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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has spoken out against a proposed Austrian law that might undermine its ability to probe transnational and national crime, through preventing its teams from seizing data that might compromise offenders.

This proposed legal amendment from Austria’s justice ministry would reserve the power to seize data and data storage devices in Austria to Austrian law enforcement.…

European Union (EU) member states have been adapting to the new legal guidance on access to their national registers of ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) following the November 2022 ruling (1) at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and a new EU directive published June 19 (2024).…

The only university of the self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, or Western Sahara, continues to teach and graduate students, despite the military stalemate that has persisted before and since its founding in 2012, which has left Morocco controlling 80% of the territory.…

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a legal bid to trim the power of cross-border criminal investigations launched within the European Union (EU) by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). The ECJ was asked to intervene in an Austrian case brought by

German traders accused of smuggling biodiesel into the EU.…

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has signalled that national judicial reviews of cross-border investigations by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) should be limited to procedural questions. During a cross-border investigation of a biodiesel fraud case, the EPPO’s European Delegated Prosecutor in Germany assigned the search and seizure of potentially incriminating documents and hardware to an assisting European Delegated Prosecutor in Austria, who in line with Austrian law obtained judicial warrants.…

Senior autonomous vehicle experts meeting in Europe have accepted that systems enabling fully autonomous private vehicles are unlikely to become comprehensive until 2050.

Moreover, the ITS European Congress 2023 (on ‘Intelligent Transportation Systems’) was told cooperation was needed to make universal transport autonomy a reality, with automakers working with regulators, transport ministries, researchers, navigation tech providers and other partners.…

Traceable pigments are increasingly being used as a favoured trackable method to help textile and garment companies prove that cellulosic fibres utilised in fabric and final products have been made according to high social and environmental sustainability standards. With regulation, non-financial reporting and green consumer demand pushing the industry towards using fabrics that are demonstrably sustainable, cellulosic fibres derived from wood pulp and other woody plants such as bamboo, have become more attractive as inputs.…

The European Union’s (EU) new ‘Women on Boards’ directive (1) is designed to force change in the EU’s director cohort by requiring that the ‘under-represented sex’ (which could be male on rare female-dominated boards) make up 40% of non-executive directors or 33% of all major company directors.…

The European textile industry is already working more sustainably but can do better, said Charlotte Denis, communications officer for the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP). Her comments are particularly valid as the platform is a key partner in the new two-year research project CISUTAC (Circular and Sustainable Textiles and Clothing – www.cisutac.eu),…

THE CURRENT global energy crisis and its attendant price rises have had “a dramatic impact on the profitability of many companies” in the textile and clothing sector, and a European Union (EU)-wide cap on gas prices is essential, Dirk Vantyghem, director general of the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex), has told WTiN.…