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ECJ REJECTS HEINEKEN AND BAVARIA APPEALS AGAINST BEER CARTEL FINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ROB STOKES
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected final appeals by Dutch brewers Heineken, (including subsidiary Heineken Nederland) and Bavaria NV, against European Commission fines of Euro EUR198 million and EUR20.71 million respectively over a Netherlands beer cartel.…
COMARCH HELPS STREAMLINE MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN TELCOS AND ENTERPRISES WITH ITS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
WITH telecommunications operators across Europe increasingly seeing flat lined revenue growth from residential mobile customers, new sights currently are being set on cultivating and enhancing relationships with enterprise customers.
And while the transition towards offering comprehensive service bundles to enterprise customers can involve a lot of legwork on the telco side, companies like Poland-based Comarch offer software systems and solutions helping telcos better support enterprises.…
INCREASING CROSS-BORDER CRIME PROMPTS EU TO CRANK UP ANTI-FRAUD SERVICES
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
IT is now 10 year since the launch of Eurojust, the European Union’s (EU) judicial service coordination body, yet official figures still value fraud against EU spending and revenue programmes at for than EUR600 million (USD 800 million) each year.…
NO REASON TO LIMIT OR BAN CRYSTALLINE SILICA AND TALC IN WORKPLACES, IMA-EUROPE BOSS SAYS
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
THERE are no reasons for the European Union to restrict or even ban the use of crystalline silica or talc in workplaces across Europe, Michelle Wyart-Remy, secretary general of Industrial Minerals Association Europe (IMA-Europe) has said.…
EU ENERGY REGULATORS CLAIM EUROPEAN POWER AND GAS PRICES ARE STARTING TO CONVERGE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT released by the European Union’s (EU) umbrella groups for gas and electricity regulators has claimed wholesale energy prices within the EU are beginning to converge, as cross-border sales develop. Consumer prices still varied significantly between the EU’s 27 member states, however.…
JAPAN EXPECTED TO LOOSEN BEEF IMPORT RULES IN 2013
BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO
THE JAPANESE government has signalled that it will relax its rules on beef imports in the early part of 2013.
After hearing the opinions of a 13-strong expert panel, ministers said they would raise the age limit on livestock used to source beef imports to 30 months from the present 20 months.…
UK CROWN DEPENDENCIES STILL AWAIT FULL BLESSING FROM AML WATCHDOGS
BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN’S Crown Dependencies (CDs) – the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man – have always been tricky customers for the world’s anti money laundering authorities to get a fix on. This shows up in the approach taken by the European Commission to them in its so-called anti-money laundering (AML) ‘white list’."…
NEW EU RULES ON ANIMAL WELFARE COULD KNOCK POULTRY MEAT QUALITY, INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVE SAYS
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
NEW European Union (EU) rules on animal welfare applying from January 2013 might depress the quality of EU-made poultry meat, a spokesman for a major Dutch poultry producer told an international conference in Brussels on the protection of animals in slaughterhouses.…
US GOVERNMENT SHOULD BACK MEXICAN CASE AGAINST CHINA CLOTHING SUBSIDIES SAY AMERICAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS
BY LEAH GERMAIN AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
USA textile industry experts are urging the American government to step up and support the recent complaint filed by Mexico at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Chinese industrial policy regarding the textile and clothing sector.…
THE NUMBERS GAME IN VIETNAM - KATHERINE WU, UNILEVER
BY CONNLA STOKES, IN HO CHI MINH CITY
As one of the world’s fastest-growing accountancy bodies, ACCA is attracting more finance and management professionals in Asia eager to get to the top. This is certainly the case for Shanghai, China-born Katherine Wu.…