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Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union moves towards the mandatory application of International Accounting Standards for listed companies, the European Commission has proposed reforms to the existing directives that harmonise national accounting laws that will remain in place for other businesses.…

Keith Nuthall
A SPECIAL conference on settling a number of maritime border disputes in the Caribbean has been launched, which could help develop international law regarding the effect of uninhabited island on establishing exclusive economic zones.

One wrangle is between Venezuela and the Caribbean island state of St Kitts and Nevis, which has been protesting about maritime boundary treaties concluded by the south American state regarding the so-called Isla Aves; they grant the islands full territorial sea status, including an exclusive economic zone, or continental shelf.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has slammed the door shut on entreaties from the American government to abandon its plans to exempt EU-based suppliers of digital products from charging VAT when they sell to customers in non-EU countries.…

Keith Nuthall
FORMAL guidelines have been issued by the European Commission, which call on EU Member States to ensure that auditors should be banned from carrying out a statutory audit if they have any possibly compromising relationship with a client.

These, said Brussels official Regulation, “may include any financial, business, employment or other link, or any situations where the auditors provide to the same client services additional to the audit.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SOCIOLOGISTS and police have gathered together at Europol’s headquarters in the Hague, to share intelligence on a number of killings across Europe that appear to have been ritualistic in nature; these include the “Adam” case, where the savagely dismembered torso of a boy about five years old, was found in the Thames last September.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products has asked for comments from the pharmaceutical industry on its draft regulations covering the manufacture or the import of medicines that are still under investigation. These would insist that applications for authorisation should include information on qualified persons involved in the project as well as the site where manufacturing and importation is to take place, as well as other data.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE FIRST steps have been taken towards making cigarettes – a cornerstone of small shop revenue – an under-the-counter product worldwide. Laws have already been passed in Canada and Ireland banning the public display of tobacco products, dismaying shopkeepers’ representatives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT holy grail of environmentalists, an economy that grows, yet imposes a declining burden on the environment, has yet to be achieved in the European Union, although some important steps have been made in the right direction, claims the European Environment Agency.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted a ban on the imports of certain fish, (including farmed fish), and fish products from China following the presentation of new information by the Chinese authorities and the favourable results of tests carried out by the EU Food and Veterinary Office.…

Keith Nuthall
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to invest US$20 million in a Russian tyre manufacturing plant being built by France’s Michelin group; it is, says the bank, the first western tyre manufacturer to establish a Russia-based production line for the local market.…