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TEMPORARY SUPPORT MEASURES ESSENTIAL TO HELP TEXTILE COMPANIES SURVIVE ENERGY CRISIS
TEXTILE companies will face deindustrialisation, relocation outside Europe and bankruptcy if they do not receive aid, including tax breaks or a gas price cap to help them deal with rising energy costs, European textile companies and governments have told WTiN.
The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex on September 16 in a statement also signed by Eurocoton (the European Federation of the Cotton and Allied Textiles Industries), CIRFS (the European Man-Made Fibres Association), ETSA (the European Textile Services Association) and EDANA, representing non-wovens producers, welcomed European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement of initiatives aimed to tackle the energy crisis.…
IRISH ACCOUNTANTS HELP CLIENTS NEGOTIATE COMPLEX GENDER PAY GAP CALCULATIONS
Irish accountants are actively helping clients understand the country’s Gender Pay Gap Information Act, in force from May 31 (1), requiring firms to publicly report gender pay gaps – and action to solve them – in their organisations.
Companies and advisors are concerned about the tight June-to-December timescale for reporting pay data, said Aoife Newton who leads KPMG’s gender pay gap (GPG) reporting services: “The timeline for reporting is very limited.…
RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE MAKES EMERGING ML RISK LESS PREDICTABLE
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia risks undermining AML/CFT, said FATF in its post-plenary communiqué issued in March. (1) But how this unprovoked military action will disrupt the policing and detection of dirty money remains to be seen, noted Carol Van Cleef, chair of the blockchain and digital assets practice, at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, Washington DC.…
BREXIT INCREASES COST AND COMPLEXITY FOR FOOD BUSINESSES, SAY EXPERTS
AS the one-year anniversary (January 31, 2022) (WRONG) following the end of UK commitments to follow European Union (EU) law and treaties has just passed, food and drink companies have little positive to say about the extra red tape that has followed.…
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP LEDGERS BEING CREATED – BUT NOT WITHOUT SERIOUS TEETHING TROUBLES
Britain’s open register of beneficial ownership was groundbreaking worldwide but its effectiveness as a bulwark against money laundering is being debated, even as both the European Union (EU) and the US move ahead at varying pace to replicate the system. The question of whether BO registers should be open or closed is one that is being discussed in countries around the world.…
IRELAND’S MEDTECH SECTOR GROWS, WITH GOVERNMENT OFFERING WIDESPREAD SUPPORTS
Ireland’s burgeoning medtech sector has supported changes in the latest Irish government budget, announced on October 12, which could boost investment and start-ups in this globally important Irish industry. The Fianna Fail-Fine Gail-Green coalition unveiled reforms to the country’s Employment Investment Incentive (EII) scheme, which grants tax exemptions to investors in industries such as medtech.…
EUROPEAN COURT EXTENDS PROTECTION OFFERED TO PROTECTED TRADITIONAL DRINKS NAMES IN THE EU EUROPEAN COURT EXTENDS PROTECTION OFFERED TO PROTECTED TRADITIONAL DRINKS NAMES IN THE EU
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadened the potential impact from European Union (EU) protected designations of origin (PDOs) by ruling national courts can decide they have been breached if a trading name “evokes” an association with a protected drink (or food).…
WHEN IS A LOBBYING SCANDAL REALLY CORRUPTION?
The question of when and whether lobbying is ethically questionable or even a criminal bribe is a complex issue, with rules varying according to jurisdictions. Often, actions that are politically embarrassing, are definitely not bribes, or indeed unlawful in anyway. For example, on September 15, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney survived a no-confidence vote in the Dáil Éireann over his handling of the appointment of former minister for children Katherine Zappone as his country’s ‘Special Envoy to the UN on Freedom of Opinion and Expression’.…
WHEN IS A LOBBYING SCANDAL REALLY CORRUPTION?
The question of when and whether lobbying is ethically questionable or even a criminal bribe is a complex issue, with rules varying according to jurisdictions. Often, actions that are politically embarrassing, are definitely not bribes, or indeed unlawful in anyway. For example, on September 15, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney survived a no-confidence vote in the Dáil Éireann over his handling of the appointment of former minister for children Katherine Zappone as his country’s ‘Special Envoy to the UN on Freedom of Opinion and Expression’.…
IRELAND’S FISH FARMING EXPERTISE GIVES INDUSTRY EDGE IN GLOBAL MARKETS
The May (2021) acquisition by Irish animal health products firm Bimeda, of Seattle, USA-based AquaTactics Fish Health was low profile, but significant in highlighting Irish ambitions in the global aquaculture industry. The sector is growing globally, with production increasing to replace declining wild fishery stocks, in many cases fished to their maximum sustainable levels.…