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ASIA REGULATORY ROUND UP – HK STOCK EXCHANGE, CENTRAL BANK AND FINANCE MINISTRY REFORMS TO OFFER GREEN ACCOUNTING WORK
HONG Kong accountants may see an increase in demand for non-financial assessments, with the HK Stock Exchange consulting on proposed new environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. It is proposing introducing mandatory disclosure requirements to include board statements considering ESG issues; and what reporting principles are used to develop company ESG reports.…
MEPS APPROVE WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION DIRECTIVE
The European Parliament has backed a ground-breaking directive that would protect whistleblowers European Union (EU)-wide by 591 votes in favour and 29 against. Currently only 10 of the EU’s 28 member states (France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden and the UK) have national legislation that effectively protects whistleblowers, according to the European Commission.…
IRELAND’S WHISTLEBLOWING REGIME TO BE STRENGTHENED BY EU DIRECTIVE
IRELAND’S whistleblowing regime is to be strengthened to comply with a new European Union (EU) whistleblowing directive that was approved in April (2019) by the European Parliament. Reforms must be in place by 2021 and will build on Ireland’s Protected Disclosures Act 2014 – itself a step forward legally for Irish whistleblowing, according to Professor Kate Kenny, of the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI).…
PLANNED EU RULING MAY REGULATE TATTOO INKS FOR THE FIRST TIME ACROSS EUROPE TO AVOID HEALTH RISKS
BODY artists in Europe may have to reconsider the pigments that they use in future, with the European Union (EU) drafting new rules that could regulate what chemicals can be used in tattoo inks. While today 12 out of every 100 Europeans are tattooed or have some sort of permanent cosmetic treatment, experts are increasingly concerned that these skin colouring agents may contain hazardous substances, known or suspected to have adverse health effects causing cancer, allergies or mutations.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION APPROVES TAKE OVER OF GATWICK AIR[ORT BY FRANCE’S VINCI AIRPORTS
THE EUROPEAN Commission today (March 18) gave competition law approval for France’s VINCI Airports to take over control of London Gatwick Airport from current owner Ivy Topco Ltd, a Cayman Islands registered company.
The European Union (EU) executive, acting as the EU’s senior competition authority, approved the deal which would see VINCI acquiring 50.01% of the issued share capital of Ivy Topco.…
WELLNESS CONFECTIONERY PRODUCTS GROW PRESENCE AS CONSUMERS BECOME MORE HEALTH CONSCIOUS
While the confectionery industry is traditionally associated with high sugar levels and unhealthy indulgence, market research indicates that efforts to also appeal to consumers with a growing interest in health and wellness trends are paying off. According to UK-based market researcher GlobalData, in 2016 alone USD3.7 billion worth of confectionery with functional or fortified attributes was sold globally.…
MORE TECHNOLOGY, BETTER DATA AND INTERNAL CONTROLS ESSENTIAL TO FIGHT FRAUD, SAY EXPERTS
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should make more use of forensic accountants to combat fraud within its institutions, experts have underlined to Accounting & Business. The cost of fraud to EU spending programmes and revenue collection is eye wateringly high – costing more than EUR9 billion (USD10 billion) between 2002-2017 according to a January 2019 Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project report).…
IRISH ACCOUNTANTS SAY THEY CAN MAKE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MORE EFFICIENT, IN WAKE OF NEW HOSPITAL SCANDAL
Few issues give Irish politicians as much grief as the health service. Perennial budget overruns and waiting lists have ruined several ministerial careers. But what should have been a good news story, the building of a new National Paediatric Hospital, in Dublin, has done perhaps the most damage.…
UK AND IRELAND SPEAK A COMMON LANGUAGE ON AML/CFT – BUT WILL BREXIT BRING DISCORD?
With their large financial services industries and open economies, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are conspicuously exposed to money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risks.
Tough anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) policies are at the heart of their respective financial services regulations, yet both countries are regularly forced to fend off criticisms that they are not doing enough to tackle these problems.…
IRELAND’S BEEF PLAN TO BOOST PRODUCER AUTONOMY IS FAST ATTRACTING SUPPORTERS
Beef Plan – a movement put together by Irish suckler and beef farmers to fetch them better prices and more autonomy – is gaining momentum, the group’s spokesperson has told GlobalMeatNews.
The project that kicked off last September (2018), outside the structures of traditional farming organisation, and projected to last until 2025, is all about “getting control back to farmers” from the big beef buyers, empowering them to make good business decisions, said Beef Plan spokesperson Eamon Corley.…