUE REPLACEMENT LICENCES TO BANNED DRIVERS: ECJ
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LORRY drivers who have their licences confiscated by a court should not be able to apply for a driving permit in a foreign European Union (EU) country and get back to work, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL UTILITY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL ENERGY COMPANY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…
Brussels mourns EU pioneer
David Haworth, in BrusselsWith the return to power in Rome of Silvio Berlusconi, Noisy Politics will also make a reappearance in the corridors of European Union power. The age of celebrity is such that it’s easy to overlook the possibility of a modest, exemplary life of achievement in what is often reviled as a “grubby trade”.Outside Ireland, the recent passing of at 85 of Dr. P.J. Hillery – “Paddy” to his friends -was little noticed yet his achievements as a statesman were huge.
The son of a country doctor, he became a general practitioner himself but slipped, unobtrusively at first, into Irish politics.…
EU PILOT SCHEME SEEKS TO EASE CROSS-BORDER ELECTRONIC PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW pilot initiative is aiming to make European Union (EU) national electronic public procurement systems compatible, to ease cross-border online tendering. Although EU law insists that public procurement contracts are made available to suppliers from foreign member states, making such bids can involve difficult and unfamiliar paperwork.…