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EU REGULATORY ROUND UP – EU PAINT MANUFACTURERS FACE NEW LABELLING AND CLASSIFICATION RULES
Paint and coatings manufacturers and suppliers in the European Union (EU) will face another set of detailed sustainability rules, through the passage into law of a revised EU classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation. EU chemical industry association CEFIC is one body that has warned that supply chain problems could follow, with the availability of chemicals and chemical products being restricted or blocked should producers and importers not comply with the new controls.…
INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL ROUND UP - ISSB REVIEWS SECTOR-SPECIFIC SASB STANDARDS TO BOOST THEIR GLOBAL APPLICABILITY
Accountants and auditors have been asked to contribute to an International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) review of its sector specific SASB standards, to make them more applicable worldwide. The ISSB has taken responsibility for the former Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards, which companies using its IFRS S1 and S2 standards on general sustainability and climates must consider when drafting sustainability reports.…
DIGITISATION OF FASHION SECTOR INCREASES NEED TO STRONG CYBERSECURITY
Fashion brands have been warned to step up online security as the industry becomes increasingly digitalised and Russian hackers pose an increased risk as the country’s military struggles to maintain its invasion of Ukraine.
While digitalisation brings enhanced sustainability, reduced waste, stricter inventory management, personalised designs, smart wearable tech garments, AI-enabled virtual fittings and integrated supply chains, increasing online data offers bad actors additional attack vectors, said Maryland, US-based cyber exposure management company Tenable. …
‘SYNTHETIC IDENTITY’ FRAUD SPARKS CONCERN AMONG REGULATORS – BUT WILL BANKS FIGHT IT EFFICIENTLY?
Anti-fraud agencies, financial institutions and central banks are working increasingly hard to fight sophisticated identity fraud, where fraudsters build an identity based on stolen IDs to open bank and credit card accounts. These comprehensive fake IDs – sometimes pulling together multiple identity elements and invented details – are often subbed ‘synthetic identity’ frauds.…
ASIAN PAINT AND COATING REGULATORY ROUND-UP – INDONESIA MULLS BAN ON LEAD IN PAINTS
The Indonesian government is drafting a regulation to ban lead-based paints in the country, Markus Winarto, the secretary-general of the Indonesian Paint Manufacturers Association (APCI) has told PPCJ. The government has been under pressure from environmental health activists to take this step – one already taken in the Philippines, for example, but is facing some difficulties in finding alternatives for certain applications such as road markings and anti-corrosion coatings, said Winarto.…
OBLIGED ENTITIES SHOULD KEEP REVIEWING AND REFORMING AML SCREENING RED FLAGS, SAY EXPERTS
Anti-money laundering is a detection game, with AML officers (AMLOs) looking for red flags that may indicate crime-tainted transactions, and then digging deeper. But that usually requires automated alerts which need to be managed and tweaked, with algorithms configured according to risk.…
‘SYNTHETIC IDENTITY’ FRAUD SPARKS CONCERN AMONG REGULATORS – BUT WILL BANKS FIGHT IT EFFICIENTLY?
Anti-fraud agencies, financial institutions and central banks are working increasingly hard to fight sophisticated identity fraud, where fraudsters build an identity based on stolen IDs to open bank and credit card accounts. These comprehensive fake IDs – sometimes pulling together multiple identity elements and invented details – are often subbed ‘synthetic identity’ frauds.…
EU/WTO REGULATORY ROUND UP – GLOBAL DEAL ON FOOD TRADE STILL TARGETED AT WTO
Global negotiators continue to chase the dream of an international agreement on trading food and drink products, despite talks having continued, without agreement, since 2001. That was when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round of talks were launched, with the key goal of revamping the WTO agreement on agriculture, which covers food and drink.…
IMPLEMANTAION OF ESG CRITERIA CAN CONTRIBUTE TO LONG TERM SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS - GCC ARE SUGGESTING TO THEIR BUSINESS
An ACCA co-hosted conference in Dubai has heard how today, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) bloc companies should not view meeting ESG (environmental, social, governance) standards as an optional add-on, which may help marketing, but as a prerequisite for commercial long-term survival.…
IRELAND’S CAN FILLING SECTORS FACE UP TO MANDATORY RECYCLING REGIMES
A new national mandatory recycling regime announced last November (2022) (1) being introduced by Ireland’s government has local breweries shying away from canned beer formats.
“We wouldn’t consider cans now because the DRS [deposit return scheme] scheme is punitive in its execution,” said Richard Siberry, founder, GM and head brewer of Roscommon-based Black Donkey Brewing, a craft brewer with nationwide sales.…