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PACKAGING WASTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved in principle tightening the EU packaging and packaging waste directive so that by 2008, Member States should recycle at least 50 per cent of metals found in packaging waste.…
EU ROUND UP
KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…
WASTE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has released a comprehensive report promoting good practice within Europe’s waste industry, in a bid to ease governments’ reliance on landfilling, which it considers too dominant. Case Studies on Waste Minimisation Practices in Europe focuses on 10 initiatives undertaken in Europe during the 1990’s to promote and encourage waste minimisation.…
IRISH CIGARETTE BAN
BY MONICA DOBIE
IRELAND will ban smoking in all public places including pubs and restaurants from January 2004 onwards. The announcement came as Ireland’s Office of Tobacco Control released a study which found that people who work in smoky environments are up to 30 per cent more likely to develop heart disease and cancer because of passive smoking.…
OECD TAX REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF accountants want to give really useful advice to their clients that applies almost anywhere in the developed world, they should tell them to get married and have kids.
That would be the most logical conclusion that could be drawn from the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publication on tax, “Taxing Wages.”…
TAX REGIMES - EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) Competition Commissioner Mario Monti is to ask his colleagues on the European Commission to ban two special tax regimes – in Netherlands and Belgium – while allowing a threatened taxation system in Ireland to continue.…
WASTE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has released a comprehensive report promoting good practice within Europe’s waste industry, in a bid to ease governments’ reliance on landfilling, which it considers too dominant. Case Studies on Waste Minimisation Practices in Europe focuses on 10 initiatives undertaken in Europe during the 1990’s to promote and encourage waste minimisation.…
NATIONAL FRAUDS FEATURE
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
BRITAIN’S National Health Service (NHS) is exposed to an estimated annual fraud loss of pounds 2 billion each year.…
INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government is coming under intense political pressure to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling that it should implement the European Union (EU) directive on integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) in Northern Ireland. The European Commission is threatening to launch legal proceedings that could result in Britain receiving heavy daily recurring fines.…
BSE CASES - IRELAND
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE NUMBER of recorded BSE cases in Ireland reached a record high in 2002 with 333 cases compared to 246 in 2001. However, the Irish Department of Agriculture claimed the underlying trend was more positive, with the number recorded since the start of August 2002 down 32 per cent on the corresponding 2001 period.…