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BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
YOU think the European Union (EU) is like the US – one big uniform market where prices are roughly the same wherever you buy? It is after all, legally and officially named the ‘Single European Market’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IMPLEMENTATION of the European Union’s (EU) Third Money Laundering Directive by Trust and Company Service Providers (TCSPs) has given rise to a number of difficulties across the 27 EU member states, all of them related in some way to the key issue of identifying the beneficial owner of funds.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A CENTRAL purpose of the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive (sometimes called 2MLD amongst officials) that came into effect in 2003 was to extend to estate agents, along with other similar professions, the anti-money laundering (AML) controls until then had applied only to banks and one or two other financial institutions.…

BY LARS RUGAARD, in Berlin
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) ambitious European Research Council (ERC) was launched this week (Tue and Wed 27/28-2) as the provider of what it’s founding ruling committee called the “Champion’s League of Researchers”. Armed with a Euro 7 billion budget from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme, the council is meant to provide researchers in the EU with innovation and competition stimuli, thus enhancing the EU’s research and economic performance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities could be forced by European Union (EU) waste laws to cleanse land polluted by spilled foul water, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has advised. Juliane Kokott said under the EU waste framework directive, utilities should “pump away the accumulated waste water, clear away the solid parts of the waste water which have stayed on the surface or…treat the soil affected.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has legally established the European Research Council (ERC) ahead of its launch in Berlin next week (Tuesday and Wednsday). Brussels formally agreed that the ERC would have a budget of Euro 7.5 billion over the next seven years, which will be spent on ground-breaking basic research, especially encouraging new researchers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are urging the London Olympic Delivery Authority and the London 2012 Organising Committee to be mindful of potential pitfalls when executing the building of venues and parks for the games.

Indeed, the ‘Greening the Games Campaign’ group, which is backed by the UK landscape and horticultural industry approves of the sustainability programme recently launched by the Olympics authority, but fears contractors’ bottom line may get in the way of reaching the environmental goals.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
A WORLDWIDE standard for automotive safety glazing may only be a few months away, now that suppliers have agreed on the content and wording.

The new draft standard was finalized at a January conference in Brussels under the umbrella of CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers), with representatives from the US, Japan, Canada, Belgium, France and Germany taking part.…

BY MARK ROWE
CLIMATE change is now widely accepted as taking place across the planet, with huge implications for all industries, and the energy sector is no exception. Predictions from expert weather organisations make unsettling reading: the long-range forecast is for extremes of temperatures and more violent weather, more often.…