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NEW COMMISSION MUST KEEP EU FOOD SECTOR COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE, SAY INDUSTRY EXPERTS
The new European Commission (2024-2029) taking office on December 1, 2024, under reappointed Commission president Ursula von der Leyen should use its term of office to enable a strong, competitive agri-food chain. That was the message of European Union (EU) food industry experts speaking to Just Food this week.…
EU HITS CHINA-BUILT BEVS WITH TARIFFS UP TO 35.3% OVER STATE SUBSIDIES
The European auto sector is uneasy about the 35.3% countervailing duties that the European Union (EU) has imposed on China-built BEVs on top of the standard 10% import tariff. While they were imposed in response to what the EU executive, the European Commission, claims are unfair state subsidies throughout Chinese supply chains that undercut the bloc’s own European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has declined to comment.…
EU ROUND UP – OLAF AND EPPO COLLBORATION IS KEY TARGET OF NEW EU ANTI-FRAUD COMMISSIONER
Promoting collaboration between the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) will be a key priority of the new EU budget, anti-fraud and public administration Commissioner once he takes office, probably on December 1.
Poland’s Piotr Serafin, a former cabinet head for past European Council president and now Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, performed effectively at his European Parliament confirmation hearing on November 7, and should be confirmed as Commissioner.…
MOLDOVA’S REAFFIRMED PRO-EUROPEAN TRAJECTORY COULD BOOST ITS CLOTHING SECTOR
The victory of pro-European Moldovan leader President Maia Sandu in the November 3 national election presents significant potential for the country’s clothing and textile industry. Positioned between Romania and Ukraine, Moldova has long been influenced by Russia but has applied to join the European Union (EU).…
TECHNICAL ROUND UP – ISSB FLAGS IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS WITH FIRST TWO STANDARDS
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is considering a report highlighting difficulties in implementing its first two standards, with board members to consider whether they need amending. The paper focuses especially on problems linked to IFRS S2 on climate-related disclosures, such as concluding paragraphs being “unclear and [that] appear contradictory” to requirements in IFRS S2 regarding disclosure of “scope 3 category 15 GHG emissions”, for example.…
EU TO GET ANTI-FRAUD COMMISSIONER FOR FIRST TIME IN 10 YEARS
The European Union (EU) is to get an anti-fraud commissioner in the new European Commission set to take over on December 1 (2024), a position that has not been appointed since 2014. The job has been given to Polish Commissioner designate Piotr Serafin, currently acting permanent representative of Poland to the EU, within the second term team of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.…
DESPITE LATENT CHALLANGES, TANZANIA TOBACCO LEAF PRODUCTION TO EXPAND
Tanzania is now Africa’s second-largest raw tobacco producer after Zimbabwe, according to the country’s agriculture minister Hussein Bashe and plans are underway to increase production and leaf processing capacity by encouraging more small-scale farmers to engage in contractual tobacco commercial farming.…
TECHNICAL ROUND UP – EU MEMBER STATES FAIL TO IMPLEMENT MANDATED EUROPEAN SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING
European Union (EU) member states are failing to implement mandatory sustainability reporting rules imposed by the EU’s corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), the European Commission has concluded. It has opened infringement procedures against 17 of the 27 EU countries saying they have failed to properly write the directive into their national legislation: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Spain.…
EU ROUND UP – ROMANIA TOPS LIST OF EU INSTITUTIONAL FRAUD DISCOVERY SAYS NEW BRUSSELS REPORT
Romania uncovered EUR419 million’s worth of fraud associated with European Union (EU) spending programmes in 2023, detailed reports issued by the European Commission have revealed. The major spike in swindles, far above levels reported by other EU member states, were inflated especially by two sets of swindles associated with the EU Cohesion Fund, the bloc’s main regional development scheme, each accounting for around EUR168 million (2).…
EPPO BUDGET CONSTRAINTS THREATEN VAT FRAUD CRACKDOWN
Budget constraints are threatening the ability of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) to continue investigating VAT fraud, especially as it expands to take on newcomers Poland and Sweden this year, the Luxembourg-based office is warning. The EPPO College (1), a management board composed of the European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Kövesi, and prosecutors from the now 24 participating member states – has been pushing for a much bigger budget as the agency’s workload rises.…