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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH commercial crime becoming ever more international, it makes sense for companies and public organisations to fight its attacks in similar ways, so they can better coordinate their efforts. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (NOTE – ISO USES AMERICAN SPELLINGS FOR ITS NAME) offers management and technical guidance to help.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ISO’s anti-fraud-related standards, doubtless sound very useful, and they are. But sadly, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and as ISO is not funded by taxpayers, it charges for copies of its standards. These don’t come cheap, sometimes running into hundreds of Swiss Francs, but they are usually at least affordable to medium-sized companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A study made for the European Universities Association has found that while universities in Europe are providing a “solid research base” they are failing to extend this into the areas of research applicability and technology knowledge transfer. “Some adjustments are still needed in order to prepare graduates and to adapt their skills to the challenges of the current and expanding regional knowledge economy,” says the report The Rise of Knowledge Regions by the Swiss-based higher education consultant Dr Sybille Reichert which is based on studies of four European city-regions: Barcelona, Brno, Manchester and øresund.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRANCE consumer control authorities have seized two skin lightener products because of concerns that they break the European Union’s (EU) cosmetics directive. One product was an Italy-made prosone gel made by Nichben Pharmaceutical Industries, sold in 30ml bottles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been authorised by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to negotiate a comprehensive energy agreement with Switzerland, which would see the landlocked country participating in liberalised EU electricity markets. A memorandum from the council confirmed that the Swiss would have to sign onto EU electricity market rules, including those on trading power and allowing the purchase by EU operators of Switzerland generators.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

A CAR that can think for its driver is a step nearer reality, thanks to a new European Union (EU)-funded project now underway in Switzerland. The 10-partner BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems) project, co-ordinated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is creating thinking robots that can react in the right way to incomplete information, in the same way that humans and animals do.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared, using its competition authority powers, a proposed airline food catering joint venture at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, between LSG – a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa – and the Swiss company Gate Gourmet.…

BY MARK ROWE, in Munich

NANOTECHNOLOGY is on the verge of transforming the way in which energy production takes place. The use of components such as carbon nanotubes is forcing scientists to reassess the potential yields and efficiency associated with traditional energy production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-EUROPEAN Union (EU) nuclear operators do not have to ask the European Commission permission to export uranium enriched within the EU, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Miguel Poiares Maduro was advising on a complex legal case focusing on the control of Brazilian-owned uranium transferred from Europe to the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-EUROPEAN Union (EU) uranium owners do not have to ask the European Commission permission to export uranium enriched within the EU, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Miguel Poiares Maduro was advising on a complex legal case focusing on the control of Brazilian-owned uranium transferred from Europe to the United States.…