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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.…
TEXTILE COATINGS EVOLVING IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS TO MEET NEW CHALLENGES
In the modern textile industry, coating, surface modification and laminating are the key means to tailor textiles and nonwovens to create functional products for specific, often high-performance, applications.
Such techniques have offered the sector potential advantages as it entered uncharted terrain in 2020, being at the forefront in humankind’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.…
EU AND UK ATTEMPT TO EASE DISRUPTION FROM BREXIT DIVORCE THROUGH DETAILED AVIATION COOPERATION AGREEMENTS
WHILE the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) will bring significant change to civil aviation across Europe, extensive air industry provisions within the 1,256-page EU/UK trade and cooperation agreement agreed on Christmas Eve, means that significant disruption has been avoided.…
COVID-19 PUSHES SMALL IRISH BUSINESSES TO THE LIMIT – BUT VIABLE FIRMS HAVE BEEN DIGITISING ACCOUNTS TO SAVE MONEY
The COVID-19 pandemic has decimated revenues at many Irish small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) but it could also prove a crucial period in the embrace of digital technology by firms. Irish SMEs are facing a collective annual revenue shortfall (where income fell below expenditure) of between EUR10.3 and EUR11.7 billion in 2020 due to the virus, according to research by the Central Bank of Ireland.…
FINANCE MINISTERS BACK PLAN FOR EU-WIDE AML LAW AND SUPERVISOR
EUROPEAN Union (EU) finance ministers today (Nov 4) gave support to plans to create an EU-wide anti-money laundering (AML) supervisor and harmonised EU laws to tackle the crime.
The European Commission announced in May that it plans to create “a single EU rulebook” to tackle money laundering and terrorism financing, with more reliance on a mandatory regulation than more flexible directives and a new coordination mechanism for national Finance Intelligence Units (FIU).…