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THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) food and feed safety rapid alert network (RASFF) has warned of a spate of problems involving salmonella contamination of imported meat and meat products. In some instances, consignments were exported from outside the EU, and others, within it.…

CROATIA, which joined the European Union (EU) on July 1, aims to revive its knitting sector following a decline in recent years. While understandably cautious about the next few years, given the current economic troubles in Europe, Croatia plans to capitalise on the potential benefits and opportunities from being an EU member state, focusing on innovation and higher-value products in order to become more competitive.…

MOBILE communication services have become a significant focus for airports worldwide regarding improving passenger experience, especially as the use of interconnected smart devices has boomed. Airports have been building on previous services, such as improving and expanding their wireless internet coverage and working with airlines to allow for flight check-ins via mobile communication devices.…

PROSECUTORS in the USA last week revealed the largest case of alleged credit card fraud in American history. New Jersey US Attorney Paul J Fishman said the alleged fraud has cost companies more than USD 300 million.

The indictment against four Russians and a Ukrainian lists corporate victims including, among others, Citigroup, Dexia Bank Belgium, Euronet, Nasdaq, PNC Financial Services, Visa Jordan, 7-Eleven Inc, Carrefour, JC Penney and JetBlue Airways.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have agreed reforms to the EU’s VAT directive 2006/112/EC enabling member states to swiftly impose reversed charge VAT mechanisms to fight tax fraud. They would act when faced with a sudden onset of large-scale VAT fraud, forcing suppliers to pay the tax, rather than final consumers.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU)-favoured Nabucco pipeline carrying Azerbaijan gas to western Europe will now almost certainly never be built, after Azeri gas consortium Shah Deniz decided to sell its gas to the rival Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). The decision came after Greece announced it would sell its natural gas grid operator DESFA to Azeri state energy company SOCAR: the TAP pipeline would run through Greece to Italy, linking with pipelines in Turkey.…

the Russian nonwovens market expanding, producers and industry experts say supportive government measures and decreased bureaucracy could help domestic companies increase their competitiveness against western rivals.

While the country’s domestic textile market is growing at a slow 1% to 2% annually, nonwovens have posted phenomenal growth of 74% over the three years since 2009, according to estimates of the US-based Discovery Research Group released last July (2012).…

European metal thieves have been targeted by an international law enforcement operation coordinated by European Union (EU) police agency Europol. Its officials said that more than 120 tonnes of stolen copper was confiscated in Italy alone and there were many arrests, with 37 made in just country – Bulgaria.…

The concept of closed loop supply chains sounds a laudable, if possibly Utopian ideal: a virtuous circle of production from cradle to grave and back to cradle again. However, as Ulf Eriksson, product manager for textiles and shoes at the Sweden-government-owned Ecolabelling Sweden (or Svanen – Swedish for swan), pointed out: “A closed loop is a challenge for the garment industry because this is a fashion business.…

EUROPEAN Commission proposed in Strasbourg today (Tues) updates on the four regulations which govern the Single European Sky (SES), trying to push European Union (EU) member countries to implement long-overdue air traffic control reforms.

One proposed amendment would insist that national supervisory air traffic control (ATC) authorities should be completely separated from the organisations providing ATC organisations in all EU countries to increase oversight and safety, Brussels said today.…