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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states search for a comprehensive withholding tax solution on preventing tax avoidance via savings accounts, the Council of Ministers has reformed how national tax authorities cooperate to fight fraud. The updated directive allows them to conduct simultaneous control checks on taxpayers operating in several countries of the EU, sharing information obtained.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed technology that could help fight a major garden industry pest, detecting and identifying the presence of black vine weevils through the computerised interpretation of their bodily vibrations. James R. Fisher, entomologist from the USA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), has developed a wand-like microphone that can be inserted onto a large nail placed at the root in nursery pots.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-funded research consortium is producing biodegradable plastics from whey separated from milk curd during cheese-making. WHEYPOL is synthesising the polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) generated from whey. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5316860&CFID=83049&CFTOKEN=71957927…

BY EDWARD PETERS
DEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing – the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – is tantamount to treason.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project is developing an integrated sales, production and storage system for small-and-medium sized timber businesses, which have difficulty serving a number of niche markets simultaneously. The IN-TIME project involves eight companies covering the whole timber supply chain, coordinated by UK software design house MJC2.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from European Union (EU) power federation Eurelectric has said that when regulators or governments impose public service obligations under the 2003 electricity directive, utilities “should be granted fair compensation.”

The group adds that such obligations should be organised “in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner”, using “market-based mechanisms.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from European Union (EU) power federation Eurelectric has said that when regulators or governments impose public service obligations under the 2003 electricity directive, utilities “should be granted fair compensation.”

The group adds that such obligations should be organised “in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner”, using “market-based mechanisms.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MONACO is all about money. A glamorous speck of high-rises looming above the French Riviera, it is famous for wealthy glamour, tax exiles, racing-cars and gambling. Given this cocktail, it is hardly surprising that this, Europe’s second smallest country by geography, has attracted allegations that it has been the site of money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded research consortium is developing an industrial system for producing biodegradable plastics from whey, separated from milk curd during cheese-making. Around 30 per cent of the 50 million tonnes of whey produced in Europe annually is currently discarded, and the Euro 1.6 million WHEYPOL project is creating process to synthesise polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) generated from whey into plastic.…