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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BRITISH tyre industry is pushing for a planned European tyre labelling system to be amended so that useful point-of-sale information about safety and noise is made available in showrooms. The problem with the current proposals approved by the European Parliament last week (22-04) is it focuses on labelling, said John Dorken, the chief executive of the British Tyre Manufacturers Association.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

REFORMS have been approved by the European Parliament to a revised European Union (EU)-wide ecolabel system, making it tougher for clothing and textile producers to secure regarding the use of environmentally damaging chemicals. An informal agreement with EU ministers means that parliament’s decision yesterday (April 2) will probably fast-track the changes through the EU legislative machine.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

LEADING cigarette makers in the USA are changing their marketing materials and package labelling in response to a November decision by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to rescind its official guidance on the Cambridge Filter Method, which had been in place since 1966.…

By Emma Jackson

As the recession digs deeper and major accounting scandals bubble to the surface, business and accounting teaching and training programmes across the globe are scrambling to endow a sense of ethics in their students.

Ethics have been largely ignored in many prestigious business schools, says one accountings professor at Australia’s Deakin University, Steven Dellaportas, who argues students aren’t equipped to deal with ethical dilemmas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHILE the European Union (EU) has not exactly fallen out of love with biofuels, it has to be said that the relationship has become more complicated since the EU started worrying about the environmental problems associated with the sector.…

BY MARK GODFREY

WITH the global recession raging across most of the world, Bangladesh’s knitwear sector is maintaining a strong commercial position and looks better geared to survive the economic downturn than some of its regional competitors. Orders have only dipped marginally say local knitwear producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Spirits Organisation (CEPS) has warned the European Commission not to push European Union (EU) member states into raising alcohol prices to control problem drinking. Its comments follow the release of a Commission report ‘the affordability of alcoholic beverages in the European Union’ which concluded the "affordability of alcohol does impact on levels of harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption".…

BY MARK ROWE

EVEN with the technological advances of recent years, fog and other poor weather conditions can still snarl up civil air traffic. But researchers from a project backed by the European Commission claim to be on the verge of commercialising a new traffic control system that will speed up airport movements in bad visibility.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMANY’S DHL has become the first global logistics company to join the UN Environment Programme’s Climate Neutral Network, which promotes green transport. DHL operates a ‘GOGREEN’ system that assesses carbon emissions created by a customer’s shipment and suggests certified offsets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN and MONICA DOBIE

MAYBE the best sign that renewable energies have hit the mainstream is that they now have their very own international organisation: the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Launched in Bonn, Germany, this January, with the support of 76 countries, including its host nation, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, the roster of signatory nations has since been swollen by India and Belarus.…