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Forward-thinking digital strategies and ‘bringing the book to the buyer’ were the focus of Liber 2014, Spain’s leading book fair. Alternatively held in Madrid and Barcelona, this year’s fair saw 450 publishers, exporters, printers and related editorial services set up stands in Barcelona’s Fira trade fair buildings.…

Manoeuvres by the UK’s Home Office to take over the economic crime work carried out by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) have been rebuffed by the country’s attorney general in the House of Commons.

Jeremy Wright told MPs last week (Wednesday) the SFO’s “unique model” of combining investigators, lawyers and other experts was “well worth defending” after he was questioned about an alleged power grab by home secretary Theresa May.…

The US, Germany, Britain and Switzerland are the only countries among 41 signatories to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development’s (OECD) 1997 Anti-Bribery Convention to vigorously investigate and prosecute firms that bribe foreign officials.

So says anti-corruption organisation Transparency International in the latest update of Exporting Corruption, its tenth such annual report, covering the years 2010 through 2013.…

WORKWEAR producers know that their products must be reliable. And one excellent way to demonstrate that is ensuring and declaring that their production and materials are in line with those recommended by national and international standards organisations.

In the competitive American market, development organisations such as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colourists (AATCC) constantly update workwear-related safety and testing standards. …

THE EUROPEAN Union’s executive, the European Commission has threatened Germany with legal action unless it orders its automakers to comply with EU legislation covering mobile air conditioning systems in motor vehicles. If Berlin refuses and the case goes against it in the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Germany could end up paying massive recurring fines of thousands of Euros a day, until it complies.…

EXPERTS on China’s textile and apparel industry say that international brands must take increasing care to ensure their sourcing is environmentally and socially responsible, with tightening government restrictions anticipated.

Their comments to just-style come after the release of a China National Textile and Apparel Council’s (CNTAC) 2013-2014 social responsibility report of the textile industry, released last month (September).…

As the global apparel sector searches for more eco-friendly fibres and fabrics, innovative developments are increasingly focusing on more sustainable and often unusual alternative feedstocks.
Companies are being encouraged to innovate also by recent high cotton prices and a growing awareness that tighter control of supply chains can help keep costs down in general.…

Transnational medicine mafias are exploiting the differences between the economic and healthcare models of socialist Venezuela and its free market neighbour Colombia to run a thriving trade in contraband pharmaceuticals.
Every year, networks of smugglers, corrupt officials, and shady businessmen move millions of dollars worth of contraband, expired and false drugs between the two countries, undermining the legal pharmaceutical sector and posing a grave health threat on both sides of the border.…

THE EUROPEAN pharmaceutical industry’s fast-track approach to investing in the Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been welcomed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), as progress in fighting the disease in west Africa starts being made. Speaking to members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in Brussels on Wednesday (Nov 5), the WHO regional director for Europe Zsuzsanna Jakab said that although in the past, EVD was considered a disease of poverty and therefore commercial interests and benefits were unclear, today that attitude had changed.…

The German government believes that a Europe-wide system for the retention of passenger flight data “may have added value for counterterrorism” and is prepared to support an EU directive to this effect, a spokesperson for the German federal internal affairs ministry has told Jane’s Airport Review.…