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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF has helped uncover three rules-of-origin frauds costing EU coffers millions of Euros. In one case, an OLAF-German police inquiry has uncovered the loss of Euro 50 million in duties by the illicit rerouting of Chinese energy-saving lamps via Vietnam, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka and Tunisia to evade 66.1% anti-dumping duties on China-made lamps; Euro 7 million of avoided taxation has been recovered.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is heading for a clash with the United States over its use of passenger name record data, with the EU justice Commissioner Franco Frattini pledging to get tough in negotiations over replacing the current deal by July.…

BY MARK ROWE

SALES of olive oil in the United States are likely to be boosted by the decision of the Food and Drug Administration to approve in part a health claim for olive oil submitted by the North American Olive Oil Association (NAOOA).…

BY DINAH GARDNER, in Beijing, MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

GLOSSY GANODERMA is a crusty, yellowish brown fungus, the size of a football. It’s been used for centuries in China as a traditional medicine to cure everything from deafness to hemorrhoids.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

EUROPEAN manufacturers have been given the go-ahead to use explosive chemicals as igniters for airbags after a new European Union (EU) law had threatened to put them out of business. The new legislation drawn up by the European Commission in Brussels last year (2005) was principally aimed at the fireworks industry and laid down new regulations to ensure safety in handling, storage and transportation binding across the 25 member countries.…

FROM DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has taken a lot of flack in recent years, accused of being slow, over-aggressive, secretive and even sloppy. But it has a tough job, made harder by the unwillingness of some EU member states to publicise their management of the EU funds they handle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HAVING a crystal ball can be useful and profitable for businesses wanting to get ahead of the game and know what investments they may need to comply with future regulations and best practice?

One tactic is to exploit globalisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH global trade ever increasing, and the power of brands to generate massive profits made starkly clear with every company report, the counterfeiting of goods is one of international organised crime’s major boom areas. The European Commission has been researching the threat posed from around the world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has been successfully pushing the adoption of a 1968 convention harmonising road signs and signals into the former Soviet Union. Widely supported in western Europe, Kyrgyzstan has become the 54th contracting party to its Convention on Road Signs and Signals, leaving only Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign up in the ex-USSR.…