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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CENTRALISED and simplified European Union (EU) procedure for granting recognition of seafarer training certificates issued by non-EU countries has been tabled by the European Commission. It wants to prevent Member States from having to assess individual certificates that allow non-EU seafarers to work on board EU ships.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez water company and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMMENTS are being sought on proposed reforms to global guidelines on the operation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems. They have been drawn up by the world food standards body Codex Alimentarius, with particular focus being thrown on adapting the advice to the needs of small and new businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved some wide-ranging reforms to EU textile trade regulations – noted last year by Textile Month – covering the import of samples and the imposition of possible safeguard duties on Chinese imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JUST as a punch-drunk boxer cannot resist another slug in the ring, the Indian government is refusing to throw in the towel in its interminably long World Trade Organisation dispute with the European Union over Brussels’ anti-dumping duties on bed-linen from India.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL trade in gold has “considerable vulnerability to being exploited for money laundering,” according to a report released by the world’s lead organisation in fighting the processing of dirty money, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). This wing of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has highlighted these problems in a recent report on Money Laundering Typologies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has highlighted ways in which tobacco companies worldwide ease the pain caused to its workers when they lose their jobs through global downsizing. A recent ILO report, called Employment Trends in the Tobacco Sector: Challenges and Prospects analyses how the use of better technology and cheaper labour in developing countries has resulted in the loss of jobs in richer countries, despite increases in production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRINKS industry giants are meeting with the World Health Organisation (WHO) later this month (February 12) to try and forge a global policy on lessening the health damage caused by alcohol. The meeting follows informal discussions over the past six months; companies attending the meeting manufacture more than half of all alcohol sold.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF accountants want to give really useful advice to their clients that applies almost anywhere in the developed world, they should tell them to get married and have kids.

That would be the most logical conclusion that could be drawn from the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publication on tax, “Taxing Wages.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSURANCE sector may be so vulnerable to money laundering that the subject is probably worth in depth additional inquiries, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said. It has released a report on Money Laundering Typologies that concludes the sector may be as vulnerable to organised criminals seeking to conceal illegal funds, as the financial securities sector.…