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While the new European Union (EU)-UK trade deal delivering the post-Brexit trading relationship between Britain and the EU has preserved a good measure of free trade for food and drink, the agreement introduces fresh red tape that maybe costly.

The deal allows for quota and duty free trades in food and drink between the EU and the UK.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and the UK are building a new energy trading relationship after striking the Christmas Eve EU-UK trade agreement that underpinned Britain’s final and full withdrawal from the EU on January 1.

This deal has extensive energy provisions, with the goal of ensuring EU electricity and gas suppliers can still export to the UK, and vice versa, through existing interconnectors.…

COVID-19 has been tough for all Nigerian higher education institutions, their staff and students, but one bright spark has been the fact that universities have developed remote learning capacities that will stand them in good stead for the future.

One university that has used Covid-19 to evaluate and improve its remote learning systems is the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), a public university based in Ife, east of Ibadan.…

WHILE the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) will bring significant change to civil aviation across Europe, extensive air industry provisions within the 1,256-page EU/UK trade and cooperation agreement agreed on Christmas Eve, means that significant disruption has been avoided.…

The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain is kicking off 2021 with the grand opening of its new airport passenger terminal, a 210,000 square metre (sqm) building that is four times the size of the existing facility. Following its official opening on January 28, the terminal will be capable of processing 130,000 air traffic movements a year, up from 95,500 in 2019, and will have a handling capacity of 4,700 bags an hour. …

THE NEW trade and cooperation agreement struck on Christmas Eve by the European Union (EU) and the UK will preserve significant cooperation on anti-fraud and anti-money laundering matters. Keith Nuthall reports.

CRIME prevention managers and security officials within major companies will be relieved that there has been any agreement at all between the UK and the EU, as the transition period binding Britain to European law expired on January 1.…

BRITISH and European Union (EU) confectioners must take care to ensure their products meet new origin rules if they want them covered by the duty free goods provisions of the new EU/UK trade agreement struck on Christmas Eve.

The 1,256-page deal includes complex and comprehensive origin rules, such as for chocolate, which can be deemed made in the EU and Britain if all dairy, eggs and honey used are sourced locally, as well as at least 40% of grains, malt, starches and wheat, (which must also not exceed 30% of costs).…

THE EUROPEAN and British dairy sectors are holding their breath, waiting to see if their producers can cope with the rules of origin, plus sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) red tape requirements required for UK-European Union (EU) dairy trades under the new EU-UK trade agreement.…

LUXEMBOURG may be a small country, but it is big in dairy, especially milk – with its other main products cheese, butter, butteroil and cream. Growth in the dairy sector of this Grand Duchy, similar in size to the UK country of Dorset and slightly smaller than the US state of Rhode Island, is continuing – even during the market disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.…

WITH Brexit out of the way, as far forging as forging a trade agreement with the UK is concerned, the clear priority of the current European Commission is its European Green Deal policy, which will significantly impact Europe’s energy sector. One strand of this ambitious plan to deliver European sustainability and climate-change neutrality by 2050 is energy efficiency.…