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TEMPORARY SUPPORT MEASURES ESSENTIAL TO HELP TEXTILE COMPANIES SURVIVE ENERGY CRISIS
TEXTILE companies will face deindustrialisation, relocation outside Europe and bankruptcy if they do not receive aid, including tax breaks or a gas price cap to help them deal with rising energy costs, European textile companies and governments have told WTiN.
The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex on September 16 in a statement also signed by Eurocoton (the European Federation of the Cotton and Allied Textiles Industries), CIRFS (the European Man-Made Fibres Association), ETSA (the European Textile Services Association) and EDANA, representing non-wovens producers, welcomed European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement of initiatives aimed to tackle the energy crisis.…
VAPE COMPANIES INNOVATE TO SURVIVE IN UNCERTAIN MARKETS
Major vaping players are investing in innovative solutions to offer healthier, more pleasant, and more eco-friendly products, trying to reshape a segment facing a growing number of restrictive laws worldwide.
According to the Dublin-based market researcher Research and Markets, “the global e-cigarette market reached a value of USD20.4 billion in 2021” and should reach USD30 billion by 2027 (1).…
NEW GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA – BUT WILL ROBUST AML/CFT REFORM FOLLOW?
Australia’s commitment to strengthen its anti-money laundering legislation is now an eight-year-old promise that has yet to be fulfilled. However, with a change in government in May 2022, with the Labor Party taking power after nine years of government by the right-centre Liberal-National Coalition, there is renewed hope that reform could finally be delivered.…
UKRAINE WAR CREATES CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOLDOVAN DAIRY SECTOR
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created major challenges for the dairy industry in its neighbour Moldova, but should this eastern European country survive the war intact, its dairy producers may have a sustainable future. The shock caused by the invasion has pushed Moldova’s pro-European Union (EU) government even closer to the EU, in which next door Romania, whose language is spoken by most Moldovans, is a key member state.…
MAJOR C$1.5 BILLION INVESTMENT IN BATTERY PRECURSORS WELCOMED BY ONTARIO AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS
The economic development minister of Canada’s automotive industry hub Ontario has welcomed today’s (July 13) announcement by Belgium’s Umicore to sink Canadian dollars CAD1.5 billion (USD1.15 billion) investment to build a cathode and precursor materials manufacturing plant.
It will be near Kingston, eastern Ontario, with operations scheduled to begin in 2025.…
EU COUNTRIES LAGGING ON BUILDING PUBLIC UBO REGISTERS
European Union (EU) member states are lagging in compliance with a requirement in the fifth anti-money laundering directive (5 AMLD) (1) to create public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers by January 10, 2020. A European Commission webpage (2) on 5AMLD compliance last updated June 2 (2022) shows 12 governments are facing infringement proceedings either because they have not adopted legislation writing the directive fully into national law or because they have implemented it incorrectly.…
EU UBO REGISTER IMPLEMENTATION TABLE
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PUBLIC UBO REGISTERS IN THE EU MEMBER STATES |
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EU member state |
Public UBO Register Y/N |
Name and link |
Access |
Fees |
Infringement proceedings* Y/N |
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Austria |
Y |
Registration |
EUR3 per statement paid in advance using Mastercard, Visa or EPS online payments |
Y |
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Belgium |
Y |
Digital Registration Only nationals and EU citizen |
EUR1.50 per request |
N |
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Bulgaria |
Y |
Open and available in English as well as Bulgarian |
No |
N |
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Croatia |
Y |
Registration Only nationals and EU citizen |
No |
N |
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Cyprus |
Not really – Since June 1, 2022 possible to submit written application for information but no direct public access
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Written application including name and registration number of the company for emailed response |
EUR3.50
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N |
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Czech Republic |
N |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Y |
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Denmark |
Y |
Denmark Central Business Register (Centrale Virksomhedsregister [CVR]) |
Public |
No |
Y |
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Estonia |
Y |
Public |
EUR1 |
Y |
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Finland |
N |
N/A |
Journalists, but not general public |
EUR7 per statement & EUR12 delivery and invoice costs. |
CLEAR HALAL AND STUNNING LABELLING NEEDED TO HELP CONSUMERS CHOOSE MEAT SAY ANIMAL RIGHTS AND HALAL GROUPS
Consumers in Europe need to be offered clear labelling so that they only buy halal meat, especially from animals not pre-stunned before slaughter, if they want to, animal rights organisations and halal groups have told Salaam Gateway.
“We think it would be helpful if all meat was labelled pre-stunned or not so people can make informed choices,” said Dr Nick Palmer, head of Compassion in World Farming UK, an animal welfare campaign and lobbying group: “It is undesirable for non-pre-stunned meat to be accidentally purchased by consumers who would prefer to avoid it.”…
EU TEXTILE HEAD CALLS FOR ACTION TO COMBAT RISING ENERGY PRICES
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.…
CHINA’S ‘GREEN FASHION' PHENOMENON IS REAL AND INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT
Chinese consumers are displaying an increasingly keen interest in sustainable fashion, being aware from personal experience that pollution can have a disastrous impact not only on the overall environment but also on their health. A Chinese University of Hong Kong report in 2018, for instance, concluded air pollution caused an average 1.1 million premature deaths in China.…