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BY ROB STOKES

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has castigated France and Australia for failing to prosecute local businesses bribing foreign officials since criminalising these acts in 2000 under the OECD convention of combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BULGARIAN government wants to secure European Union (EU) geographical indication protection for local rose oil. It says the cosmetics and perfume ingredient is of such high quality, that it should be registered in Brussels, preventing manufacturers selling ‘Bulgarian rose oil’ unless it is manufactured in Bulgaria by traditional methods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CEO of L’Oréal is resisting French government plans to impose a 75% tax rate on incomes above Euro EUR1million. The new socialist administration of President Francois Hollande has published a budget including the controversial idea, and L’Oréal’s Jean-Paul Agon is opposing it, warning: "It’s going to be…very difficult to attract talent to work in France…."…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON

Professor Guido Rasi, executive director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has told Manufacturing Chemist of his concerns about the availability of medicines in the European Union (EU).

Speaking in his office at EMA headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf, Professor Rasi said EMA wanted "to see what role we can play and what counsel we can give in respect of the problem of the (drug) shortages."…

BY ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA

SPAIN is agog at a wave of high-profile arrests in the busting of a Chinese-run money laundering ring estimated to have involved Euro EUR1.2 billion of dirty money. A key aim of the investigation was to stop the economy being distorted by the sale of cheap, fake designer goods through Chinese bazaars.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Last minute efforts are underway to rescue the European Union’s (EU) Erasmus student exchange programme which has been threatened, among other EU activities, by budget cuts ordered by the EU Council of Ministers. The key date is November 9th when representatives of the Council will conclude 21 days of negotiations

with delegates from the European Parliament in a "Conciliation Council" to see if funding can be restored.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

DESPITE its name, secondary packaging undoubtedly plays a primary role in the cosmetics and personal care industry: aside from holding and protecting primary packaging during transportation and handling, these boxes, containers and bags all have the important first role of attracting consumers.…

BY TENZING LAMSANG IN THIMPHU

BHUTAN is a small Himalayan nation striving to strengthen its financial infrastructure and transparency while pursuing happiness as an economic policy goal for some 710,000 inhabitants living in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

For a perspective on progress, Accountancy Futures talked to Jigmi Rinzin, a hugely influential Bhutanese and Asia accountancy voice as: a member of the Bhutanese parliament serving on several economic committees including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC); former chief auditor at Bhutan’s Royal Audit Authority (RAA); and secretary general of the Asia Regional Association of Public Accounts Committees (ARAPAC).…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

10 SEPTEMBER 2012

MOROCCO, Tunisia, and Egypt – respectively the sixth, seventh and sixteenth largest exporters of knitwear to the European Union’s 27 member states, as measured by sales value – have traditionally been competitive knitwear producers and exporters.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A TASTIER, healthier and cheaper meat alternative is being designed for American soldiers to eat in combat, its developers claim. Three parties – the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, the Department of Defense’s Combat Feeding Directorate (CFD) and US integrated food processor FPL Food – are collaborating on the jerky-type product.…