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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government’s alleged failure to adequately implement a directive giving lawyers the right to easily register and work in Ireland has led the European Commission to threaten the levying of potentially enormous daily recurring fines.

Brussels has sent Dublin a legal final warning letter that tells it to quickly comply with a European Court of Justice ruling of last December that it should transpose directive 98/5/EC on the establishment of lawyers onto its statute book.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed the results of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference, saying it earmarked sufficient radio spectrum for the EU’s new Galileo global positioning satellite project. Brussels wanted the conference to ensure it could commend enough frequency to avoid interference problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is lending US$17.5 million in INDRupees to Indian textile company Alok Industries Ltd, allowing the Mumbai (Bombay)-based company to expand and modernise its knitting facilities and meet growing demand from domestic and international customers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out a gloomy message: we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REFORM of the world’s anti-money laundering campaign is continuing apace. Defying critics of its alliance with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Financial Action Task Force of the OECD has issued a revised set of its key 40 Recommendations to fight the crime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is lending US$22 million loan to a Chinese pork producer. The Jilin Huazheng Agricultural Development Company Ltd will increase its pig breeding farms, upgrade slaughtering capacity, and build a new processing plant for ready-to-eat packaged meats.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOR the non ferrous metals industries, the formal enlargement of the EU next May will not be an overnight sensation but rather the end of a ten-year process during which producers in eastern and central Europe have progressively adapted themselves to the western European model.…

Keith Nuthall
COUNTERFEIT textile products are being used by international terrorist groups as a key mans to finance their operations, Interpol secretary general Ronald K Noble has warned governments and law enforcement agencies. In documents for his testimony to the US House of Representatives committee on international relations, Mr Noble said the problem might become more serious and called for a partnership between industry and police, to combat it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Group for Anti-Corruption Coordination (IGAC) has been created by a conference staged by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The new body will be a clearing-house for good practice and intelligence on corruption, to be shared with other UN agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations concerned with fighting corruption.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWEGIAN consumer legislation that bans the sale of life assurance contracts within Norway, unless policyholders are charged an upfront fee covering all completion costs, is being challenged as illegal under European law. Oslo has been sent a final warning letter from the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority, threatening action at the EFTA Court, unless Norway promises to dismantle the system and replace it with something less draconian.…