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BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THERE is no more need to test healthy livestock in Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands and Spain to be 95% sure they are not affected by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a scientific report from by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has recommended.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

THE European Parliament’s special committee on organised crime is considering whether to recommend a European Union (EU)-wide definition of mafia-related crimes. Other draft anti-mafia proposals going through committee include finally pushing ahead with long-standing proposals to create an EU public prosecutor coordinating the defence of member states’ financial interests.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

STATE-of-the-art fraud detection and prevention tools are being developed worldwide, but while these work overtime to generate fraud alerts and flag suspicious behaviour, investigation and case management is struggling to cope with these new sophisticated technologies.

Douglas Russell, director of UK-based fraud and security risk management consultancy DFR Risk Management Ltd, agreed if there are insufficient skilled personnel to follow up alerts, then the full benefits of these systems cannot be realised: "While appropriate responses will vary depending upon what has been highlighted by the systems, best practice includes not only prioritising…high value/high volume fraud categories but also those incidents which may be considered novel or previously undetected," he said.…

BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING

THE LEADER of China’s meat industry has told the country’s annual national meat conference that his sector is starting to consolidate and move away from its past reliance on small businesses. China Meat Association (CMA) secretary general Chen Wei noted that only 20% of the country’s 10,000-plus slaughter houses were large in scale, with the rest "artisanal or unmechanised."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled competition concerns at Dublin Airport have made it likely to halt or demand conditions regarding the planned takeover of Ireland’s Aer Lingus by Ryanair. Brussels has announced an in depth probe into the merger plans by Ryanair of its publicly listed competitor, of which it already owns 29.82%.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; AND WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

A BOOST in export sales for European knitwear brands might be on the horizon, as a result of a projected free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Japan, with formal negotiations expected to begin by the end of the year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered the Irish government to recoup unfairly earned revenues from airlines dominating Irish airports after ruling illegal a departure tax penalising flights serving destinations 300km or more from Dublin. Passengers for these slots have been charged Euro EUR10 since 2009, while flights to destinations closer to the Irish capital have attracted just EUR2 in tax.…

BY MARK ROWE

THERE is consumer demand in Europe for making confectionery packaging more sustainable, but in the European Union (EU) manufacturers are motivated more in going green by EU legislation.

They are developing ways of reducing, reusing and recycling packaging, and changing its composition to help.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS; MICHAEL KOSMIDES; AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE DEBATE about whether compulsion or voluntarism best aids energy efficiency is one of the oldest in the electricity sectors: do we save more energy by being ordered to switch off the lights; or by being advised our bills will fall if we do?…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

Niyaz Ibrahim

* May 2011 to present – Auditor General of the Maldives

*May 2010 to present – member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

*August 2010 to present – Lecturer Villa College, the Maldives

*March 2010 to May 2011 – Chief Internal Auditor – Maldives Ports Limited

*November 2008 to January 2009 and June 2009 to February 2010 – Deputy Director General of Audit – Maldives Auditor General’s Office (AGO)

*September 2008 to Nov 2008 – Assistant Director General of Audit – AGO

*July 2004 to Sept 2007 – Assistant Auditor – Audit Office

*October 2000 to Sept 2002 – Accounts Officer Trainee – Audit Office

*July 2004 to Sep 2007 – Manager – Gothic Construction Private Limited

*July 2004 to present – Private practising (Auditing, accountancy, financial and management services)

*January 2009 to June 2009 – ACCA Professional Examinations: (FTC Kaplan, Singapore)

*September 2007 to September 2008 – MSc.…