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EU MUST CONTINUE THE FREE EMISSIONS ALLOWANCES, SAYS ENERGY COMMISSIONER-DESIGNATE
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.…
BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS: SAVING TIME AND IMPROVING SECURITY IN AIRPORT SECURITY
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.…
BRUSSELS GIVES EXTRA FINDS TO AIRCOP AIRPORT ANTI-DRUGS PROJECT
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will pay an additional EUR3 million to the Airport Communication Project (AIRCOP), financing its work to 2016. AIRCOP is run by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and Interpol, and aims to strengthen anti-narcotic detection, interdiction and intelligence capacities in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. …
NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION POLICIES AND TEAM WELCOMED BY NON-FERROUS METAL SECTOR
The European non-ferrous metals industry has welcomed the composition and the general policy thrust of the new European Commission team unveiled by incoming president Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday (Wednesday) but believes that the new team could face difficulties in confirmation hearings.
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EU MUST CONTINUE THE FREE EMISSIONS ALLOWANCES, SAYS ENERGY COMMISSIONER-DESIGNATE
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.…
TTIP TO BOOST TRANSATLANTIC SALES OF PLASTIC MEDICAL DEVICES
THE PLANNED Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and United States is raising concerns about democracy in the EU, but should ease sales of plastic medical devices across the Atlantic, a Philips executive told a Brussels conference on Friday.…
EU-FUNDED PROJECT AIMS TO BRING MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY PROCESSES TO THE MARKET
A RESEARCH project that has received EUR7 million in funding from the European Commission is working to bring more environmentally-friendly processes in the mainstream of the cosmetics industry in Europe. The OPTIBIOCAT (Optimised esterase biocatalysts for cost-effective industrial production) project, which began in 2013, wants to replace resource and energy-intensive chemical processes currently used in the cosmetics industry with less intensive ones, based on enzymes.…
FATCA INCREASES PRESSURE ON CARIBBEAN TO BOOST FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Caribbean jurisdictions may be increasingly signing up to the requirements of America’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) but there is no great enthusiasm about it. Indeed, some bankers fear it could lead to a sharp fall in the region’s charms for investors.…
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – ECUADOR TRADE DEAL OFFERS NEW COCOA SOURCE
ECUADOR, an important confectionery exporter to the European Union (EU), has struck a new bilateral free trade agreement with the EU, which will eliminate tariffs on imports to Europe. The new trade deal is supposed to take effect in late 2016, and until then a system of preferential tariffs will be in place.…
VIETNAM’S COATINGS SECTOR RIDING THE JAPANESE FACTORY INVESTMENT WAVE
VIETNAM’S production of powder coatings and liquid protective coatings has in the past been a small part of the country’s paint and coatings output – but foreign investment maybe about to change that. The country has around 80 coatings manufacturers, who have together manufactured a relatively meagre 30,870 tonnes of these specialist products, generating USD91 million’s worth of revenue in 2012, according to the most recent data made available by market researcher Frost & Sullivan.…