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CERN-BASED PROJECT WILL USE PARTICILE PHYSICS ANALYSIS METHODS TO DETEC FRAUD
A NEW collaborative research project could lead to identification and prediction of fraudulent commodities markets trading by using particle physics technology currently deployed in the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator built underneath Switzerland and France, near Geneva. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has teamed up with the Commodity Risk Management Expertise Center (CORMEC) – joint initiative of the Netherlands’ Wageningen University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as Wageningen University operating alone, to use advanced data analytics from particle physics to help protect commodity and financial markets under their ‘HighLo’ project.…
LEGAL ACTION AGAINST EIGHT COUNTRIES FOR 5AMLD NON-COMPLIANCE
The European Commission has launched infringement proceedings against eight countries over their failure to write the European Union’s (EU) fifth anti-money laundering directive (5AMLD) into national law by the January 10, 2020 deadline. The EU executive on February 12 sent letters of formal notice, the first stage in EU legal procedures, to Cyprus, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain for not having notified any 5AMLD implementation measures.…
CONTAMINATION A MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR RECYCLING SAY EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS INNOVATORS
WITH demand for plastic recycling soaring like never before, European plastics companies have told Sustainable Plastics how they use innovation and expertise to maximise are environmental efficiency and output yields. “You’d be amazed what dirt we find in pure product waste,” Jack Snijders, director of Germany’s CIFRA Recycling GmbH, told reporters during a plant visit.…
THE NETHERLANDS IS PAVING THE WAY TO USE HYDROGEN AS A CLEAN ENERGY CARRIER
Europe’s first large-scale green hydrogen plant moved closer to reality in January (2020) when a proposed electrolysis project in the Netherlands won EUR11 million funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU), a European Commission/industry partnership supporting hydrogen technology innovation.…
GERMANY DEVELOPS NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING GOOD PRACTICE – A CASE STUDY
Unterweser Nuclear Plant (KKU) in Northern Germany went into service in 1978 and with 1,425MW gross electricity output, the pressurised water reactor (PWR) plant was once world champion in terms of generated electricity.
Having booked an impressive lifetime total of 305 billion KWh, KKU went out of service in 2011 after the political leadership in Berlin reacted to Japan’s Fukushima disaster that year by ordering a nuclear phase-out before plants were due to end operations.…
CARBON CAPTURE UTILISATION AND STORAGE PROJECTS GROW AS INDUSTRY INCREASINGLY VALUES THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO PARIS AGREEMENT GOALS
There is broad consensus among energy and environmental experts that carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems built at commercial scale must play a key role if governments are to achieve their 2015 COP21 (Paris Agreement) ambitions for limiting carbon emissions. “All credible scenario modelling shows that CCS will be essential to meeting the targets set by the Paris Agreement”, commented a report co-ordinated by the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) for a European Gas Regulatory Forum meeting, staged last June (2019).…
EU AND WTO REGULATORY ROUNDUP – BRUSSELS LOOKS TO FOOD AND DRINK FREE TRADE IN FINAL STATUS DEAL WITH UK
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has set out plans for a future trading relationship with the UK after the current transitional period, where Britain follows EU rules, expires on December 31 – it includes unfettered free trade in food and drink products, without tariffs and without restrictive quotas.…
DRINKING WATER TEXTILE PRODUCT FINISHING CHEMICALS UNDER REVIEW
Materials and chemical manufacturers and in the textile finishing sector have been asked to propose chemicals to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) that can safely be used in materials that can come into contact with drinking water. The European Union (EU) agency has duties under a revised EU drinking water directive (https://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-drink/legislation_en.html),…
ECHA CHECKS HAZARDOUS DYES
Dye and other textile chemical finishing traders selling their products via the Internet into the European Union (EU) will be subjected to inspections from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in 2020, amidst concern that online chemical sellers maybe breaching EU safety controls.…
PORTUGAL’S INNOVATIVE TEXTILE SECTOR IS ENTHUSIATIC ADOPTER OF DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING AS IT SEEKS TO ADD VALUE TO BOOST EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
PORTUGAL’S digital textile printing sector generates sales of USD164 million annually (as of 2019), according to analysists BlueWeave Consulting & Research Pvt Ltd, which predicts it is poised to grow, benefiting from its close proximity to European customers, at a time when Europe’s market for digitally printed textiles is booming, with the technology in increasing high regard.…