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The European Union (EU) must continue awarding free allowances for carbon emissions to energy-intensive industries such as the non-ferrous metals sector, the EU’s energy and climate commissioner-designate Miguel Arias Cañete has said.

Speaking during his confirmation hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels yesterday (October 1), he said that free allowances should be given to efficient industry players through the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) to avoid pushing manufacturing out of Europe to jurisdictions with weaker climate controls.…

ACCOUNTANTS have been asked to comment on European Commission plans to change its anti-trust inquiry procedures to ease access to its files by victims of illegal marketplace collusion. This follows the approval of November’s directive on antitrust damages, helping citizens and companies claim damages if they are victims of infringements of EU antitrust rules, such as cartels or abuses of dominant market positions.…

THE EUROPEAN meat and livestock industry is anticipating the imminent lifting of BSE-related restrictions on European Union (EU) beef exports to Canada, as work on drafting an EU-Canada free trade agreement has concluded.

EU trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht told the European Parliament last week that the EU and Canada had completed their Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which will be unveiled on Friday in Ottawa.…

THE APPAREL manufacturing sector is the third largest reshored sector of all industries in America, after electronics and computers, Reshoring Initiative founder Harry C Moser has told just-style. “As at March 2014, 24 apparel companies have been reshored as against 41 companies of electronics including appliances and 26 computer and electronics firms” since the momentum for reshoring began from 2011, Mr Moser said.…

The European Union’s (EU) commissioner-designate for health and food safety Vytenis Andriukaitis, has promised members of the European Parliament that he will oppose any attempt to lower the bloc’s food safety standards as a consequence of agreeing a free trade deal with the USA.…

For international dairy exporters, India remains an attractive destination, but they face serious challenges related to supply chain and distribution networks. “For an international company to come in and start from scratch, [it] has to struggle with the portfolio, procurement and distribution,” said Siva Nagarajan, managing director of Mother Dairy Fruits & Vegetables Ltd, owned by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB): It would take at least 10 years to build such a network, he told just-food.…

International airports worldwide are working hard to install biometric border controls that they hope will speed passenger movement, while maintaining, or even enhancing security.

A key example of such new installations has been at Ireland’s biggest hub Dublin Airport, where since April 2013, travellers arriving at the 74-year old airport – which handles more than 20 million passengers per year – have had the option of passing through biometric identification gates in the airport’s immigration hall.…

Two years ago Brazil was so worried that its main airports would not be ready for the 2014 World Cup that its government froze plans to build and renovate 270 airfields nationwide. Now that the football fiesta is over and the concessions running key hubs has delivered good results, South America’s powerhouse looked set to start focusing on airports and airfields in smaller cities, especially those that are not state capitals.…

GROWING fears over the widespread use of antibiotics in farm animals helped drive falling demand for imported meat in Sweden in the first half of 2014, but Russia’s EU food trade ban might reverse the trend, say experts. The latest figures from the Swedish board of agriculture (Jordbruksverket) show that imports decreased by 7% for beef and by 6% for pork meat, both year-on-year.…

Kevin McCarthy, the recently appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Microsoft’s Consumer Channels Group, is planning to use his expertise in manufacturing and managing consumer space to spin energised growth into what is, as he puts it, is “already an amazing business model.”…