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The fact that AML/CFT is expensive is widely appreciated by governments and international organisations, but they still support policies and programmes that cost a considerable proportion of the USD274.1 billion that LexisNexis Risk Solutions says is lavished on financial crime compliance (1).…

Deposit return systems (DRS) promoted by European Union (EU) regulation are the best way to help EU can manufacturers achieve high recycling and collection of quality materials, EU (European Union) can sector experts told the March 28-30 Packaging Waste and Sustainability Forum, in Brussels.  …

The high winds buffeting Ireland, blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean, are providing the island country with a solution to ease its reputation as a laggard in climate action policies required by international agreement and European Union (EU) politics. (1) .…

Growing online sales of tobacco products within the European Union (EU) are boosting industry revenues, despite increasing sales restrictions, including some outright bans on internet purchases of tobacco products. The German market and consumer data platform Statista foresees 2.5% of the total USD170 billion [EUR160 million] sales generated by the tobacco sector – all products – within 2023 will come from online sales, meaning USD4.25 billion [EUR4 billion].…

Transparency International warned that “conflict creates opportunities for corruption and subverts governments’ efforts to stop it” in unveiling the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 31, scoring 180 countries worldwide on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).…

Transparency International (TI) has warned that “conflict creates opportunities for corruption and subverts governments’ efforts to stop it” when unveiling its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 31, scoring 180 countries worldwide on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) with the average 43.…

Biomass is under threat as the leading source of renewable energy in the European Union (EU) under controversial proposals to cap use of primary woody biomass and end subsidies by the end of 2026. Bioenergy Europe figures (1) show that 69.6% of biomass energy feedstock used in Europe comes from woody biomass, which are forestry and wood industry residues with the remaining feedstock sourced 18.3% from agricultural biomass and 12.1% biowaste.…

US and Ireland-based autonomous vehicle (AV) technology supplier Aptiv is one of many AV initiatives using the Asian city state of Singapore as a testbed for such vehicles, related sensors and relevant electronic components. The country’s proactivity on AVs has led to four generations of autonomous vehicles being approved for eventual use by Singapore transport authorities, which include models from Audi and BMW.…

Britain’s Brexit from the European Union (EU), in full from December 31, 2020, may have freed the UK government from having to follow EU tobacco legislation, except for Northern Ireland, which remains within the EU’s single market for goods, but the tobacco sector is struggling to see benefits.…

Factory digitisation, including the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, has increased big data availability by “at least two orders of magnitude from what was available a couple of decades ago,” said UK-based AI-driven predictive maintenance software provider Senseye chief technology officer and co-founder Robert Russell.…