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BY DAVID HAWORTH

HUNGARY, which currently holds the European Union’s (EU’s) rotating presidency, made a little noticed promise in January to put organised crime well and truly on the EU agenda. Commercial Crime International attended a Brussels conference where senior figures admitted the EU’s response has been far too weak.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN the offices of the Czech Republic’s registry for the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading System (ETS) received a fake bomb threat on January 18, it was an annoying interruption for some Prague office workers. But when returning to their desks, they realised their real bomb had gone off in their computer terminals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

POLAND may struggle to issue free emissions trading permits for planned new coal-fired power stations, with the European Commission releasing rules saying only projects with construction projects under way before January 2009 could receive them.

The guidelines come in Brussels’ latest set of rules on releasing permits under the European Union (EU) emissions trading system for 2013-20.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is developing an innovative business model which can allow consumers to design and choose their own clothing online, with manufacturers shipping remotely-controlled bespoke work. The Euro 5.17 million Open Garments project aims to create a secure and practical electronic communications system delivering customer requirements to manufacturers, who can act on them swiftly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has welcomed the expansion of Poland’s gas sector. Assessing its energy sector, the IEA praised Poland for building an LNG terminal, expanding underground storage, extending gas transmission and distribution, increasing domestic gas production and exploring possible resources of unconventional gas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission may this year release proposals to reduce the vulnerability of the European Union’s (EU) emissions trading system (ETS) to fraud. Cyber-criminals launched a lucrative attack on its systems in January. How open is this ground-breaking system to fraud?…

BY MARK ROWE and E BLAKE BERRY

GIVEN Poland’s reputation as a reliable member of the international community, it is perhaps surprising Poland was (until 2009 at least) reckoned by the European Commission and the US Department of State to have one of the EU’s poorest records for tackling money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Switzerland food manufacturer and retailer Coop has been given permission by the European Commission to assume full ownership of Germany-based food wholesaler transGourmet (NOTE – CORRECT SPELLING). Coop has shared control with German retailer REWE. transGourmet claims to be Europe’s second largest cash-and-carry and food service company – turning over Euro EUR5.8 billion in 2009, employing 21,000 staff.transGourmetwholesales…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DENMARK’S meat major Danish Crown has been given permission by the European Commission to purchase German pig meat slaughtering company D&S Fleisch. Danish Crown, itself a pig meat specialist, saw the deal approved without conditions via a fast track, being "examined under the simplified merger review procedure", said the Commission – the European Union’s senior competition authority.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.…