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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission, once a keen promoter of biofuels, has now reined in its enthusiasm, admitting that biofuels can emit as much carbon as fossil fuels, proposing reforms encouraging the production of secondary biofuels based on waste matter and algae.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

THE JAPANESE government has signalled that it will relax its rules on beef imports in the early part of 2013.

After hearing the opinions of a 13-strong expert panel, ministers said they would raise the age limit on livestock used to source beef imports to 30 months from the present 20 months.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

THE JAPANESE government is staging a diplomatic campaign aimed at boosting its beef exports worldwide, through securing international recognition for its beef as having "negligible risk" of BSE. It has already filed an application with the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation to confirm the safety of Japanese beef when it next general session meets in May.…

BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has agreed to drop demands to introduce criminal sanctions to pharmaceutical copying similar to those proposed in the stalled Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) within its ongoing free trade negotiations with Canada, Manufacturing Chemist has been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, IN MONTRÉAL

DELEGATES at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)’s 12th Air Navigation Conference have approved a comprehensive plan for sustainably increasing airport traffic management capacity, taking account of developing technologies.

Based on ICAO’s system of block upgrades, delegates backed a focus under the current technology-based Block 0 to reform wake turbulence categorisation, with approach procedures optimising GNSS-based performance-based navigation (PBN) approaches and making traffic flow improvements through arrival and departure runway sequencing management.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

STANDING firmly in the middle of the Wi-Fi, cloud, and M2M revolutions has delivered explosive growth for Openet, an Irish based global leader of real-time transaction management software and services.

The middleware firm’s story and strategy neatly illustrates challenges facing operators and the solutions that innovation can provide.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH consumer revenues flattening across the board for personal mobile services, improving customer experience for business customers is now becoming critical for communications service providers (CSPs) who want market growth and revenue return. Despite making many inroads in the enterprise market beyond legacy connectivity services, however, CSPs are currently having a tough time convincing business customers that they can be trusted to provide services beyond their core offerings.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN CALGARY

A SHORTAGE of nurses in Canada following several years of health care restructuring and hospital downsizing could mean an abundance of opportunities for British professionals, who are willing to make the hop across the pond.

"In certain regions of the country there’s an acute shortage of medical doctors, nurses and other practitioners, and those shortages will only grow as our population ages.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON

Professor Guido Rasi, executive director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has told Manufacturing Chemist of his concerns about the availability of medicines in the European Union (EU).

Speaking in his office at EMA headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf, Professor Rasi said EMA wanted "to see what role we can play and what counsel we can give in respect of the problem of the (drug) shortages."…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE CANADIAN government has confirmed that it will not interfere with the Québec government’s plans to close down the province’s asbestos mining industry, declaring the country’s controversial trade to be at an end. Instead, Ottawa plans on supporting international efforts to list asbestos as a hazardous material under a global agreement to warn importers of potential dangers of the product.…