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A GLOBAL market-based system controlling civil aviation greenhouse gas emissions will be developed by 2016, the ruling assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed. Member states, meeting in Montréal, Canada, said the new system should be up and running by 2020.…

THE EUROPEAN Parliament wants to see official controls in the food chain focusing more on fraud prevention and see inspectors act more like policemen in the wake of the horsemeat scandal and other food fraud cases, according to a draft report released today.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to recommend only partial country-of-origin labelling for products containing processed meats in a report set to be released by the end of October, globalmeatnews has been told.

The report, which is still to be finalised, is expected to recommend that such labelling would only mention the country where a source animal was finished and slaughtered.…

THE NEW terminal at the principal international airport in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, Ministro Pistarini International, was inaugurated in March, increasing its total capacity to 13 million passengers – last year (2012) it struggled to accommodate 8.8 million passengers.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) regulators are tangling with the difficulty of tightening rules-of-origin for meat products, given the potentially significant number of manufacturing stages required. The European Commission and European Parliament have been considering their response to the horse meat labelling scandal.…

Telecommunications companies are at a fork in the road. With so many third party services and innovations available – either as competitors or partners – they have essentially two choices: either they focus on delivering these services as efficient infrastructure companies, or they team up with the burgeoning array of data and comms-based applications and content systems, becoming a diversified retailer of electronic services.…

COAL might be regarded as the oldest energy source going, but it is still currently the world’s largest long-term source of electricity. It fuels around 40% of global electricity production, according to the UK-based World Energy Council, a United Nations (UN) accredited body representing some 3,000 private and public-sector member organisations across 90 nations.…

China has many thousands of textile printing companies. So the ability to stand out from the crowd and attract high-end clients, who are probably innovative and environmentally conscious, has been a focus for the Changzhou-based Dongheng Group. 

It has found the answer in digital printing.…

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is seeking special powers to combat the country’s deep-seated epidemic of corruption; this while the country is gripped with severe economic problems, marked by shortages of consumer goods and a lack of foreign currency vital to the business sector.…

DIGITAL innovation and exports dominated discussion at the 31st edition of Liber 2013, Spain’s leading book fair, which ended on Sunday (October 6) in Madrid after drawing 10,000 visitors, compared with 6,000 last year in Barcelona.

And while 450 exhibitors and 300-plus international buyers almost universally framed their comments in terms of recession, robust overseas sales and advances in e-publishing made for a slightly more positive mood than last year.…