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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

India – US$692 billion economy, 10th largest in the world and growing at 8% annually – has finally put an official anti-money laundering public organisation in place. Its Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), as required by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act-2002 (PMLA), which came into force in July 2005, has become fully operational.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTION

WE’RE barely a third of the way through 2006 but it’s already clear that the year is going to be a hugely important one for European Union (EU) legislation affecting both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GENERAL Motors BV (formerly General Motors Nederland BV and Opel Nederland BV), of the Netherlands, has lost a second appeal against being fined for preventing their dealers exporting to other European Union (EU) member countries. The European Court of Justice has confirmed GM BV must pay Euro 35.47 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRUSSELS’ usually well-paid Eurocrats are accustomed to taxis, first-class air travel and even chauffeurs, so environment-inspired European Commission plans to buy bicycles for its 22,000 staff may come as a shock. Cycle paths and parking spots will be installed, with the Commission investing in changing rooms, so that pedalling officials are not sweaty and smelly when they attend high powered meetings.…

BY JANE MOIR, in Hong Kong

CONSTRUCTION is on the up, people are eagerly buying homes, cars are being churned out at a rapid pace and the 2008 Beijing Olympics are just around the corner. The demand for paint and coatings in China should never have been better.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRUSSELS’ usually well-paid Eurocrats are accustomed to taxis, first-class air travel and even chauffeurs, so environment-inspired European Commission plans to buy bicycles for its 22,000 staff may come as a shock. Cycle paths and parking spots will be installed, with the Commission investing in changing rooms, so that pedalling officials are not sweaty and smelly when they attend high powered meetings.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

IN the rapidly expanding world of nanotechnology (a nano is one billionth of a metre), more and more applications for the adhesives industry are being developed. Many of these inventions are sophisticated, even futuristic in scope, although bizarrely some advances are linked to natural phenomena, with the sector owing a lot of the latest groundbreaking research to the humble gecko.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CAR importing member states of the European Union (EU) should not demand that VAT be charged on the cost of pre-registering vehicles, says a European Court of Justice advocate general. Juliane Kokott has formally suggested that registration tax "is not…understood as being in the taxable amount of VAT", under the EU’s sixth VAT directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-research project is developing small-scale hydrogen generators, which could be operated by homes and businesses to refuel hydrogen-autos. The aim of the Hyvolution scheme is to create practical technology that could form part of a sustainable and widespread refuelling network, something that is essential for hydrogen fuel-cell transport to take off.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

NON-metallic minerals, long considered the poor relations in the extended family of industrial minerals, are suddenly popular again.

They have found favour once more because of their molecular structures and their usefulness in the rapidly advancing world of nanotechnology.…